Pakistan vs New Zealand 1st ODI: Prior to the 2025 Champions Trophy, Pakistan has suffered a bad defeat at its home. In the first match of the tri -series, New Zealand crushed Pakistan’s team by 78 runs in Lahore. For the Kiwi team, Glenn Philips played a brilliant innings of 106 not out in just 74 balls. Pakistan got a double shock in this match. The team was embarrassing and star fast bowler Haris Rauf was also injured. Now it is difficult to play his next match.
Talking about the match, Kiwi captain Mitchell Santner won the toss, and decided to bat first. The beginning was bad. In the very first over, Shaheen Afridi sent Will Young to the pavilion. After this, Rachin Ravindra hit five fours, but he also started walking by scoring 25 runs in 19 balls. New Zealand’s two wickets fell for just 39 runs. After this Derryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson took the front. Both shared a 95 -run partnership for the third wicket.
After more than 400 days, Kane Williamson, who came out playing ODIs, scored 58 runs in 89 balls with the help of seven fours. At the same time, Deril Mitchell scored 81 runs in 84 balls. After this, the show of Glenn Philips was seen. Philips scored an unbeaten 106 off 74 balls. 6 fours and 7 sixes came out of his bat. Michael Bracewell also supported him well. He scored 31 runs in 23 balls with the help of a fours and three sixes. In this way, New Zealand scored 330 runs in 50 overs.
Pakistan started well in response. Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman came to start the innings and both added 52 runs. However, Babur had only 10 runs in it. Babur scored 10 runs off 23 balls and was caught out of Bracewell. Then the wickets kept falling from one side and Fakhar Zaman kept tuneing the bowlers from one side.
Kamran Ghulam was dismissed for 18 in 32 balls, Mohammad Rizwan scored three runs in 11 balls. At the same time, Zaman scored an innings of 84 runs in 69 balls. 7 fours and 4 sixes came out of his bat. Salman Ali Aga 40, Tayyab Tahir 30 and Khushdil Shah were dismissed for 15 runs. All these together could not take the match close.
Shaheen Afridi of lower order played 10, Naseem Shah 13 and Abrar Ahmed played useful innings of 23 runs and reduced the gap of defeat. Haris Rauf did not land for batting due to injury. In this way, Pakistan’s team was reduced to 252 runs.