Pakistan Beat Zimbabwe in 4th ODI of Bilateral Series

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 5 match One Day International series in Pakistan and the 4th match of the One day series was played on Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, Pakistan on 30th Jan. Pakistanahs already won the series but still two remaining games are important for both teams and both will try to win it.

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

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

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

Zimbabwe batted well and was able to post 244 runs in allotted 50 over’s with the contributions of Zim Wicket keeper batsman T Taibu who made 51 runs in 76 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 67 runs in 100 balls, S Williams made 48 runs in 56 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls and Keith D who made 45 runs in 32 balls with 3 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 141 runs in 100 balls faced.

Pakistan was needed to score 245 runs in 50 over’s to win this 4^th One Day International match and to take lead 4-0 series in this 5 match ODI series with 1 more game to play.

Pakistan batted superbly well and was able to score the target in only 47 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets only and with the contribution of M Yusuf who made 108 runs in 111 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls faced.

Pakistan won the Match by 7 wickets in hand and M yusuf was the Man of the Match.

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