New Zealand overcome late surge to seal 5-0 sweep
Martin Guptill's 13th ODI century and Matt Henry's four-wicket haul led the way as New Zealand endured a late attack from Pakistan's lower order to seal the series
18/01Result
5th ODI, Pakistan tour of New Zealand at Wellington, Jan 19 2018
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
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![Pakistan]( "Pakistan")
256 (49/50 ov)
Player of the Match
18/01Result
5th ODI, Pakistan tour of New Zealand at Wellington, Jan 19 2018
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![New Zealand]( "New Zealand")
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![Pakistan]( "Pakistan")
256 (49/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
MJ Guptill
100(126) 10x4 - 1x6
Control %85%
- Productive Shot
- cover drive
- 22 runs
- 2x4 - 0x6
Haris Sohail
63(87) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %88%
- Productive Shot
- flick
- 15 runs
- 1x4 - 0x6
Best performances - Bowlers
MJ Henry
- O10
- M1
- R53
- W4
- Eco5.30
| 1W | ||||
| 1W |
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
| 1W | 1W | |||
MJ Santner
- O10
- M0
- R40
- W3
- Eco4.00
| 1W | ||||
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
| 1W | ||||
| 1W | ||||
Match Details
Toss
New Zealand , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Series result
New Zealand won the 5-match series 5-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
11.00 start, First Session 11.00-14.30 Interval 14.30-15.15, Second Session 15.15-18.45
Match days
19 January 2018 (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
NEW ZEALAND 271/7 (50 OVERS)
- Ross Taylor59 (73)
- Martin Guptill100 (126)
- Rumman Raees3/67 (10)
- Faheem Ashraf2/49 (9)
PAKISTAN 256 (49 OVERS)
- Haris Sohail63 (87)
- Shadab Khan54 (77)
- Mitchell Santner3/40 (10)
- Matt Henry4/53 (10)
Commentator: Nikhil Kalro
END OF OVER:49 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | PAK: 256/10 (16 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 5.22, RRR: 16.00)
- Aamer Yamin32 (27b)
- Matt Henry10-1-53-4
- Tim Southee9-0-46-0
6.55pm In the setting sun in Wellington, New Zealand sweep Pakistan with another clinical display. Only this time, they had to contend with a strong Pakistan fight. It was another stuttering innings from Pakistan in the first 25 overs, but they put up arguably their best period of cricket in this series in the latter half of this innings.
Shadab Khan and Haris Sohail struck fine rearguard fifties to put Pakistan in a position from which they could at least fight. They needed 100 off 60, and they took it down to the penultimate over. But fell agonizingly short in a thrilling finish to the ODIs.
Martin Guptill is the Man of the Match and the Man of the Series: "Skidding on with the new ball. Precautionary to get off, the shoulder is fine. Reasonable form, not my most fluent work, but sometimes, you have to score the tough runs. We've had to do a lot of hard grafts with the bat."
Kane Williamson: "They (Pakistan) operated well on that surface. Our guys adapted well right through the series. The surfaces have been slightly on the slower side, credit to Pakistan's side. Singles were hard to come by. ODI cricket is fickle in its nature. It is about improving all the time.
Sarfraz Ahmed: "Very tough series, the main thing was batting, it didn't click right through the series. We had opportunities. We back our team."
48.6
W
Henry to Rumman Raees, OUT, and that's the game. It doesn't go to the last over, but that was a sensational finish to the ODI series. A short slower delivery outside off, Raees swats it away towards midwicket, who keeps his eyes on the ball and takes a reverse-cupped catch. New Zealand complete a 5-0 sweep in the ODIs
Rumman Raees c Ferguson b Henry 5 (12m 6b 1x4 0x6) SR: 83.33
48.5
0
Henry to Rumman Raees, no run, a short slower ball down leg, Raees misses a hoick, struck on the body and lobs towards the keeper. Gets much tougher now
16 off 8. Williamson and Henry have a chat.
48.4
1
Henry to Aamer Yamin, 1 run, a short slower ball on middle and leg, 130 kph, pulled to deep midwicket. Just the one
17 off 9
48.3
2
Henry to Aamer Yamin, 2 runs, 126 kph, short and wide outside off, carved away behind point. He races back for the second and makes it with a full-length dive.
48.2
0
Henry to Aamer Yamin, no run, a well-delivered slower ball outside off, Yamin can't make contact with a pull
48.1
4
Henry to Aamer Yamin, FOUR, another thick inside edge to the fine leg boundary. How has he found just that little gap through the stumps and his body? A wild swing off a full delivery results in another boundary
A thrilling finish, can it go till the last over? Last ball? For now, it's 23 off 12. Henry will bowl out.
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Martin Guptill's 13th ODI century and Matt Henry's four-wicket haul led the way as New Zealand endured a late attack from Pakistan's lower order to seal the series
