In the second T20 match between Pakistan and New Zealand, the hosts easily defeated the Green Shirts by 9 wickets to win the three-match series 0-2.
In the second T20 match played in Hamilton, national team captain Shadab Khan won the toss and elected to bat.
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At the beginning of the match, the openers of the national team could not give a big score to the team and Haider Ali was dismissed for 8 runs on a total score of 16 while Abdullah Shafiq, who came after him, returned to the pavilion on a total score of 16 without scoring a run. gone.
After which Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Hafeez took the team's score a little further but on a total score of 33 runs, Mohammad Rizwan scored 22 runs and became the target of Tim Southee's ball.
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After losing 3 wickets for 33 runs, captain Shadab Khan came to support the national team but he too could not show any significant performance and was dismissed for 4 runs on a total score of 56.
However, after that senior batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Khushdal Shah batted responsibly and put up a partnership of over 50 runs and completed 100 runs for the national team.
Mohammad Hafeez played aggressively and completed half a century, but the partnership of the two batsmen was broken at a total score of 119 runs and Khushdal Shah was caught on the boundary in an attempt to taste.
He was followed by Faheem Ashraf who returned to the pavilion with just 4 runs scored.
However, Mohammad Hafeez continued his aggressive batting and hit two fours and a six in the last over to take the national team's score to 163 but due to the completion of the over, Mohammad Hafeez could not complete his century with just one run.
For New Zealand, fast bowler Tim Southee took four wickets while James Neesham and Ash Sodhi took one wicket each.
Chasing a target of 164, the New Zealand team started batting responsibly.
However, opener Martin Guptill was dismissed for a total of 35, after which Tim Seifert batted aggressively and increased the team's score to 100 for the loss of one wicket.
After which Tim Seifert and Kiwi captain Ken Williamson continued to play aggressively and achieved the target of 164 runs for the loss of one wicket 4 balls earlier in the 20th over.
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Tim Seifert scored 84 off 63 balls while Ken Williamson scored 57 off 42 balls and both remained unbeaten.
The only wicket for Pakistan was taken by Faheem Ashraf.
Thus, the host New Zealand won the series of 3 T20 matches 0-2.
It should be noted that no change was made in the national team in the second T20 match being played today.
However, the Kiwis made four changes to today's match and captain Ken Williamson was representing the team while Kyle Jamieson, Tim Southee and Trent Bolt were also part of the host team.
It should be noted that in the first match of the series on December 18, the host New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
The first T20 match was played in Auckland, where the Pakistani team had earlier set a target of 154, which the Kiwis had achieved seven balls earlier for the loss of five wickets.
The Pakistan team on tour to New Zealand has been in trouble since the beginning and first the team had to stay in quarantine due to the corona virus affecting 8 members of the squad, then the captain of the national team and the famous batsman. Babar Azam was ruled out of the T20 series due to injury.
Both teams were composed of these players for the match
Pakistan: Shadab Khan (captain), Mohammad Rizwan, Abdullah Shafiq, Haider Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Khushdal Shah, Emad Wasim, Fahim Ashraf, Wahab Riaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf.
New Zealand: Ken Williamson (captain), Martin Guptill, Tim Seifert, Devon Conway, Glenn Phillips, James Neesham, Kyle Jamieson, Scott Caglian, Tim Southee, Trent Bolt, Ash Sodhi
