Cricket

November The Thirteen : Pakistan all set to encounter India in the finals

Pakistan versus New Zealand was all expected kinda match today with the speculated result witnessing the Pakistan come up as victor over the laborious New Zeland side.

In the  T20 World Cup 2022 today Pakie victory by seven wickets must not be a surprise for the viewers as well as the rival New Zealand. The bowing and batting supremacy over New Zealand.

With sharp fifties from Babar & Rizwan, Pakistan never looked out of the match easily chasing the mere target of 153 runs.  Significantly the Black Caps have never been seen beating Pakistan in semi finals of a world-cup encounter.

Taking on New Zealand in the first semi final, Pakistan offered a sad defeat to New Zealand today and this story of the New Zealand debacle started right from the toss poing. Losing the toss, Pakistan took control of the semifinal with the main pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi who succeeded in removing Finn Allen in the first over itself and then Devon Conway went back to pavilion being run out by Shadab Khan. This wicket was the outcome off the last ball of the powerplay.

The skipper Kane Williamson with forty six runs and Daryl Mitchell with a fifty three could not really looked intended to give a solid target to Pakistan and finishing at 152/4 in their quota of 20 overs was the help they gave to the south Asian rivals to victory.

Both of the Pakie openers making half centuries made sure Pakistan reach to the target with not much hustle bustle.  Skipper Babar Azam with fifty three along with Mohammad Rizwan with fifty seven added one hundred and five runs for the first wicket. This is the beginning which made Pakistan all set to seal the win for Pakistan. Eventually the men in green came out victorious with five balls to go keeping seven wickets in hand.

Parijat Tripathi

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