The New Zealand team defeated Pakistan badly in the second match of the three -match ODI International Series. With this, Pakistan’s team also lost this series. In this match, New Zealand defeated Pakistan by a margin of 84 runs.
Pakistan lost by 75 runs in the first match of the series. No main batsman of Pakistan went on in this match. Among the tail batsmen, Faheem Ashraf and Naseem Shah scored half -centuries. For New Zealand, Mitchell Hey scored 99 runs and Ben Sears took 35 wickets.
Talking about this match, Pakistan team captain Mohammad Rizwan won the toss and chose bowling. In such a situation, the New Zealand team came out to bat first. Captain Rizwan’s decision proved wrong when he had to wait for more than 50 runs for the first wicket.
Pakistani bowlers got 8 wickets in this match, but the host Kiwi team managed to reach close to 300 on the strength of small partnerships. New Zealand scored 292 runs losing 8 wickets in 50 overs. For New Zealand, he was successful in playing an unbeaten innings of 99 runs, while Muhammad Abbas played innings of 41 runs.
Nick Kelly also scored 31 runs. Sufiyan Mukim and Muhammad Wasim Jr. got 2-2 wickets from Pakistan. After this, when the Pakistan team started chasing the target of 293 runs, he collapsed like cards. Abdullah Shafiq’s wicket fell on a total score of 6 runs. Babar Azam kept going on seven. Imam ul Haq returned to the pavilion for 9 runs.
After this, the responsibility was on captain Mohammad Rizwan and Vice -captain Salman Ali Aga, but there was a 22 -run partnership between the two. Salman Ali was dismissed for a total score of 31 runs. After a run, Mohammad Rizwan also continued. In this way, the score was 5 wickets for 32 runs.
The defeat was decided from here, because the coming batsmen neither had that much experience nor could they reach 300 in them. Faheem Ashraf (73) and Naseem Shah (51) tried to reduce the gap of shameful defeat by scoring half -centuries. In this match, Pakistan’s team collapsed for 208 runs and lost the match by 84 runs. Pakistan also lost the 3 -match series.