Pakistan scraps black caps in the last Twenty20 at AMI Stadium, Christchurch. After giving up the series by losing first two T20’s; Pakistan fights back strongly to make an impression that the series will not be a butter cookie for New Zealand.
A convincing victory by 103 runs will certainly boost the confidence of the tourists which were going absolutely low after a streak of losses in two T20’s international and a warm-up T20 against Auckland.
Black caps were outclassed comprehensively in batting, bowling and fielding. Pakistan team never look like short of spark in a totally controlled thriller. Impressive performances from batsmen to bowlers made Kiwi’s life difficult from start to finish.
Shahid Afridi, leading from the front, claimed four wickets at the cost of just 14 runs and a brilliant strike to run out Dean Brownlie. Top four batsmen didn’t bother to disturb the scorers and gone back to pavilion with ducks. Scott Styris was the only Kiwi batsmen who showed some kind of resistance and struck quite quick 45 off 34 balls. Nathan McCullum was the second batsman to score a double figure other than Styris, with 10 off 10 balls.
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first after a miserable result of the second Twenty20 international. Openers provided a good start of 81 runs in quite quick time. Youngster Ahmed Shahzad proved his selection fair with an impressive knock of 54 runsoff 34 balls. After Muhammad Hafeez, who scored 34 off 23, Pakistan had a bit hard time when three more wickets down for just adding 25 runs. Abdur Razzaq showed his class with a blistering knock of 34 off just 11 balls.
Abdur Razzaq was nominated for man-of-the-match with his all-round performance, as he claimed three wickets in his devastating attack.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment