Babar Azam: “We came back well with the bat. But when the spinners came on, it was turning sharply. Credit to them. Rizwan and I wanted to take deep, and then analyse from the 40th over onwards. When Agha came, we thought of moving on. Today the spinners were getting a lot more help. The pitch in Karachi is always better in the second innings, but played differently today.”
Kane Williamson: “You never really know 100% [on what to do after winning the toss]. We had Ish Sodhi, who has been bowling really well. Even though we had a good partnership, maybe 300 wasn’t realistic… we got to a par total in the end. We knew it would be a tough chase. We knew we had to get a little bit out of the surface, and the two seamers set the tone for us.”
Devon Conway is the Player of the Match for his 101 off 92 balls: “We certainly were targetting 300, especially after the partnership [with Williamson]. I’ve got to give a lot of credit to Kane. I felt under pressure, and he kept on saying ‘If it’s tough now, it’s going to be tougher later’. Spinners landed in very good areas, and asked good questions.”
Pakistan vs New Zealand Highlights today. 2nd ODI, National Stadium, Karachi, Wednesday 11-1-2023, New Zealand tour of Pakistan 2022/23.
New Zealand win the toss and bat first.
Pakistan team: 1 Imam-ul-Haq, 2 Fakhar Zaman, 3 Babar Azam (capt), 4 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 5 Haris Sohail, 6 Salman Ali Agha, 7 Mohammad Nawaz, 8 Usama Mir, 9 Mohammad Wasim, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Naseem Shah
New Zealand team: 1 Finn Allen, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Ish Sodhi, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Lockie Ferguson
Head to Head In ODI’s: 108
Pakistan Won: 56
New Zealand Won: 48
Pakistan ODI Rankings: 5th
New Zealand ODI Rankings: 1st
Form guide
(Last five completed matches, most recent first)
Pakistan WWWWW
New Zealand LWLLL
Match Timings: 9:30 AM GMT | 2:30 PM Local
Umpires – Aleem Dar, Rashid Riaz
TV Umpire – Asif Yaqoob
Match Referee – David Boon
Reserve Umpire – Faisal Afridi
Match number – ODI no. 4502
