Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    1.1 pandemonium! Amir has delivered first ball and the crowd has erupted. Full ball pushed across off stump. Guptill has played it onto his stumps. Did he expect it to swing back in? It didn't and by the end of this sequence, his hands are so far away from the body as he tries to drive through the off side. Amir wheels away into the leg side. What a start 5/1
    6.2 taken! Haris holds on at first slip! Shaheen's extra bounce and Munro's casual swipe have resulted in the second wicket. Length and outside off, angled bat does him no good on this occasion 24/2
    26.2 has he got him? He's got him! Shadab Khan has done it! Length ball, dipping outside off and drawing Williamson forward. he stabs at it away from the body as it turns and gets big off the surface. A faint edge on it and keeper holds on. Lovely bowling but also uncharacteristically loose from Williamson, who was getting a bit weary outside off in the last 15-20 minutes. Still, it takes some doing to get him out there and Shadab has produced the perfect delivery. Just a lovely pace on that 83/5
    8.6 he's held on to a blinder! Sarfraz with a gigantic leap to his right, one-handed! This is HUGE for Pakistan. This is the partnership they needed to break. Shaheen with that discipline again. Gets it a length in the corridor, gets the extra lift and Taylor's nervous forward prod has picked up an edge that flies towards first slip. Pakistan's captain doesn't let it get that far 38/3
    12.3 gone, this is much too good for Latham. Shaheen's on fire. Pitched on a length just outside off stump, and shapes away ever so slightly, taking the outside edge of Latham's bat as he attempts yet another defensive stroke. Never quite looked like getting a move on, and now New Zealand are four down. It might really be on! 46/4
    not out
    97
    112
    158
    5
    3
    86.60
    47.4 this looks out. Run-out appeal sent upstairs. CDG walking off already. Guided a slower short ball to third man's left. Came back for a second that wasn't there. At least not for him. Sarfraz is in a poor position, right in front of the stumps, when he gathers this. But there's so much time to turn around, parry it onto the stumps and catch CDG short. A tame end to a very important innings 215/6
    not out
    5
    5
    12
    0
    0
    100.00
    Extras
    9 (b 2, lb 3, w 4)
    TOTAL
    237/6 (50 Overs, RR: 4.74)
    Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Martin Guptill, 1.1 ov), 2-24 (Colin Munro, 6.2 ov), 3-38 (Ross Taylor, 8.6 ov), 4-46 (Tom Latham, 12.3 ov), 5-83 (Kane Williamson, 26.2 ov), 6-215 (Colin de Grandhomme, 47.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Mohammad Hafeez702203.14251000
    Mohammad Amir1006716.70319120
    Shaheen Shah Afridi1032832.80432000
    Imad Wasim301705.6671000
    Shadab Khan1004314.30321200
    Wahab Riaz1005505.50304120
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    10.2 Guptill you absolute monster! Big strides forward, big limbs reaching out, but the grace of a much smaller man as he dives and gets his fingers under this at point! And this following an absolute scorcher of a bouncer from Lockie, jumping up at Imam's grille from middle stump. Remember, he'd caused him problems in the UAE, even hit him on the head not so long ago. Goes straight for the bouncer option. Imam just fends at it with no clue and it pings off the shoulder of the bat. Just brutal fast bowling 44/2
    2.6 and caps the over with a wicket! Wasn't the best delivery, in truth. Dragged it down to the legside and didn't get the swing he was hoping. But Fakhar, who wanted to loft it over midwicket, found the leading edge and saw, with horror, the ball going to point instead, where Guptill's bucket-like hands sent him on his way 19/1
    not out
    101
    127
    198
    11
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    79.52
    24.5 and that's the most Hafeez way to get out! The man who holed out to Aaron Finch and lost his wicket to Aiden Markram now charges down the pitch to Williamson, and smashes it right down cow corner's throat. In the xact spot he gave it away against Australia 110/3
    48.3 is that gone? The third umpire is involved! Slower ball that Babar deadbatted but Haris absolutely hared through for one. He's short of his ground! Haris falls for a well-made 68 236/4
    not out
    5
    3
    4
    1
    0
    166.66
    Extras
    7 (w 7)
    TOTAL
    241/4 (49.1 Overs, RR: 4.9)
    Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Fakhar Zaman, 2.6 ov), 2-44 (Imam-ul-Haq, 10.2 ov), 3-110 (Mohammad Hafeez, 24.5 ov), 4-236 (Haris Sohail, 48.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    TA Boult1004814.80427100
    MJ Henry702503.57272000
    LH Ferguson8.105016.12267040
    C de Grandhomme201206.0061000
    MJ Santner1003803.80372100
    JDS Neesham302006.6693010
    KS Williamson803914.87244010
    C Munro10909.0011010

Match Notes

Pakistan 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st19Fakhar ZamanImam-ul-Haq
2nd25Babar AzamImam-ul-Haq
3rd66Mohammad HafeezBabar Azam
4th126Haris SohailBabar Azam
5th5Sarfaraz AhmedBabar Azam