Pakistan vs NewZealand ODI series 2003

kahan gaye sub:confused:

where??

hmm I really hope we win this match without any lost of wicket :smiley:

imran farhat smashed 12 fours in his innings of 58* :eek:

yasir hameed gone :(

azhar mehmood in

azhar gone :smack:

Imran Gone !

Imran Farhat run out (Canning) 82 (117b 14x4 0x6) SR: 70.09

I don’t understand what captain sahab is doing today :konfused:

Saleem elahi gone, bowled

just kidding ;)

Pak all team out, new zealand win by 1 run

Just kidding, we won by 7 wkts!! ;)

Pakistan require another 2 runs with 7 wickets and 54 balls remaining

The question remains will Pakistan be able to win this match and create yet another history :)

convincing win! Pak lead the series 4-0. Another 100+ runs opening partnership, mashallah.
:mash: :jhanda:

masha’allah our openers are scoring century partnerships for fun :k:
real test will be in NZL conditions where Bond-Tuffey bowling pair will be tough to handle… Hope Opening combo of Taufeeq/Imran and Imran/Yasir see us through in both tests and onedayers.

Very good batting… yet another century stand :k:

Azhar Mahmood’s bowling was fine, but batting was no where to be seen. I am sure he’ll get another chance in next game.

So Azhar was brought in at cost of M Sami and U Gul at cost of Shabbir Ahmad, both of them were unimpressive. But I think next game we will play same squad, we should try A Rauf in Azhar or Gul’s place :smash:

^^ Yaar azhar bowled well, better than Gul for that matter :)

4th one day international (day/night match) played @ rawalpindi!!!

Kiwi’s won toss and batted first…

kiwi score: **183 all out ** (47.5 overs)

pick of the kiwi batsmen:

Cairns 48 , Harris 25

** pick of the pak bowlers **

shoaib-e-babi 10 overs 3 / 23 :k: on his home ground shabash :dhimpak:

Shoaib Malik 10 overs 2 / 46

Pak score: ** 184 / 3** (41.2 overs)

** pick of pak batsmen **

Hameed 61 (7 * 4)
Farhat 82 (14 * 4)

Pakistan won by 7 wickets & lead the 5 match odi series 4 - 0 !!!

scorecard from pindi](http://uk.cricinfo.com//db/ARCHIVE/2003-04/NZ_IN_PAK/SCORECARDS/frames/NZ_PAK_ODI4_05DEC2003.html)

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*Originally posted by saby: *
^^ Yaar azhar bowled well, better than Gul for that matter :)
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Isn't it time that we try Abdul Rauf or other pacers?

Shoaib and Farhat star in seven-wicket win for Pakistan

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Yasir Hameed: fluent half-century to ease Pakistan to victory
© Wisden Cricinfo

Pakistan thumped New Zealand by seven wickets in a comprehensive all-round exhibition to take a 4-0 lead in the five-match series. New Zealand opted to bat, but made heavy weather of a flat pitch, struggling to 183 as Pakistan’s bowlers made run-scoring a torrid affair. Shoaib Akhtar took 3 for 23, as top-order batsmen and tailenders were equally uncomfortable against his controlled aggression.

Imran Farhat (82) and Yasir Hameed (61) then hammered 134 for the first wicket – a partnership characterised by merciless batting that emphasised the difference between the teams – as Pakistan coasted past the target with more than eight overs to spare.

Chris Cairns top-scored for a team that has been bruised, battered, and for the most part of this series, resembled a tattered rag-doll. His innings of 48 stood out among others that promised much but were terminated by incisive bowling. A defiant six over midwicket to signal the end of Abdul Razzaq’s miserly spell confirmed his combative intentions, as did a string of boundaries in the middle of the New Zealand innings. But it was not to last, as he ran out of both partners and time, and fell to a false shot, bowled by Shoaib Malik (143 for 7).

Earlier, Akhtar took all of five balls to deliver the first blow, ending Craig Cumming’s stay with an incutter that thudded into his pads (0 for 1). Mathew Sinclair then joined Richard Jones, and the pair scored runs on the rare occasions the bowlers erred. The budding partnership ended when Sinclair (7) played down the wrong line to a Razzaq inswinger and was adjudged lbw (23 for 2).

New Zealand’s self-destructive predisposition, much in evidence on this tour, then came to the fore again. Jones played a ball to square leg and took off for a second run, but Akhtar’s powerful throw to the wicketkeeper had him diving back in vain (31 for 3). With the top three dismissed, the bowlers had a stranglehold and did not gift Hamish Marshall and Chris Harris any favours. An Azhar Mahmood yorker splayed the stumps to end Marshall’s endeavors (49 for 4).

Trying to buck the tightening screws, Harris and Cairns applied pressure on the fielders with well-placed singles and slowly built a partnership. At this point Inzamam-ul-Haq turned to Malik, a masterstroke that wrenched New Zealand’s final experienced pair apart. Harris stepped out and hit a ball high, but not long enough, and Saleem Elahi made a difficult catch look simple at long-off (82 for 5).

Brendon McCullum’s brief stay at the wicket was aborted by a throw that found him short of the crease, attempting a third run off a misfield (100 for 6). When Cairns was dismissed shortly after, Akhtar returned to bully the tail, picking up two wickets before an Umar Gul delivery disturbed Paul Hitchcock’s stumps and ended an innings of considerable woe.

The New Zealand attack discovered the schizophrenic nature of the pitch, as it now held none of the imagined dangers of the first innings, when wickets tumbled and runs were in short supply. Daryl Tuffey’s first four overs were dismissed for 30 runs, while Michael Mason’s three cost 20. Hameed and Farhat simply drove through the line when the ball was pitched up, singing the turf with thundering boundaries, and stepped back to cut anything short tantalisingly past slip to the fence.

By the halfway mark both openers had thrashed fifties, and just as New Zealand were headed for a ten-wicket defeat, Hameed chipped a Tama Canning delivery to long-on, where Tuffey took a regulation catch (134 for 1). Moments later, they combined to dismiss Mahmood, as Tuffey dived full-length to grasp a catch inches from the grass at cover (153 for 2).

Canning dismissed Farhat as well, this time with a direct throw from fine leg, as the batsman scampered for a second run (162 for 3). That was the last of the setbacks, as Saleem Elahi and Malik achieved the victory with a spell of boundaries to leave New Zealand with the unpleasant prospect of a 0-5 whitewash.

© Wisden Cricinfo Ltd

http://www-usa.cricket.org/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/DEC/005270_PAKNZ2003-04_05DEC2003.html

lol...I think Pakistan can start from bottom to top(reverse order) while batting in the next match...and try some part-time bowlers too...see if we can win or not...lol