The sight of the black New Zealand jersey might evoke irritation, and perhaps even fear amongst the Pakistani fans now. For the last three months, they’ve seen their side lose in different shapes and manners to the Blackcaps. They beat Pakistan at home, they beat Pakistan away. They beat them while batting first, they beat them while batting second. They thrashed them with a full strength side, and now they’ve thrashed them with their gen next. All in all, tells the story of two nations going through two very different cricketing trajectories. Pakistan have one more ODI to endure, or hopefully to salvage some pride for themselves. We’ll see you at that one, bye for now.
Michael Bracewell: The way we fought through the innings. We started well, but lost a few wickets and then they way Mitch batted was brilliant.
Mohammad Rizwan:
Mitchell Hay | Player of the Match: Didn't cross my mind at all (century), I was just swinging. (On his partnership with Abbas) We just talked a lot about trying to take the game deep. We thought we could do a little bit of damage if we got to the death period. Mo batted really nicely. It was nice to form a partnership with him and take it deep. It's been cool to play these three games, definitely gives you confidence. Pretty happy with the keeping, the bowlers were awesome again tonight, it's a pleasure to keep to. They make the job pretty easy for me.
18:55 Local Time, 05:55 GMT, 11:25 IST:
41.2
Ben Sears to Naseem Shah, out Caught by Mitchell Hay!! Wicket next ball, Sears does get his fifer... Naseem Shah c Mitchell Hay b Ben Sears 51(44) [4s-4 6s-4]
Ben Sears to Naseem Shah, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
41.1
Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, 1 run, dropped!! A pace off full delivery onto off, Muqeem clears the front leg and hits it high into the night sky across the line. Mid-on runs back but never looked in control as he was back tracking. The ball goes through his hands in the end
40.6
Nathan Smith to Naseem Shah, no run, back of length and angles in towards middle and off, another swing and miss
40.5
Nathan Smith to Naseem Shah, no run
40.4
Nathan Smith to Naseem Shah, FOUR, to fine leg
40.3
Nathan Smith to Naseem Shah, no run, good length angling onto off, guided towards backward point
40.2
Nathan Smith to Sufiyan Muqeem, 1 run, to mid-off
40.1
Nathan Smith to Sufiyan Muqeem, no run
Pakistan need 91 runs off the last 10 overs!
39.6
Ben Sears to Naseem Shah, FOUR, Naseem moves to 47. Backs away,
39.6
Ben Sears to Naseem Shah, wide
39.5
Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, 1 run, 137.8kph, Sufiyan Muqeem gets inside the line of this shortish ball by walking across and pulls this short ball to fine leg. Probably came off the glove
39.4
Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, no run, 117.5kph, slower ball into the deck, Sufiyan Muqeem skips down the track to play across the line and once again misses
39.3
Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, no run, shortened length, Sufiyan Muqeem moves leg-side to heave and misses