New Zealand’s openers went on a six-hitting blitz on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) to thrash Pakistan by 5 wickets and go 2-0 up of their Twenty20 collection.
The residence aspect reached 137-5 with 11 balls to spare in Dunedin to take management of the five-match collection after Pakistan posted 135-9 off 15 overs in a rain-reduced second match.
New Zealand’s spotlight was a ferocious opening stand between Tim Seifert and Finn Allen by which seven of the primary eight scoring photographs had been sixes.
Remarkably, Seifert performed out a maiden off Shaheen Shah Afridi’s opening over earlier than Allen cleared the small University Oval boundary 3 times within the second over, bowled by Mohammad Ali.
Seifert then smashed 26 off Afridi’s second over, together with 4 sixes.
Seifert, who top-scored with 44 within the nine-wicket win in Christchurch on Sunday, departed on 45 off 22 balls.
Allen fell quickly afterwards for 38 off 16, with the openers hammering 5 sixes every.
Four New Zealand wickets fell within the house of 4 overs halfway by the chase earlier than Mitch Hay’s unbeaten 21 made the end result protected.
Earlier, captain Salman Agha top-scored with 46 off 28 balls, launching a restoration after Pakistan had been despatched in and misplaced opener Hasan Nawaz with out scoring for the second time within the collection.
They had been 19-2 within the fourth over earlier than the skipper launched into a knock that featured 4 fours and three sixes.
Shadab Khan was aggressive within the center order with 26 off 14 balls and Afridi was not-out 22 off 14.
Four New Zealand bowlers took two wickets, together with seamer Ben Sears and all-rounder Jimmy Neesham, who had been each recalled, rather than Tim Robinson and Kyle Jamieson.
New Zealand can wrap up the collection if victorious in recreation three in Auckland on Friday.
Teams:
New Zealand: Tim Seifert, Finn Allen, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Mitchell Hay, Michael Bracewell (captain), Zakary Foulkes, Ish Sodhi, Ben Sears, Jacob Duffy.
Pakistan: Mohammad Haris, Hasan Nawaz, Salman Ali Agha (captain), Irfan Khan, Shadab Khan, Khushdil Shah, Abdul Samad, Jahandad Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Mohammed Ali.
Published – March 18, 2025 09:29 am IST
