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New Zealand Clean Sweeps ODI Series Against Pakistan: New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 47 runs in the third ODI. Ben Sears took 5 wickets in this match. New Zealand also won the ODI series 3–0 with this …Read more
New Zealand’s Ben Sears took 5 wickets in the third ODI against Pakistan.
New Delhi. The shameful performance of the Pakistani cricket team on New Zealand tour also continued in the third ODI. Host New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 47 runs in the third ODI. New Zealand also won the ODI series 3–0 with this. New Zealand won the T20 series 4–1 before making a clean sweep in the ODI series.
The third ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan was played on Saturday. In this rain -affected match, New Zealand scored 264 for 8 wickets in 42 overs. Captain Michael Braswell scored the highest 59 and opener Rius Mariau scored 58 runs. Derryl Mitchell scored 43 and Henry Nicks scored 31 runs. Tim Sifart scored 26 runs. For Pakistan, Akif Javed took the maximum 4 wickets and Naseem Shah took 2 wickets.
Pakistan started well chasing a target of 265 runs. He had scored 97 runs for 2 wickets at one time. Usman Khan (12) was dismissed on the score of 97. After this, the process of falling wickets stopped only when all the batter of Pakistan was out. Ben Sears gave the most shocks to Pakistan. He took 5 wickets for 34 runs. This is the second consecutive match when Kiwi Pesar has taken 5 wickets. Ben Sears took the same number of wickets in the second match against Pakistan.
Talking about Pakistani batting, Babar Azam scored the most 50 runs for his side. Captain Mohammad Rizwan scored an innings of 37 runs. Opener Abdullah Shafiq and Tayyab Tahir contributed 33-33 runs. Apart from these four, not a single batter 20 could cross the 20 run. Apart from Ben Sears for New Zealand, Jacob Dafi performed well. He took 2 wickets. Michael Braswell, Mohammad Abbas and Deril Mitchell took one wicket each.
