Pakistan Beat Zimbabwe in 5th ODI of Bilateral Series

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 5 match One Day International series in Pakistan and the 5th and final match of the One day series was played on Sheikhupura Stadium, Sheikhupura, Pakistan on 2nd Feb. Pakistan has 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, C Chibhabha, Sean Williams, Ray Price

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

Zimbabwe batted poorly and kept losing wickets from the start of the game and was only able to make 181 runs and was bowled out in 45.4 over’s and with contributions of B taylor who made 49 runs in 78 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 62 runs in 100 balls and Elton C made 34 runs in 58 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score only 182 runs in 50 over’s to win this 5^th One Day International match and to white wash Zimbabwe 5-0 in the 5 match ODI series.

Zimbabwe batted superbly and was able to chase the target in only 31 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets and with the contributions of Y khan who made 63 runs in 51 balls with 8 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 124 runs in 100 balls and win that Pakistan won the Match by 7 wickets and with 174 balls still remaining to play in this game.

Pakistan won the series 5-0 and Y khan was the Man of the match and S malik was the man of the series.

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