Pakistan lost by 73 runs against New Zealand in the first ODI
……… (Asghar Ali Mubarak)……
Pakistan lost by 73 runs against New Zealand in the first ODI, New Zealand take a 1-0 lead in the series. It should be noted that New Zealand had previously won the five-match T20 series played between the two countries in New Zealand by 1-4.
In the match played in the city of Napier, New Zealand, Pakistan cricket team captain Muhammad Rizwan won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat first.
New Zealand scored 344 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. Mark Chapman scored a century for New Zealand.
He scored 132 runs off 111 balls. Pakistani-origin batsman Mohammad Arsalan Abbas, who made his ODI debut for New Zealand, scored 52 runs off 26 balls, which included three sixes and three fours.
Mark Chapman scored the most runs for New Zealand, but the talk on social media is of Mohammad Abbas, who made his ODI debut. Mohammad Arsalan Abbas, who played his first ODI, was born in Lahore,
Pakistan in 2003. His father, Azhar Abbas, is also a first-class cricketer who has played first-class cricket in both Pakistan and New Zealand.
Talking about his innings after the match, Abbas said that when I came on the field to play, I could hear the applause of the fans and I was only thinking about my father’s hard work.
The 21-year-old Lahore-born cricketer scored a half-century against Pakistan off just 24 balls and helped New Zealand post such a huge score. For Pakistan,
Irfan Khan took three wickets for 51 runs in five overs, while Haris Rauf and Akif Javed took two wickets each. Pakistan’s batting started well and the openers put on an 83-run partnership. Opener Usman Khan was dismissed for 38 runs off 33 balls and after just five runs in the total, second opener Abdullah Shafiq also got out. After this,
Babar Azam and Mohammad Zwan put on 78 runs in a third-wicket partnership. Captain Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for 30 runs. Babar Azam scored 78 off 83 balls, which was his first half-century in ODIs since 2016. Pakistan’s last six wickets fell for just 22 runs.
The second most outstanding batsman from Pakistan was Salman Ali Agha, he scored 58 off 48 balls. It may be recalled that during the match, Salman Ali Agha dropped Mark Chapman’s catch off Muhammad Ali when he was playing for just five.
Champion scored 132 runs in this match. In addition, Naseem Shah also dropped a catch. Mark Champion was declared the player of the match for his brilliant century.
