Pakistan vs New Zealand 1st ODI Cricket Highlights - 8th Dec, 2014

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Pakistan finally stopped losing their One Day Internationals, beating New Zealand by 3 wickets and with 3 balls remaining. It was their first win in the format in just under a year, Having lost their last six ODI games and will come with as welcome relief with the World Cup insight. It looks like the game had got away from them falling to 130-6 at the 30 over, chasing 247 to win. But a seventh-wicket partnership of a 110 from Harris Sohail and Shahid Afridi propelled their team to the target for a narrow victory. Harris' unbeaten 85 is his highest score in his five ODIs and Afridi managed his Highest ODI score since July 2013 with 61 from 51 deliveries. In New Zealand's innings batsmen Ross Taylor became the first Kiwi batsmen to score three ODI Centuries in a row with a 105*. Taylor joined two Pakistanis and three South Afrcians achieve that same feet. No one has ever scored four hundreds in a row, He'll get the chance to set that record when the two teams will meet again on Friday in Sharjah.

Teams:

Team Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq - Umar Gul - Sarfraz Ahmed - Shahid Afridi - Mohammad Hafeez - Asad Shafiq - Wahab Riaz - Mohammad Irfan - Younis Khan - Ahmed Shehzad - Haris Sohail

Team New Zealand: Daniel Vettori - Ross Taylor - Nathan McCullum - Kyle Mills - Kane Williamson - Adam Milne - Dean Brownlie - Tom Latham - Jimmy Neesham - L Ronchi - AP Devcich

Important Events Of The Match:

Ross Taylor scored fabulous hundred. (105r, 135b, 9 fours, 1 sixes)
Shahid Afridi scored astonishing fifty. (61r, 51 balls, 7 fours, 1 sixes)
Haris Sohail scored his highest score in his fifty ODI match. (85r, 109 b, 5 fours, 1 sixes) He was man of the match too.
Mohammad Irfan got 3 wickets

Pakistan vs New Zealand 1st ODI Highlights

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