New Zealand's bowling has been excellent, they have not allowed Pakistan batters to open their bats. Till now Rizwan is holding the fort and if he gets out it will be the end of Pakistan. Already 17 overs have ended and the runs on the scoreboard are not what Pakistan expected. They needed to increase their run rate if they wanted a target that was easy to defend, a target above 150 would be good for them. Still a lot of batting left and the captain can come and hit a few sixes the same can be said for Iftikhar, but he is busy rotating the strike.
Mohammad Rizwan is the only one who was holding but others do nothing even no one go above 20 runs. Yes we can say that the bowling of New Zealand was good but we can also say that tha Pakistan batting is also weak. They need to practice more.
Now the game is on bowling of Pakistan. If Pakistani bowlers will bowl well and try to collect more wickets so they have cahnces to win the match otherwise New Zealand will win today match again. By the way that is surprising that Shaheen Shah Afridi collected 2 wickets in the first overs. This may pressurized the New Zealand team. So let's see.
Today was the match of New Zealand and Pakistan, and as expected, this match was also won by New Zealand. In this series, the New Zealand team wants to do a whitewash on the Pakistan team because after such a long time they got this opportunity.
In the last four years from 2019, the Pakistan team didn't lose any series with New Zealand under Babar Azam's captaincy, and also in this match, Babar Azam was not able to make a half-century but in the last three matches of this series, Babar Azam continually making consecutive half centuries but in this match, he can't did it.
This time Mohammad Rizwan made 90 runs but we did not see any other batsmen playing their part. That is why Pakistan were only able to make less than 160 odds runs and the target was again easy for the New Zealand team.