Pakistan Beat Zimbabwe in 1st ODI of Bilateral Series

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 5 match One Day International series in Pakistan and the 1st match of the One day series was played on National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan on 21st Jan.

Zimbabwe won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means Pakistan will bat first.

This is how Zimbabwe team and 11 was looking like in this match: Tatenda Taibu (wk), Elton Chigumbura, Stuart Matsikenyeri, Vusi Sibanda,Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya (c), Hamilton Masakadza, Chris Mpofu,Chamu Chibhabha, Sean Williams, Ray Price

And Pakistan team and 11 was looking like this in this match: Shoaib Malik (c), Mohammad Yousuf, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan,Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Misbah-ul-Haq, Iftikhar Anjum, Samiullah Khan,Sohail Tanvir, Nasir Jamshed

Pakistan batted extremely well and with the contributions of Y khan who made 79 runs in 68 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 116 runs in 100 balls, M Yusuf made 72 runs in 74 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls and Shoaib Malik and N jamshed both made contribution of 63 and 61 runs in 56 and 48 balls respectively and was able to post total of 347 runs in allotted 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets.

Zimbabwe was needed to score 348 runs in 50 over’s to win this 1^st one day international Match.

Zimbabwe batted poorly and were kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and was finally able to make only 243 runs in allotted 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets with the contributions of Vusi S who made 59 runs in 54 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 109 runs in 100 balls and Chamu C and S Williams who both made 52 and 51 runs respectively in 73 and 61 balls.

Pakistan won the game by 104 runs and now lead the series 1-0 with 4 more games to play.

N Jamshed was the man of the match for his great batting.

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