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Jacob Duffy played brilliantly on his debut. In its bowling cannon, Pakistan has to be content with medium capital. Later the responsible hitting of Tim Seifert. New Zealand didn’t have much momentum to win the first T20 game of the season against Pakistan. The hosts took a 1-0 lead in the series by winning by 5 wickets.
Batting first at Eden Park on Friday, visiting Pakistan scored 153 runs for 9 wickets. With 8 balls remaining in response, New Zealand secured victory with 5 wickets in hand.
However, chasing the target, New Zealand didn’t get off to a good start. After losing two wickets in 21 races, the team was under pressure. However, starter Tim Seifert overcame the pressure with a 34-run position for the third wicket with Glenn Phillips. He then averaged another 45-run position with Mark Chapman and returned to the locker room with a catch at the boundary line off Shahin Afridi. At that time, the hosts were afraid of winning.
After the pressure was gone, the team easily reached the winning port with the bat of captain Mitchell Santner and James Nisham. Seifert played the highest innings of 56 runs for the team. He hit 6 fours and 1 six of 43 balls. Additionally, Chapman and Phillips scored 34 and 23 runs respectively. Harris Rauf took 3 wickets for 29 runs for Pakistan. Shahin Afridi took 2 plots.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan’s opening partnership was broken by 6 runs. After that, the team lost three wickets for three races in 20 races. Another 19 races were added to the scoreboard. Five wickets in the last higher order for 39 runs. It was then that the team started to see the rhythm. After that, when Captain Shadab Khan and Fahim Ashraf were able to take some responsibility, Pakistan’s score stood at 153 runs.
Pakistan won the draw. Choose the batting. But from the start, the team fell into a batting disaster. Captain Sadabai has fought the trend. Although known as an off-road bowling alley, he made 42 of 32 balls with 2 fours and 3 sixes. Fahim hit 2 fours and 3 sixes like him. However, he did score 31 18-ball runs. Additionally, 19 runs came from Imad Wasim’s bat.
Pakistan originally collapsed on the day of Jacob Duffy’s inauguration. He made his mark in the first Kiwi jersey match. He collected four valuable wickets. Besides the two starters, Mohammad Rizwan and Abdullah Shafiq, he also chased after Mohammad Afz and Captain Shadab. Another Scott Kugelin was no less. His victims are also three.
Short score:
Pakistan: 153/9 in 20 overs (Rizwan 18, Shafiq 0, Haider 3, Hafeez 0, Shadab 42, Khushdil 18, Imad 19, Fahim 31, Wahab 9, Shaheen 10 *, Haris 0 *; Santner 0/18, Duffy 4/33, Kugelin 26/3, Shodhi 1/38, Tickner 1/35).
New Zealand: 16.5 over 156/5 (Guptill 6, Seifert 57, Conway 5, Phillips 23, Chapman 34, Nisham 15 *, Santner 12 *; Afridi 2/26, Imad 0/14, Harris 3/29, Fahim 0 / 16, Wahab 0/45, Shadab 0/22).
Result: New Zealand won by 5 wickets.
Man of the match: Jacob Duffy (New Zealand).
