Pakistan has set a target of 335 runs to New Zealand in the fourth ODI of the home series.
In the match played at the National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan scored 334 runs for 6 wickets in the allotted 50 overs.
The highlight of Pakistan’s innings was Babar Azam’s excellent performance, he scored a century and achieved 2 records in a single day.
Babar Azam today became the first Hashim Amla to become the fastest to 5,000 runs, a feat which the South African batsman accomplished in 101 innings, which the national captain completed in just 97 innings.
With this, Babar Azam scored 107 runs with 10 fours, his 18th century in ODI cricket, thus becoming the first batsman in the world to score 18 centuries in the shortest innings.
With Babar Azam standing at one end, other players also formed a good partnership, Agha Salman scored 58, Shan Masood 44, Iftikhar Ahmed 28, Mohammad Rizwan returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs.
Shaheen Shah Afridi played an unbeaten innings of 23 runs off 7 balls from Green Shirts side and took the team’s score to 334 runs.
Earlier, New Zealand, who had won the toss, invited Pakistan to bat first, on which captain Babar Azam said that if we had won the toss, we would have preferred to bat.
Babar Azam said that there have been 5 changes in the team, the pitch is looking good, they will try to score 290 runs.
On the other hand, 3 changes have been made in the New Zealand team for the match today.
Shaan Masood, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Haris, Agha Salman, Shaheen Afridi, Muhammad Wasim, Osama Mir and Haris Rauf are playing today’s match.
New Zealand team
The New Zealand team includes captain Tom Latham, Will Young, Tom Blundell, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Jimmy Neesham, Cole McConchie, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Ben Lister and Blair Tickner.
It should be noted that Pakistan has a decisive advantage in the series of 5 ODI matches by 3 nil.
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