Pakistan Beat Zimbabwe in 3rd ODI of Bilateral Series

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 5 match One Day International series in Pakistan and the 3rd match of the One day series was played on Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan, Pakistan on 27th Jan.

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

This is how Zimbabwe team and 11 was looking like in this match: Tatenda Taibu (wk), Elton C, Stuart M, Vusi Sibanda, Brendan Taylor, Prosper U (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 A, Samiullah Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Nasir Jamshed.

Pakistan batted very well and was able to score 272 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets with the contributions of S afridi who made 85 runs in 52 balls with 2 4’s and 6 sixes at magical strike rate of 163 runs in 100 balls faced and Misbah Ul Haq made 44 runs in 50 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 88 runs in 100 balls faced.

Zimbabwe was needed to score 273 runs to win this 3^rd One day international match and to stay alive in this 5 match series as Pakistan already won the 1stv 2 ODI matches.

Zimbabwe started very well but were no way close to the required run rate and was only able to make 235 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with the contributions of S Williams who made 71 runs in 101 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls and B taylor made 55 runs in 76 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won this 3^rd ODI match by 37 runs and series as well 3-0 with 2 more games to play.

Shahid A was the Man of the match for his great batting.

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