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    5.1 goes straight up and taken! Pakistan go back-to-back! Dug into the track on middle and leg. Zips off the surface and gets big on Bennett as he looks to pull. Cannot control his stroke and the ball skews off the top edge. Deep square leg runs in and completes the catch well inside the fence! 37/2
    4.3 Afridi breaks through! On the shorter side again, and angling into the stumps. Marumani is itching to force this over the off-side ring but the lack of width means he cannot get under it completely. Spoons it towards cover point, where Tahir makes no mistake. A cameo to get Zimbabwe underway, although they would have probably wanted much more! 37/1
    7.4 plumb with a capital P! Fired in full on middle and leg. Myers looks to turn it to leg but ends up missing a straight ball, getting pinged on the front pad in the process. That might have missed leg stump. And off stump too. Because it was crashing into middle stump. Myers has to go, and Zimbabwe have been backed into a corner! 44/4
    6.2 off stump goes for a toss, and Raza is outta here! Hard length outside off and this jags back sharply. Raza is hopping around his crease and never gets into a stable position. Neither forward nor back, and the ball keeps a little low to burst through the defences. Off stump is out of the ground, and Zimbabwe lose their skipper! 40/3
    8.4 a celebrappeal from Muqeem, and the umpire obliges! The googly has caused Zimbabwe plenty of trouble already and it is on display again. Pitches on a length just outside off. Burl does not pick it and plays down the wrong line. Gets rapped in front of off stump and that would have likely gone on to hit the stumps too. Zimbabwe are tottering! 46/5
    12.4 miscued and that will be that! Zimbabwe sink to their lowest total in men's T20Is, and Muqeem finishes with astonishing figures of 2.4-0-3-5! Googly given a bit of air on a length just outside off. Madande has a wild slog across the line because, well, why not. Goes straight up off the top edge and Agha, stood at slip, does the rest! 57/10
    8.5 and Musekiwa has to walk back first ball! Another beautifully-disguised wrong'un, pitching on a length on leg stump and turning away. The batter has no clue about the variation and pokes at it in hope. Gets nowhere close to the ball and off stump is uprooted! 46/6
    10.4 nicked and taken at slip! Muqeem has three! Fizzed through on a length just outside off. This is the leg-spinner and it deviates just a shade. Masakadza, not knowing where it is turning, dangles his bat and gets a thick outside edge that is snared sharply by Agha. Zimbabwe staring down the barrel! 52/7
    10.6 hot knife through butter! They cannot play him! Seems like a slider that pitches on a length on leg stump and zips through. Ngarava, caught in the crease, stabs at it, hoping to get something on it. Gets absolutely nothing, unfortunately for him. The ball scrapes the flap of the back pad and then thunders into the stumps. Zimbabwe eight down! 52/8
    11.2 another massive shout, and that looks pretty adjacent! Floated up full on middle and off. Muzarabani plonks his front foot and tries to work it across the line first up. Misses it altogether and is struck flush on the front pad, in front of middle stump. Easy decision for the umpire, and Zimbabwe lose another! 53/9
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    TOTAL
    57 all out (12.4 Overs, RR: 4.5)
    Fall of wickets: 1-37 (Tadiwanashe Marumani, 4.3 ov), 2-37 (Brian Bennett, 5.1 ov), 3-40 (Sikandar Raza, 6.2 ov), 4-44 (Dion Myers, 7.4 ov), 5-46 (Ryan Burl, 8.4 ov), 6-46 (Tashinga Musekiwa, 8.5 ov), 7-52 (Wellington Masakadza, 10.4 ov), 8-52 (Richard Ngarava, 10.6 ov), 9-53 (Blessing Muzarabani, 11.2 ov), 10-57 (Clive Madande, 12.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Abrar Ahmed302117.0073000
    Jahandad Khan1011011.0031100
    Haris Rauf201316.5062000
    Abbas Afridi21221.00100000
    Agha Salman20713.5060000
    Sufiyan Muqeem2.40351.12130000

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