Pakistan vs New Zealand
Pak vs NZ, ICC champions trophy 2025: The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has been bugle with Pakistan vs. New Zealand match. The Champions Trophy in Karachi, Pakistan began on February 19. Pakistan captain Rizwan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Pakistan had chosen to bowl first in view of the pitch of Karachi, but this bet was reverse to the Pakistani team. In the first 10 overs, the Pakistani fast bowlers looked effective but then deviated from their line and length, which was taken advantage of by Kiwi batsmen.
The New Zealand team had lost their 3 big wickets for just 73 runs in the 17th over but after that Young and Latham took the front and took a brilliant partnership of 118 runs for the fourth wicket to reach New Zealand to 191 runs. Will Young returned to the pavilion after scoring 107 runs in the 38th over. After Will Young, wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Latham also scored a bang century and contributed significantly to New Zealand to 320 runs. Tom Latham scored an unbeaten 118 runs in a rapid manner. In the last overs, Glenn Philips scored 61 runs off 39 balls with the help of 3 fours and 4 sixes.
Embarrassing record broken
Pakistan used 6 bowlers against New Zealand but only three bowlers could take the wickets. Together these three bowling could take only 5 wickets. Nasim Shah and Haris Rauf managed to take 2-2 wickets while Abrar Ahmed got 1 success. Haris Rauf’s account definitely came in 2 but he also proved to be the most expensive bowler. Rauf scored 83 runs in 10 overs. He remained just 17 runs away from the figure of looting 100 runs. With this, the fast bowler broke the embarrassing record of 8 -year -old Hasan Ali. Haris Rauf has now become the second highest run -of -the -most run -of -the -off Pakistani bowlers in the Champions Trophy. Wahab Riyaz holds the record for the most runs in the Champions Trophy.
Pakistani bowlers who scored the most runs in Champions Trophy
- 87/0 – Wahab Riaz vs India, Birmingham, 2017
- 83/2 – Harice Rowf vs. New Zealand, 2025
- 70/1 – Hasan Ali vs India, Birmingham, 2017
- 68/0 – Shaheen Afridi vs New Zealand, Karachi, 2025
- 66/0 – Imad Wasim vs India, Birmingham, 2017
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