Pakistan Batted well to Beat New Zealand in ICC CWC 1999

In the 24th match of the ICC cricket world cup, New Zealand was against the Pakistan team. This game was played on County Ground, Derby, England on 28th May, 1999. Both teams were playing very good cricket, so we can expect to see a great game.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means Pakistan will bat first and they will set a target for New Zealand to chase later in the game.

This is how the New Zealand team and 11 were looking like: Stephen Fleming (c), Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Craig McMillan, Gavin Larsen, Chris Harris, Dion Nash, Adam Parore (wk), Roger Twose, Geoff Allott, Matt Horne

And Pakistan team and 11 were looking like: Shoaib Akhtar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Azhar Mahmood, Saleem Malik, Wasim Akram (c), Ijaz Ahmed, Saeed Anwar, Moin Khan (wk), Saqlain Mushtaq

Pakistan started superbly and splendidly with Shahid Afridi and Saeed anwar and were off to a flying start but they lost Shahid afridi on the team score of 40 runs in 5.3 over’s and then Saeed Anwar on team score of 51 runs in 9.5 over’s. After that batted well and they were able to post the total of 269 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in allotted 50 over’s with Inza Mam Ul Haq top scored with 71 runs in 61 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 118 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed 270 runs to win this game.

New Zealand Started poorly and lost their first 5 wickets only on the team score of 71 runs in 19.4 over’s and eventually they were only able to make 207 runs In 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and Skipper St. Fleming top scored for them who made 69 runs in 100 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won this game by 62 runs and Inza Mam ul Haq was adjudged as Man of the Match for his great knock.

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