3rd T20: Hasan Nawaz’s lightning century, Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 9 wickets
3rd T20: Hasan Nawaz’s lightning century, Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 9 wickets
( Asghar Ali Mubarak )
Thanks to Hasan Nawaz’s lightning century, Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 9 wickets in the third T20 International,
It should be noted that New Zealand had defeated Pakistan by 9 wickets in the first T20 and by 5 wickets in the second T20. Pakistan achieved the target of 205 runs in 16 overs, captain Salman Ali Agha also scored a brilliant half-century.
In the third T20 played in Auckland, Pakistan made a brilliant start to the innings in pursuit of the target of 205 runs. Mohammad Haris and Hassan Nawaz demonstrated lightning play and provided the team with a good start of 67 runs.
The Pakistani openers scored 51 runs in the first 4 overs. Mohammad Haris scored 41 runs in 20 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 4 fours. After playing, he was caught by the wicketkeeper off Jacob Duffy, after which captain Salman Ali Agha fully supported the young Hassan Nawaz who came to the crease.
Pakistan achieved the target of 205 runs on the last ball of the 16th over thanks to Hassan Nawaz’s stormy innings of 105 runs with 7 sixes and 10 fours. Captain Salman Ali Agha also showed excellent batting and played an unbeaten innings of 51 runs off 31 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 6 fours.
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl, but in the first over, thanks to Haris Rauf’s brilliant catch off Shaheen Afridi’s ball, New Zealand’s first wicket fell for a total score of 3 runs.
However, the hosts put up an aggressive display and scored 40 runs for the second wicket, after which Tim Seifert was dismissed for 19 runs off Haris Rauf off Salman Ali Agha off a total of 43.
New Zealand’s third wicket fell for a total of 98 runs, when Daryl Mitchell was caught by Haris Rauf off Shadab Khan for 17 runs, while James Neesham was caught lbw by Abbas Afridi for 3 runs.
Mark Chapman played a stormy innings of 94 runs off 44 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 11 fours, but he fell victim to a nervous ninety and was caught by Shadab Khan off Shaheen Shah Afridi for a total of 141.
New Zealand’s sixth and seventh wickets fell for a total of 164, Mitchell and Kelly Jamieson were clean bowled by Abrar Ahmed.
Mitchell Bracewell was bowled clean by Haris Rauf for 31 runs on a total score of 193. The ninth player to be dismissed was Ish Sodhi, who was caught by Haris Rauf off Mohammad Haris, while Jacob Duffy was caught by Irfan Khan off Abbas Afridi for 2 runs.
Two changes were made to the Pakistan team for the crucial match, dropping Mohammad Ali and Jehandad Khan and adding Abrar Ahmed and Abbas Afridi to the team.
Pakistani playing XI ; The Pakistani team for the third T20 consisted of Mohammad Haris, Hassan Nawaz, captain Salman Ali Agha, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Shadab Khan, Abdul Samad, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Abrar Ahmed and Haris Rauf.
New Zealand Playing XI ; The New Zealand team consisted of Tim Seifert, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Mitch Hay, Michael Bracewell, Ish Sodhi, Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy and Ben Sear.
