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So how much are you enjoying The Summer of Southee so far?
The Black Caps’ seasoned swing bowler produced another dominant individual display to lead his team to victory in Game 2 of the Twenty20 series at Hamilton on Sunday night.
In a packed Seddon Park, Southee took 4-21 to help hold Pakistan to 163-6. In response, New Zealand hit their target with four balls and nine wickets to spare when Tim Seifert scored the all-time leading scorer with an unbeaten 84, securing another series win for the hosts after they saw the West Indies earlier this season. month.
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New Zealand’s Tim Southee, right, starred in the ball against Pakistan during the second game of the T20 series at Seddon Park.
It was a continuation of the form Southee displayed in New Zealand’s two overwhelming test match victories over the West Indies (took 12 wickets at 18.75) and will have sent chills to Pakistan’s batters and head coach Misbah-ul- Haq before his series of two tests.
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Southee rested from the opening game of the three-match Twenty20 series that NZ won by five wickets in Auckland on Friday night, along with test stars Trent Boult and Kyle Jamieson.
Haider Ali, 32, received his second ball in the corporate hospitality area for six on Sunday night, but four balls later removed referee Chris Brown’s cap and sunglasses with two windows under his belt. .
Such was his mastery of the swing that his new father and returning captain Kane Williamson used two slips to start Pakistan’s sixth inning. It was justified as Southee induced a lead from Mohammad Rizwan that was stopped by goalkeeper Tim Seifert and ended with three men in the cordon hungry for more.
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Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan on his way to an undefeated 99 against the Black Caps.
He grabbed another wicket when they brought him back for his last change and narrowly missed taking his second bag of five wickets in T20s (the only one he had was against the same opposition 10 years ago) when Seifert failed to get a top edge from Mohammad Hafeez. off his final ball.
As if proving that the newest format of international cricket is not solely the dominance of whippersnappers, Hafeez led the visitors’ resistance with the bat, falling one career short of the second century in T20 history for Pakistan.
Born in a year when Another One Bites The Dust was a single hit, he thrived as his teammates fell, scoring 61 percent of Pakistan’s runs from the bat, with his 99 unbeaten coming from 57 balls and with five six and ten fours. .
Devon Conway dropped him into bowling against Scott Kuggeleijn when he was 45 and sent the next two balls for six, in the process, becoming the most prolific T20 hitter in his country. Amazingly, it’s been the best year of his career in T20 – he entered the game averaging 49 with a strike rate of 139 in 2020.
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Tim Seifert of New Zealand hits Pakistan at Seddon Park.
Seifert made sure the NZ chase was always ahead of schedule, picking up speed after losing his opening partner Martin Guptill.
After making 57 of 43 balls on Friday, the wicketkeeper-hitter did not bow Sunday night with his best international T20 hit of 84, not out of 63 balls.
Williamson (an undefeated 57 out of 42 deliveries) overcame his second ball as a father between goalkeeper Rizwan and a wide, lonely slip, but was soon back to safety in the same spot where he made his best test score a fortnight ago.
The final match of the series is at Napier on Tuesday, with the first round of the two-round series between the two fighters beginning at the Mount Maunganui Bay Oval on Boxing Day.
Pakistan 163-6 of 20 overs (M Hafeez 99 no out of 57 balls; T Southee 4-21 of 4 overs) lost to New Zealand 164-1 of 19.2 overs (T Seifert 84th of 63 balls, K Williamson 53rd of 41 balls) for nine wickets.
