I am also confident that Pakistan should defend this 182 runs but I see a lot of confidence and passion in the young NZ squad and the Pakistan team needs to remain serious and vigilant and should not take things for granted thinking they are playing against an inexperienced New Zealand Squad.
Fakhar Zaman and Saim Ayub scored 47 runs each but I did not see any score from the rest of the Pakistan team. The opening partnership between Babar and Rizwan also failed in this match.
Failure of Babar and Rizwan is not a new thing in Pakistan T20. They either fail to score runs or score runs with slow Strike rate.
Pakistan recently lost to Afghanistan in T20I series as they did an experiment of sending a team that has been made from recent PSL. So far in this match Pakistan have firm grip over the match as New Zealand need another 129 runs to win the contest with 7 wikcets in hand.
Pakistan need to focus on winning this series first as Pakistan also is struggling side specially in T20 format. Its very much clear that this NZ team will give tough time to Pakistan.