Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

Mohammad Rizwan
Mohammad Rizwan
82(61) 10x4 - 1x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 18 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
9 1 14 8 9 3 12 26
CR Ervine
CR Ervine
34(23) 3x4 - 1x6
Control %60%
  • Productive Shot
  • sweep shot
  • 8 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
5 0 6 7 8 5 2 1

Best performances - Bowlers

Usman Qadir
Usman Qadir
O4
M0
R29
W3
Eco7.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W
W Madhevere
O2
M0
R11
W2
Eco5.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Zimbabwe , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

Pakistan led the 3-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

11.00 start, First Session 11.00-12.30, Interval 12.30-12.50, Second Session 12.50-14.20

Match days

21 April 2021 (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Ranjith P | Commentator: Danyal Rasool

Right, so that's all from our coverage of the first T20I. Thank you so much for sticking around with Peter and me, and we'll see you again in two days time.

Babar Azam isn't exactly overjoyed. "Wasn't a convincing win," he says. "The batsmen aren't performing, but we will try and come back in the second game. When you come to these wickets after bouncy wickets, you need to adjust. If someone hung around with Rizwan, we could have put on a bigger total."

Mohammad Rizwan's unbeaten 82 gets him the Player of the match award, not surprisingly. Carried his bat once more. "They won the toss and used the pitch well. The wickets here are different, the pitch keeps low. But Babar and I have this plan where if one fails the other tries to go deep. It's working for now. In Zimbabwe, the ball doesn't quite come on to the bat, but once Hafeez fell, my aim was to get us to 150."

Sean Williams says it's "inexcusable" the number of catches Zimbabwe dropped, especially against a side like Pakistan. Says he wanted to keep Pakistan to 130, and felt that was the par total. "I feel that second partnership to accompany that third wicket partnership was missing," he says. "The wicket played into our favour and winning the toss was crucial. Inexcusable to lose a game like that"

This game's the kind Zimbabwe lose a bit too frequently, unfortunately. They fail to put struggling teams away, and Pakistan were there for putting away several times in that first innings. At the end, the 12 wides bowled, and the sloppiness in the field came back to cost them, and the frenetic nature of the chase when it should have been a cakewalk didn't quite work in the end.

Talha Nawaz: "Pakistan has defended total of under 150 thrice against ZIM and ZIM made 137, 137 and 138 this time too close"

Shariq : "Strange obsession of Masakadza's to new Zealand, hamilton and Wellington " Never really thought about that but yeah. I hear there are 14 brothers, so they could have covered all of New Zealand pretty decently if they'd been so inclined

END OF OVER:
20 | 8 Runs | ZIM: 138/7 (12 runs required, RR: 6.90)

  • Wellington Masakadza2 (4b)
  • Luke Jongwe30 (23b)
  • Haris Rauf4-0-29-1
  • Mohammad Hasnain4-0-27-2
19.6
1
Haris Rauf to Masakadza, 1 run, sliced through the offside, and that's a somewhat tame end to a T20I that hung in the balance for a long, long time. Pakistan win by 11 runs
19.5
1
Haris Rauf to Jongwe, 1 run, another yorker, only just dug out for a single
19.4
1
Haris Rauf to Masakadza, 1 run, oddly enough, chooses to take the single instead of going for a slog, which means Jongwe needs to get 14 off 2
19.3
1
Haris Rauf to Jongwe, 1 run, there's no coming back for two on this occasion. Bat-pad from Jongwe, and Masakadza is on strike. That may finally be that for the hosts
19.2
2
Haris Rauf to Jongwe, 2 runs, driven to long-on and they absolutely set off for two once more. Throw goes to the wrong end, and remember Zimbabwe are still ahead of Pakistan at this stage

Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st21TS KamunhukamweW Madhevere
2nd0TS KamunhukamweT Marumani
3rd56CR ErvineTS Kamunhukamwe
4th2CR ErvineRP Burl
5th12SC WilliamsRP Burl
6th4RW ChakabvaRP Burl
7th27RP BurlLM Jongwe
8th16LM JongweWP Masakadza