Pakistan clinch series

Pakistan have won a one-day array opposite New Zealand, starting 3-1 forward with a diversion to fool around after their 41-run feat during Hamilton upon Thursday.

After an Ahmed Shehzad-inspired Pakistan set New Zealand 269 for victory, half-centuries to Martin Guptill (65) as well as Ross Taylor (69) had a Kiwis in contention.

But after a span were dismissed, a hosts collapsed to remove 5-35 as their awful run of form in one-day cricket continued, with New Zealand carrying won only a single of their final fifteen matches.

The run-chase proposed in a misfortune probable conform for Ross Taylor’s side, with Jesse Ryder run out for a diamond-duck off a really initial round of a compare by a shining square of fielding from Misbah-ul-Haq.

While Guptill was scoring freely, Jamie How (12 from 39) struggled with a run-rate as a likes of Abdur Razzaq (0-19) as well as Shoaib Akhtar (1-32) kept things tight.

How in a future over off a bowling of Wahab Riaz (3-51) prior to Taylor as well as Guptill got to work, compiling an considerable 59-run kinship from 60 deliveries.

At 2-112, New Zealand were still a genuine possibility of victory, until Guptill miscued a offshoot off a bowling of Akhtar as well as was held in a low by Umar Akmal, a wicket which dramatically swung a match.

Senior batsmen Brendon McCullum (9) as well as Scott Styris (9) both over low prior to James Franklin (16) as well as Taylor fell in a space of 5 deliveries to leave New Zealand during 7-194.

Taylor had been maybe propitious to tarry an lbw interest a round prior to his dismissal, though during a second time of asking Shahid Afridi got his wicket as well as private a dangerman.

With a run-rate augmenting by a over, Nathan McCullum (14) as well as Jacob Oram (10) attempted to enlarge a scoring, though after removing established, both over to gifted seamer Umar Gul (2-28).

It was left to Wahab to bind a compare as well as array for his side, purify bowling Hamish Bennett (3) to finish an additional unsatisfactory one-day opening from a Kiwis.

Earlier, a high 115 from Shehzad gave Pakistan a height to measure big.

The 19-year-old posted his initial ever one-day century during a eighth event as well as tender all as well as various during Seddon Park with his stroke-making, as he discharged twelve bounds as well as 3 sixes en track to a measure which was completed during improved than a run-a-ball.

Many of Shehzad’s team-mates got starts though unsuccessful to go upon with a job, with a likes of Mohammad Hafeez (14), Kamran Akmal (17), Younis Khan (21) as well as Misbah (25) removing set during a double prior to being dismissed.

Pakistan seemed set for a measure for a whopping measure of coming 300 when they were 5-207 during a 40-over mark, though neat bowling from a likes of Kyle Mills (2-42) as well as Jacob Oram (2-49) during a genocide limited a visitors.

Shahid Afridi entertained a throng with his sprightly twenty-four though his partners during a alternative finish could not get going, withdrawal Pakistan potentially a fragment unhappy with their measure since where they were placed with 10 overs remaining.

But they should not have been, as a likes of Wahab as well as Gul unprotected a diseased underbelly of a New Zealand middle-order.