| 1.6 : 1.6: Imad Wasim to Martin Guptill, FOUR! Nicely cut away. Guptill gets the first boundary of the innings. Short and outside off. Guptill rocks on the back foot and cuts it through point. The ball races away to the boundary. 7 runs coming off the over, a good one for New Zealand. |
| 2.5 : 2.5: Shaheen Afridi to Daryl Mitchell, FOUR! Mitchell gets his first boundary of the game now. Some width offered and Mitchell gets on top of this one. Short and outside off. Mitchell hangs back and cuts it through cover for a boundary. |
| 3.6 : 3.6: Imad Wasim to Martin Guptill, FOUR! Nicely played. Guptill manages to sneak a boundary at the very last ball of the over. Tossed up, around off. Guptill goes back and punches it through cover-point. The ball beats the man and races away to the boundary. |
| 4.1 : 4.1: Hasan Ali to Daryl Mitchell, SIX! BANG! Daryl Mitchell picks it up nicely. Full-length ball, on off. Mitchell stands tall, gets under it and smokes it over the long on fence for a biggie. |
| 4.6 : 4.6: Hasan Ali to Martin Guptill, FOUR! Guptill is on a roll here. He finds a boundary again on the last delivery of the bowler. Short ball, outside off. Guptill stays back and cuts it over backward point for a boundary. But wait, the umpire says the bowler has overstepped, it is a no ball. There is one ball to go then which will be a Free Hit. |
| 5.2 : 5.2: Haris Rauf to Martin Guptill, OUT! Cleaned up! Martin Guptill looked edgy out there and now has to depart early. Martin Guptill makes room and Haris Rauf follows him with a length ball. Guptill looks to whip it on the leg side but is through his shot a bit early. The ball crashes into his pads and goes onto hit the leg stump. The bails come off and Haris Rauf has drawn first blood. |
| 5.6 : 5.6: Haris Rauf to Kane Williamson, FOUR! Easy pickings for Kane Williamson. Angled in at the pads and Williamson just helps it past the short fine leg fielder and the ball races away into the fence. New Zealand are 42/1 at the end of the Powerplay. |
| 8.1 : 8.1: Imad Wasim to Daryl Mitchell, SIX! Just over the ropes. On off and it seems like Daryl Mitchell is beaten in flight. Mitchell still goes after it and the ball goes flat, to the right of long off and clears the boundary rope. Shaheen Afridi puts in the dive but in vain. Maximum! |
| 8.2 : 8.2: Imad Wasim to Daryl Mitchell, OUT! CAUGHT! Daryl Mitchell looks to go back-to-back but instead holes out to long on. This is a bit short and on middle. Daryl Mitchell just looks to hit through the line of the ball. Mitchell mistimes it badly and the ball goes straight to Fakhar Zaman at long on, who takes the catch well inside the boundary rope. Imad Wasim gets his reward for some fine bowling. |
| 9.1 : 9.1: Mohammad Hafeez to James Neesham, OUT! CAUGHT! James Neesham didn't occupy the crease for long. Mohammad Hafeez strikes off his first delivery as he gets rid of the dangerous Neesham. This one is tossed up, around off stump. Neesham looks to flick it across and clear the short boundary at mid-wicket. The ball goes off the toe end of the bat and Fakhar Zaman runs to his left from the cow corner fence to take a nice running catch. James Neesham will be hugely disappointed with that shot. |
| 11.4 : 11.4: Mohammad Hafeez to Kane Williamson, FOUR! Nicely played. Flatter and on off. Williamson goes back and pulls it through mid-wicket and finds a boundary. |
| 11.5 : 11.5: Mohammad Hafeez to Kane Williamson, SIX! All the way! OH MY! Kane Williamson comes out with a one-handed sixer. What a shot. Full and on off. Williamson comes forwards and lifts it towards long on. His one hand comes off the bat as he connects the ball. The ball clears the long on fence easily. |
| 12.4 : 12.4: Shadab Khan to Devon Conway, MISFIELD AND FOUR! Floated, full and on off. Conway sweeps it towards deep square leg. Asif Ali misfield in the deep and the ball ends up in the boundary. The entire crowd in the stadium has their eyes on Asif Ali. |
| 12.5 : 12.5: Shadab Khan to Devon Conway, FOUR! Back-to-back boundaries! Conway connects much better this time. Full and on off. Conway kneels forward and sweeps it through square leg. The ball reaches the fence way before Ali could comes across to his right to make the stop. |
| 12.6 : 12.6: Shadab Khan to Devon Conway, FOUR! Conway is flying at the moment. Three boundaries in a row to end the over. Tossed up, full and around off. Conway reverse-sweeps it past backward point. The ball races away to the boundary. |
