Match Details
8:04 PM IST | What a scintillating encounter this has been!! What drama, what a spectacle!! Zimbabwe have defeated Pakistan by a margin of one run. Slap your face 😶, Bang your head 🤯, you may even pinch your skin🤏🏼, but yes, this is it☄️. Zimbabwe have beaten Pakistan by a margin of one run, and what a contest it has been!!
Plenty of drama’s in the game and in the end, Zimbabwe scripts history at the Optus, Perth. The players from the African nation are jubilant, Sikandar Raza over Brad Evans, this was some game.🔥 There were nerves but it's the Zimbabwean valor that overcome the fraught.
Earlier in the game, Zimbabwe had won the toss and elected to bat first. Zimbabwe lost two wickets inside the powerplay before the new pair of Craig Ervine and Wesley Madhevere glued 40 runs. Pakistan was brilliant with the ball in hand- be it the pacers or the spinners. Shadab Khan created pressure in the middle order and Haris Rauf and Md. Wasim Jun. was blazing fire today with the white cherry in hand.
Sean Williams scored 31 runs from 28 balls and was the highest run-getter for Zimbabwe today. He lacked support from the other ends, and the wickets kept on tumbling. Brad Evans played a cameo of 19 runs from 15 balls at the cue end of the innings and the African nation touched the 130 runs mark.
In reply, Pakistan lost wickets early and it was their openers, Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan. The big fishes were trapped and Zimbabwe was right in the game. It was Shan Masood who took the chase deep down with his 44 runs from 38 deliveries.
The southpaw lacked support and later, wickets in two consecutive balls from Sikandar Raza opened the gates of victory for Pakistan. 32 runs were required from 24 balls and Richard Ngarava and Blessing Muzarabani were stupendous in the next three overs. It was Mohammed Nawaz and Mohammed Wasim Jun. who were at either end of the strip then. It went down to 11 runs needed from 6 balls in the last over and Brad Evans had the responsibility on his shoulders to defend it.