New Zealand win Tri Series

The New Zealand Black Caps have one their first ever Tri Series on foreign soil after a four wicket win over Pakistan in Dambulla, Sri Lanka yesterday.

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat on a wicket that looked like it would offer the quicks so assistance early on.

The New Zealand bowlers found their rhythm early on and had four Pakistan players back in the changing rooms with the score only at 56. Younis Khan(70*), Shoaib Malik(34) and Rashid Latif(20) saw Pakistan to a defendable 198 however it should have been more with the last over starting at 198/8 and Tuffey bowled a double wicket maiden to see them all out in the last ball of the innings.

Vettori again bowled economically to take 1-32 off his 10 overs and Tuffey and Oram grabbed 3 wickets each.

New Zealand got off to a great start with a 50 run partnership between openers Fleming and Nevin before Nevin fell for 17. Fleming(65) then added another 50 with Vincent(13). Styris and Fleming put the foot down and added quick runs before both fell in the space of 2 balls to Mohammad Sami in his first over of his second spell.

Fleming innings included 3 massive sixes and 5 fours. Chris Cairns and Jacob Oram both got into double figures but it was left to Chris Harris and Brendon McCullum to see the Kiwis home with 4.4 overs to spare.

Sami was the best of the bowlers with 3-42 and Shabbir Ahmed and Razzaq had one wicket each.

Pakistan will be left thinking 'we lost that one' after extras were the second highest score for New Zealand which included 25 wides and 9 no-balls.

RESULT: New Zealand won by 4 wickets
SERIES: New Zealand wins the 2003 Bank Alfalah Cup
SUMMARY: Pakistan 198 all out(Khan 70*, Malik 34, Tuffey 3-32, Oram 3-38) lost to
New Zealand 200/6(Fleming 65, Extras 44, Sami 3-42, Razzaq 1-20)
MAN OF MATCH: Fleming
MAN OF SERIES: Shoaib Malik


Posted by Tamara