The highest total of the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi venue is 598/9d scored by England against Pakistan in 2015. New Zealand team highest scorer at this ground is 262 scored against Pakistan in 2014. Pakistan’s highest score at this stadium is 570/6d against Australia in 2014. The last match between these two teams was played on November 16, 2018.
In that match, New Zealand won by 4 runs. Now both teams got equal wins in this test series which means it will be the series decider match. Here are some stats of top performed players in last two matches from both teams. Yasir Shah took 22 wickets, Hasan Ali took 11 and AY Patel took eight wickets. Babar Azam is the leading runs scorer with 202 runs. Haris Sohail scored 189 and Azhar Ali 168 so far.
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
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Pakistan team/playing XI
1 Imam-ul-Haq, 2 Mohammad Hafeez, 3 Azhar Ali, 4 Asad Shafiq, 5 Haris Sohail, 6 Babar Azam, 7 Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), 8 Yasir Shah, 9 Bilal Asif, 10 Hasan Ali, 11 Shaheen Afridi.
New Zealand team/playing XI
1 Jeet Raval, 2 Tom Latham, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 BJ Watling (wk), 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Tim Southee, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Ajaz Patel, 11 Will Somerville.
Form guide
New Zealand: LWDWW (Last five Tests, most recent first)
Pakistan: WLWDL
Match Timings: 10am start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00; Friday: Lunch 12.30-13.30; Tea: 15.30-16.00; Close: 17:30
Umpires – Paul Reiffel, Ian Gould
TV Umpires – Bruce Oxenford
Match Referee – Javagal Srinath
Reserve Umpire – Ahsan Raza
Match number – Test no. 2332
