A rollicking 99 not out by Mitch Hay lifted New Zealand to 292-8 within the second one-day worldwide towards Pakistan in Hamilton on Wednesday.
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Hay’s lusty hitting snapped New Zealand’s mid-innings doldrums as he raced to a career-best rating which included 22 off the ultimate over by Mohammad Wasim.
The wicketkeeper-batsman smacked seven fours and as many sixes in his 78-ball innings after going into the center with the hosts struggling at 132-5 within the twenty seventh over.
New Zealand gained the opening recreation within the three-match sequence by 73 runs, having triumphed 4-1 within the previous Twenty20 sequence.
Mohammad Rizwan gained the toss and opted to bowl with overcast skies and a green-tinged wicket favouring the bowlers.
But it surely was the novice Black Cap openers Nick Kelly and Rhys Mariu who took management early.
Their flying begin posted 50 in six overs earlier than Kelly, in solely his second worldwide, was caught behind for a hard-hitting 31 which included 4 fours and two sixes.
After a assured begin by debutant Mariu, he appeared unsettled by Kelly’s dismissal.
He was dropped on 16 and finally went for 18 off 25 when a vanguard lobbed as much as Babar Azam at mid-off in Mohammad Wasim’s opening over.
Wasim and Haris Rauf slowed the scoring and it took Henry Nicholls and Daryl Mitchell till the sixteenth over to get New Zealand to the 100 mark.
The introduction of spin introduced Mitchell’s innings to a halt for 18.
He danced down the wicket to Sufyan Moqim’s fifth supply and was overwhelmed by the flight, leaving wicketkeeper Rizwan with a easy stumping.
Nicholls went for 22 within the following over, trapped in entrance by an in-swinger from Akif Javed to have New Zealand 102-4 within the seventeenth over.
Michael Bracewell and Muhammad Abbas added solely 30 runs within the subsequent 10 overs when Bracewell was caught behind off Wasim for 17.
Pakistan-born Abbas and Hay set about restoring the innings with a affected person 77-run partnership till Abbas was caught at mid-wicket off Moqim for 41.
Nathan Smith fell for eight and Ben Sears for six.
Moqim was the decide of the Pakistan bowlers with 2-33 whereas Wasim took 2-78.
Pakistan contributed to the New Zealand complete with 20 wides amongst 32 extras.
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