| 13.1 : 13.1: Hasan Ali to Kane Williamson, OUT! RUN OUT! Kane Williamson has to walk back after a huge mix-up in the middle. The Kiwi skipper gives away his wicket here. Short ball, outside off. Williamson looks to cut it away. But he gets an inside edge and the ball rolls out to the off side. Williamson ventured out of the crease looking for a single, but Conway sends him back immediately. There was never a single there. Hasan Ali collects the ball quickly and scores a direct hit at the striker's en |
| 16.6 : 16.6: Shaheen Afridi to Glenn Phillips, FOUR! First boundary in sometime for New Zealand and they desperately needed it. In the slot and Glenn Phillips has absolutely drilled this one back past the bowler for a boundary. 9 off the over. |
| 17.1 : 17.1: Haris Rauf to Devon Conway, OUT! CAUGHT! Devon Conway got himself in and has thrown his wicket away at the death. A length ball, on leg stump. Conway picks it up and lifts it high towards the mid-wicket fence. Conway doesn't get any distance on it and the skipper, Babar Azam settles under it to take a fine catch. Haris Rauf has his second wicket and New Zealand under even more pressure now. |
| 17.3 : 17.3: Haris Rauf to Glenn Phillips, OUT! CAUGHT! This one was travelling but the catch is taken. This is in the slot a bit, on off and Glenn Phillips looks to hit across the line. To be fair, Phillips hits it really well but hits it flat. Hasan Ali runs in from the mid-wicket fence and takes a brilliant tumbling catch as the ball was always dipping on him. Both set batters are out and New Zealand lose their sixth. Haris Rauf has bowled with fire today. |
| 18.5 : 18.5: Shaheen Afridi to Tim Seifert, FOUR! Wow! A yorker, on middle. Tim Seifert walks right across his stumps and sweeps it right off the middle stump and into the backward square leg fence. |
| 18.6 : 18.6: Shaheen Afridi to Tim Seifert, OUT! CAUGHT! The change of pace has done the trick for Shaheen Afridi and he has his first wicket of the match. Slower one, on middle and angled across. Tim Seifert gives himself room and looks to swing across the line. In the end, Seifert gets a top edge which loops up towards backward point. Mohammad Hafeez takes the simplest of catches over there. |
| 19.5 : 19.5: Haris Rauf to Mitchell Santner, FOUR! Full again, around off and at 149 kph. Mitchell Santner makes room and creams this one through cover for a much needed boundary. |
| 19.6 : 19.6: Haris Rauf to Mitchell Santner, OUT! Cleaned up! Haris Rauf gets his fourth wicket and finishes the innings off in style. The change of pace again works wonders. This is on a length, around middle and is slowed up. Mitchell Santner takes a big swing at it across the line but gets undone by the lack of pace. The ball goes onto hit top of off stump and Haris Rauf ends with figures of 4-0-22-4. New Zealand FINISH WITH 134/8! |
| 0.3 : 0.3: Mitchell Santner to Babar Azam, FOUR! Babar Azam is off the mark in style. Santner gives it some air and flights it up, outside off. Babar Azam lifts it over extra cover and picks up a boundary. |
| 2.1 : 2.1: Trent Boult to Mohammad Rizwan, FOUR! Stand and deliver from Mohammad Rizwan. Length, on top of off. Rizwan just hangs back and short arm jabs it in front of square on the leg side and picks up a boundary. |
| 3.4 : 3.4: Tim Southee to Mohammad Rizwan, FOUR! All the pressure is released as Tim Southee bowls a poor delivery. Southee goes wider of the crease and angles it into the body but the ball ends up down the leg side. Mohammad Rizwan stands tall and pulls it behind square on the leg side for a boundary. |
| 4.1 : 4.1: Trent Boult to Mohammad Rizwan, FOUR! What a shot. Good-length ball, around off. Rizwan hangs back and guides it past backward point. The ball races away to the fence. |
| 5.1: Tim Southee to Babar Azam, OUT! KNOCKS HIM OVER! 100th T20I wicket for Tim Southee and what a wicket it is and what a time to get it! His team was in desperate need of a wicket, they were keeping ti tight but they needed a breakthrough and he has got the big fish, Babar Azam. The crowd here has gone silent! Once again it is that length, just ahead of a shorter length and behind a good length. Southee bowls a cutter. Azam looks to pull which is not a good idea on this surface. The ball stays |
| 6.2 : 6.2: Mitchell Santner to Mohammad Rizwan, FOUR! That is a handy boundary! Much-needed! Not a good delivery from Santner. It is down the leg side. Rizwan sweeps and it goes fine to the fine leg fence. |
