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New Zealand vs Pakistan Scorecard, 3rd T20I, Pakistan vs New Zealand 2018
Result · Nov 04 2018, Sun - 09:30 PM (IST)
PAKISTAN166/3
NEW ZEALAND119
Pakistan won by 47 runs
CRR:7.07
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Match Info
| Series: | New Zealand tour to Pakistan (UAE) 2018 |
| Date: | Nov 04 2018, Sun - 09:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Dubai |
| Venue: | Dubai International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Asif Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed (c) (wk), Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Usman Shinwari, Waqas Maqsood |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Colin Munro, Glenn Phillips, Kane Williamson (c), Colin de Grandhomme, Mark Chapman, Ross Taylor, Tim Seifert (wk), Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Seth Rance |
- Pakistan have now won nine bilateral T20I series in succession (2+ matches); last losing such a series in January 2016.
- New Zealand have now gone five bilateral T20I series away from home without recording a win (W2 D3 - 2+ match series).
- Pakistan have won their last four T20Is against New Zealand, this after having lost five of their previous six encounters with the Black Caps.
- Pakistan have won eight of their 11 T20I matches against New Zealand when they have batted first, setting an average total of 163 runs in that span.
- New Zealand have lost eight of their last nine T20I matches, including their last five on the bounce; the last time they lost more was a seven-game stretch from 2007 to 2008.
- New Zealand have lost eight T20Is thus far in 2018; the Black Caps have never been defeated more times in a single calendar year (8 losses from 17 games in 2012).
- Pakistan have won their last five T20I games on the bounce at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, restricting their opponents to fewer than 154 runs in each innings.
- Babar Azam (Pakistan) heads into this game having posted scores of 40, 7, 50, 45, 68*, 51 and 97* across his last seven knocks in this format.
- Shoaib Malik is 101 away from going above New Zealand's Martin Guptill (2,271) at the top of the all-time T20I runscorers lists; he has only been able to post totals of 10 and 8 so far in this series.
- 20-year-old Shadab Khan has taken the second-most T20I wickets so far in 2018 (two behind Andrew Tye's 27), recording 25 dismissals thus far; he's only managed one scalp thus far in the series versus New Zealand however.