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The scorecard will say that the New Zealand cricket team won the first round of the series against Pakistan by 101 runs at Mount Manganui. Where the visitors lost their last 6 wickets by 31 runs. Which is absolutely true. But it will never be written on the scorecard how much excitement the New Zealand team had to go through to win this race 101.
Pakistan had to spend the entire time with 8 wickets in hand on the final day to save the match. Experienced hitter Azhar Ali returned earlier in the day. Captain Mohammad Rizwan and veteran Fawad Alam formed an 83.2-overs marathon for the fifth wicket.
But with 27 overs remaining in the day’s game, Rizwan returned to the locker room. Even if Centurion Fawad is at the window, Pakistan’s defeat will be assured. Two tail finals Nasim Shah and Shahin Shah Afridi struggled at the last wicket. But with 4.3 overs remaining on the day, Nasim was out, New Zealand scored an impressive victory.
Ross Taylor, Henry Nichols and BJ Watling scored 431 runs in the first innings with the century of captain Ken Williamson. Pakistan responded with 239 runs. The Kiwis took a huge 192-run lead, with 160 runs scored in the second inning to give Pakistan a goal of 363 runs.
Pakistan had 127 overs to chase the race. On the afternoon of the fourth day, they lost 3 wickets in 36 overs and scored 81 runs. As a result, on the last day of today’s match (Wednesday), New Zealand will have to take 6 wickets to win the match, Pakistan needs 302 runs. Or if they play all day, the game will be a draw.
In such a situation, Pakistan lost the Azhar wicket in the third. Azhar made 36 of 120 balls before being caught behind the wicket by Trent Bolt. At the time it looked like New Zealand was going to get an easy win. But Fawad and Rizwan had different thoughts.
The two of them spent the rest of the first session together, not allowing danger to come for the entire second session. Neither of them tried to play to win, but the races were coming regularly. In the last session, the situation was such that Pakistan would win the match if he scored 156 runs in 36 overs with 6 wickets in hand.
But just an hour before that session, Kyle Jamieson, who is celebrating his 28th birthday, broke the tie by firing Rizwan. Before falling into the leg trap earlier, the Pakistan captain played a 60 inning on 191 balls. Previously, Fawad scored the second century of his test career in eleven years.
In his debut test in 2009, Fawad scored a century in the second inning of the match against Sri Lanka. In 11 years, in 2020, he also posted triple figures for the second time in the second inning against New Zealand. But after that he couldn’t survive for long. Neil Wagner was on a gorilla. Before that, he made 102 runs of 269 balls.
Yasir Shah (0), Fahim Ashraf (19) and Mohammad Abbas (6) could not remain at Fawad’s wicket for long. In the blink of an eye, Pakistan became a 241-race team for 4 terrains from 240 to 9 terrains. They had to play 64 more balls to save the match in the last wicket.
The last two hitters Nasim and Shahin didn’t collapse at all on that mission. Watching the kiwis play in front of the bowlers, he threw 47 balls. But with 27 balls remaining on the day, Mitchell Santner’s innocence came off in a delivery. Santner confirmed the result of the match with a great catch on his bowling alley.
Five pitchers Tim Southee, Trent Bolt, Neil Wagner, Kyle Jamieson and Mitchell Santner each took two wickets in the second inning for New Zealand. Local captain Ken Williamson won the Matchsera award for his outstanding captaincy with a century in the first innings.
THAT WINNING MOMENT! What a Mitchell Santner trap …
= @sparknzsport #NZvPAK #CricketNation pic.twitter.com/b4Bee4lawA
– BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) December 30, 2020
SAS / MKH
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