Pakistan’s Tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Auckland-c766. Tim Southee was the star of the show as the right arm quickly snapped up 5 wickets including a hat trick that broke
the back of the Pakistani batting line up. It was a late surge from Wahab Riaz that gave some respectability to the Pakistan total; however it was still not enough as the home side cruised home in the 18th over.
After winning the toss New Zealand Captain Daniel Vettori asked Pakistan to bat first. The decision was looking a bit dodgy at first when Pakistan’s opening duo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 and Muhammad Hafeez got them off to a quick start. The Pakistani captain was
caught by Southee off the bowling of Kyle Mills after scoring 20 from 17 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes. Ahmad Shehzad and Hafeez added 22 more runs before the collapse began. Shehzad was caught behind off the bowling of Tim Southee after scoring 14 runs from
9 balls with 2 fours and a six.
Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan was the next to fall on just 2; he was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dean-Brownlie-c1349 off the bowling of Tim Southee. As the ball was in the air the batsmen changed ends and Hafeez got on strike and was dismissed on the very next ball. Hafeez
scored 24 runs from 35 balls with 4 boundaries, he was caught behind. Next man in was the wicketkeeper Umar Akmal and was not able to negotiate an in-swinger and handed Southee his first T-20 international Hat Trick. Pakistan at that point were 62 for the
loss of 5 wickets and it soon became 68 for 5 when Abdur Razzaq edged one to the keeper after scoring just 1 run. He was the 5th victim of Tim Southee.
Umar Gul and Wahab Riaz then put on a rear guard action and took the Kiwi attack to the sword. Both fast bowlers targeted the short boundary at midwicket and put on 30 runs each. Umar Gul was dismissed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321 who trapped him plum in front, while Wahab
Riaz remained unbeaten on 30 with 2 fours and 2 sixes. Pakistan ended their allotted 20 overs at 143 for the loss of 9 wickets.
If http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 were to have any chance of winning this match they had to get early wickets. Shoaib Akhtar bowled his heart out and did give his team an early breakthrough. Jessy Ryder was caught in the slips for just 6 runs. In the middle order Shoaib struck
twice more getting Brwonlie caught behind for 5 and later got Scott Styris bowled for just 7 runs. Martin Guptil though kept one end safe and continued to score freely. He got good support finally from Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915. Guptil was dismissed for 54 runs he was
run out while going for a quick run. Taylor though hung in there and made sure that he took the team to victory. Taylor was 39 not out from 53 balls with 2 fours and 3 big sixes. New Zealand got home with 17 balls and 5 wickets to spare. Tim Southee was
awarded man of the match for his 5 wickets, New Zealand now lead the 3 match T-20 series by 1-0.
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