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LAHORE: Pakistan took
2-0 lead in the five-match one-day series against New Zealand
beating the touring side by 124 runs in the second one-day
international at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday.
Pakistan won the opening match on Saturday by 3 wickets. The
third match will be played on December 3 at Faisalabad.
Pakistan stand in captain, Yousaf Youahan won the toss and
elected to bat and hit up 281 for 6 in 50 overs, thanks to
sparkling half centuries by top scorer Saleem Elahi, openers
Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed.Regular captain, Inzamam ul Haq
was rested as he was suffering from throat infection.
Sami destroyed the tail with career best figures five for just
runs 10 runs in 7.5 overs, before missing two successive hat
tricks and having four wickets off just 4 balls in one over.
“Man of the match” proved a nightmare with a rare display of
accurate pace bowling as New Zealand five wickets fell at a
grand same total of 155 before they were 119 for 4 in 27.5
overs. The six wickets fell with addition of 3 runs.
Sami mopped up the tail, starting the action removing middle
order batsman Jacob Oram (14) before top scorer Richard Jones
(63) played a fighting innings with stroke play, producing 68
runs for the 4th wicket with skipper Chris Cairns (29) who was
run out.
Jones hit one six and five fours off 110 balls in 141 minutes
and was bowled by spinner Shoaib Malik who took one wicket for
36 runs.
The departure of Jones and coming of Sami brought Pakistan
into the match and the bowler went on for a wonderful
performance in his 7th over and innings 37th.He bowled Oram
off the first ball, bowled Tama Canning (0) off the second and
Deniel Vettori (0) denied him the hat trick by playing the
coming two deliveries and was bowled off the fifth and Paul
Hitchock was also bowled off the last delivery which gave Sami
four wickets in space of four balls.
Sami who bowled the next over waited till the fifth delivery
and bowled Brendon McCullum (0) to steer the side to success
and surpassed his previous best performance of 4 for 25
against West Indies at Sharjah in 2002.
Earlier Pakistan took a flying start which eventually helped
them to build a respectable total. The openers’ pair of Yasir
Hameed and Imran Farhat gave the side much needed start by
putting on 115 runs off 144 balls as Black Caps bowlers
struggled for early break through.
Kiwis most successful bowler, leg spinner, Daniel Vettori with
a three wickets haul for 44 runs , dislodged the pair when
Yasir (53) mis-timed a clever delivery and was caught at short
fine leg by Cumming.Yasir hit five fours off 74 balls and at a
total of 144.
Pakistan lost their second wicket in 30 overs before the first
wicket fell in 20th over.
Vettori got the second break through when Imran (68) attempted
an unsuccessful big shot and was taken at long off by
Hitchcock and Pakistan fell into further trouble losing their
third wicket at 162 in 35.2 overs. With Youhana ( 11) as third
victim, Vittori did the maximum damage in 10 overs. Imran,
well set for a big knock, forced one six and eight fours in
sizzling knock consuming 88 balls in 123 minutes.
As Pakistan continued to lose quick wickets of their middle
order, a fifth wicket stand of exact 50 runs between the top
scorer Saleem and Shoaib Malik minimized their worries to some
extent before their fourth wicket fell at 171 in 38.3 overs.
Misbah ul Haq (4) was the batsman out off medium pacer Tuffy.
Saleem (70) batted with responsibility and struck six fours
off the ropes in 69 balls off 106 minutes and the stand was
broken with the departure of Shoaib runout (23) with two
fours. Pakistan fifth wicket was downed in 45 overs at a total
of 221 runs.
Saleem continued supporting the side and associated Abdul
Razzaq notout (42) for a small but useful contribution of 45
runs for the 6th wicket. Saleem lost concentration off a
rising delivery of paceman Hitchcock and was caught at extra
covers by Vettori at a grand total of 266 in 49.4 overs.
Razzaq slammed two mighty sixes and three fours in 16 balls to
shine in the role of an all rounder.
Result: Pakistan won by 124 runs and lead the series by 2-0
Man of the match Mohammad Sami
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New
Zealand |
R |
B |
4's |
6's |
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CD Cumming |
c Malik b Shabbir |
6 |
27 |
0 |
0 |
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RA Jones |
b Malik |
63 |
110 |
5 |
1 |
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MS Sinclair |
b Shabbir Ahmed |
5 |
14 |
1 |
0 |
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HJH Marshall |
b Razzaq |
14 |
14 |
1 |
0 |
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C Cairns |
run out Malik |
29 |
33 |
3 |
0 |
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JDP Oram
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b Sami |
14 |
23 |
1 |
0 |
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Tama Canning |
b Sami |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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DL Vettori |
c Farhat b Sami |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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PA Hitchcock |
b Sami |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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DR Tuffey |
not out |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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Extra |
LB:9 |
NB:4 |
WB:11 |
B:1 |
25 |
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Total |
Wickets: 10 |
Overs: 38.5 |
R/R: 4.1 |
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157 |
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