| 8.3 : 8.3: Ish Sodhi to Fakhar Zaman, SIX! All the way! This one is over the stands. Zaman gets into the attack now. Full and on off. Zaman gets on one knee and slog-sweeps it over the mid-wicket fence for a biggie. |
| 8.6 : 8.6: Ish Sodhi to Fakhar Zaman, OUT! LBW! New Zealand take the review and gets rid of Fakhar Zaman pretty early on. Flatter, around middle and leg. Zaman stays inside the crease and looks to defend it out but misses. The ball takes the pads and rolls out. Sodhi appeals for lbw but the umpire is unmoved. Kane Williamson takes it upstairs. The UltraEdge shows no bat is involved. The Ball Tracker shows three reds and Zaman holes out now. Can New Zealand build on this momentum now? |
| 9.3 : 9.3: James Neesham to Mohammad Hafeez, SIX! SMACK! What a shot that is! Wow! That is the first ball he faced. It is a length delivery outside off, Hafeez stands tall and hits it well over the cover fence for a biggie. |
| 10.6 : 10.6: Mitchell Santner to Mohammad Hafeez, OUT! TAKEN! IS THAT SUPERMAN? NO! THAT IS DEVON CONWAY WITH AN ABSOLUTE BEAUTY OF A TAKE! WOW! Timely wicket for the Kiwis as the momentum just started to shift and the move to get Santner on has worked wonders. Hafeez will feel a touch unfortunate. He had creamed that! Skips down the track, gets to the pitch of it and places it wide of long off. It seems to be destined for a boundary but Conway runs there, dives and takes a stunner. This game is just s |
| 11.3 : 11.3: Ish Sodhi to Mohammad Rizwan, FOUR! Pulled hard and into the fence! That is a half tracker! Short and on middle, Rizwan pulls it hard through mid-wicket. In the gap and races away to the fence. Not good bowling and Rizwan pounces on it. |
| 11.4 : 11.4: Ish Sodhi to Mohammad Rizwan, OUT! LBW! That is plumb and the main man is out of here! This is a huge blow and the fans know it here as there is pin drop silence now! Flatter and on middle, this one skids through. Rizwan goes back to flick but misses. It hits him on the pads. An appeal and the finger is raised. Rizwan knows he is a goner but still walks up to his partner to have a word. No review. New Zealand well and truly on top now. |
| 14.4: Trent Boult to Imad Wasim, FOUR! Slapped away! That is a pressure relieving boundary! It is short and a slower one. Imad Wasim waits and then slams it over covers for a boundary. Much-needed. |
| 14.5 : 14.5: Trent Boult to Imad Wasim, OUT! LBW! Once agian that is a poor stroke by Imad! Not sure why he would try that! It is on the stumps, a seam-up ball. Wasim looks to play the reverse sweep but misses. It hits him on the pad. An appeal and the finger is raised. Wasim starts limping off but then thinks of a review, time is up though and he goes back. |
| 14.6 : 14.6: Trent Boult to Asif Ali, FOUR! That is some way to get off the mark! Length and outside off, Asif plays it nice and late and guides it through backward point. Boundary. End of an action packed over. 44 needed in 30 now. |
| 15.5 : 15.5: Ish Sodhi to Shoaib Malik, FOUR! This might release some pressure. Full and on middle. Malik dances down the track and lifts it towards long on. The ball ends up in the boundary. |
| 16.2 : 16.2: Tim Southee to Asif Ali, SIX! BANG! Ali is getting his side back in the game. He hits it down the ground. Slower ball, half volley, around off. Ali powers it down the ground for a maximum at long off. |
| 16.3 : 16.3: Tim Southee to Asif Ali, SIX! Ali is on a roll. Back-to-back maximums. Touch short and on off. Ali hangs back and powers it over the long on fence for another biggie. Pakistan are right back in it. |
| 17.1 : 17.1: Mitchell Santner to Shoaib Malik, FOUR! Santner is brought back and Malik is on the charge straightaway. Short and outside off. Malik hangs on the back foot and cuts it through point for a boundary. This match is swinging from one end to the other. |
| 17.3 : 17.3: Mitchell Santner to Shoaib Malik, SIX! HIGH AND HANDSOME! You can't let Malik come down the ground. Tossed up, on off. Malik dances down the track and smokes it over the long off fence for a maximum. |
| 18.3: Trent Boult to Asif Ali, SIX! That outta do it now! Trent Boult bangs in a short ball, around middle and it's just not short enough. Asif Ali hangs back and absolutely muscles it over the wide long on fence. Just 2 needed now. |
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