PAK vs NZ: Babar Azam’s attack, hit a stormy century in T20 against New Zealand

Lahore:In the second match of the five-match T20 series against New Zealand, Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam played an excellent century. Babar remained unbeaten after scoring 101 runs in 58 balls. Babar also hit 11 fours and 3 sixes in his innings. Due to this strong batting of Babar, the host Pakistan scored a huge score of 194 runs in front of New Zealand by losing just 4 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs game. This is Babar Azam’s third century in T20 International cricket. Earlier, this star batsman of Pakistan had scored an inning of 122 against South Africa in the year 2021. After this, Babar scored 112 against England in 2022. In this way, this is the third consecutive year when Babar’s bat has scored a century in T20 format.

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first

In the second T20 played against New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, the host Pakistani team won the toss and decided to bat first. Captain Babar and wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan, who got off to open for the team on a pitch that was helpful for the batsmen, got off to a blistering start. Babar and Rizwan shared a 99-run partnership for the first wicket.

During this, Rizwan got out after playing an inning of 50 runs. In his innings, Rizwan faced 34 balls which included 6 fours and 1 six. After Rizwan’s dismissal, Babar Azam kept the innings in check from one end.

Although after this the New Zealand bowlers made a strong effort to return by dismissing Fakhar Zaman and Sam Ayub for zero, but by then it was too late. After taking two consecutive wickets, Iftikhar Ahmed again took the lead of the Pakistani team. Iftikhar Ahmed played an excellent inning of 33 runs in 19 balls. In this innings, he also hit three sixes and a four.

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