Practical Hafeez, half-centurion Babar set up Pakistan win as Pooran attack to no end
Heavy downpour clears out third T20I, Pakistan lead series 1-0
Mohammad Rizwan made 46 preceding Mohammad Hafeez helped seal a seven-run triumph with 4-1-6-1 against West Indies
Pakistan 157 for 8 (Azam 51, Rizwan 46, Holder 4-26) beat West Indies 150 for 4 (Pooran 62*, Hafeez 1-6) by seven runs
Nicholas Pooran made his most noteworthy T20I score of 62 runs off 33 balls, however with no other West Indian striking at a rate over 107, the hosts, pursuing 158, went somewhere around seven runs against Pakistan in the second T20I in Guyana.
West Indies were choked by Mohammad Hafeez's precise offbreaks and Shadab Khan's blend of leg breaks and googlies, and the deficiency of standard wickets kept them behind in the pursuit. Hafeez's four-over spell at an economy of 1.50 procured him the Player-of-the-Match grant, however Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, as well, made solid cases to that prize.
Azam, the lone other half-centurion on the day, scored a 40-ball 51 that assisted Pakistan with cruising through the center overs. With Rizwan, who made a 36-ball 46, Azam put on a 67-run second-wicket organization. It set the vibe for Pakistan to post an absolute past the 157 they in the long run accomplished, yet Jason Holder - who picked a four-wicket pull - and Dwayne Bravo continued taking wickets in the demise overs to keep the guests' hard-hitting center and lower request calm.
Rizwan, Babar show their class
In this match,with Sharjeel Khan succumbing to a promising 16-ball 20, it was well inside the powerplay that Pakistan's two most productive players of the last year got together. At first, Azam was the more slow one between the two as Rizwan rebuffed Akeal Hosein for two sixes and followed it up with a four off Bravo.
Azam then, at that point discovered two limits off Romario Shepherd - playing rather than Andre Russell - through the leg side to get his day rolling, and regardless of amassing a couple of dabs from there on, he figured out how to break the groove. Hayden Walsh's googly was pulled for six, his half-tracker was cut for four, and in about a couple of overs, Azam had dashed away to 41 out of 33 balls.
This while, Rizwan was content touching the ball for ones and twos while Azam switched gears. Yet, in the fifteenth over, Rizwan succumbed to an immediate hit four runs low on a 10th T20I fifty. Azam had tapped a ball to the empty midwicket and called ahead of schedule for the two, yet a top exertion from Evin Lewis to hit the non-striker's stumps while the hitters hastened for the second sent Rizwan back. Nonetheless, Rizwan's 46 was sufficient for him to acquire the differentiation of being the most productive T20I hitter in any schedule year with five months still to go in 2021. In the accompanying over, Azam hit Shepherd for six to arrive at his fifty of every 38 balls. A downpour interference trailed.
Pakistan breakdown after downpour
The downpour break was short, and when Pakistan got back with four overs to go with the score 134 for 2, there was a certified possibility for them to focus on more than 180. In any case, Azam fell right then, at that point, out got behind in a hostile choice where it seemed the bat might have hit the ground - and not the ball - but rather the umpire considered it reasonable.
Bravo then, at that point got Hafeez and Fakhar Zaman one after another, trailed by Holder eliminating Hasan Ali and Sohaib Maqsood, with Shepherd taking a one-gave shocker by the limit line. In the end, Pakistan added only 23 in their last 24 balls to reach 157.
An exercise from the teacher
With right-hander Andre Fletcher taking strike in the pursuit, it was Hafeez's twist that started off the procedures. He struck second ball when Fletcher hoped to safeguard a conveyance that he had expected would turn in, leaving the direct outside off empty. The ball flashed through, and thumped the off stump back, making his re-visitation of the XI - instead of the harmed Lendl Simmons - fairly disappointing.
That twist would be a prevailing component in the pursuit, and Hafeez would keep on bowling in the powerplay against the two remaining handers Evin Lewis and No. 3 Chris Gayle. Hafeez was for the most part full on off and center stump, and with the help of some sharp work from the infielders, he squeezed out 13 speck balls in his first spell of three overs where he surrendered only five runs, including one lady.
After that, when Pooran came in as the new player in the 12th, Hafeez was brought back infront the left-hander, where he kept the pressing factor up with five spots and one single. Taking all things together, his four-over spell went for just six runs and procured him a wicket - his most prudent T20I spell ever.
Lewis seizes up at a urgent time
Having seen Fletcher and Gayle fall without having a lot of effect in a 31-run powerplay, Lewis took the moderate course almost immediately. At the point when Usman Qadir threw it up from the get-go in his spell, Lewis went for the trudge clear for six that aided break his shackles. Before long, Lewis had kept quick bowler Mohammad Wasim's more slow ball for six over long off, and in Shimron Hetmyer's organization it appeared to be that the asking rate - that was beginning to contact ten - would be cut down.
Nonetheless, Hetmyer was battling with his planning, and scoring at a strike pace of just around 100. He needed to join Lewis in tracking down those hotshots, and lost his center stump attempting to hit Wasim over cow corner, out for a 18-ball 17.
With Pooran, the new player at No. 5, simply beginning to get his eyes in, West Indies experienced another misfortune as Lewis was grounded by a stomach cramp on 35, and needed to leave the field resigned hurt with the condition perusing 82 needed off 36.
Pooran power
Pollard strolled in as Lewis left, and the main thing he did with Pooran was to see Shadab Khan's last over out. From that point forward, Pollard saw from the non-striker's end as Pooran attacked an unruly sixteenth over that uncovered the youngster's inability.
All the more such overs were required if West Indies were to swing the outcome in support of themselves. Notwithstanding, just one of the hitters could connect among bat and ball. While Pooran crushed Hasan for three sixes in the seventeenth and nineteenth overs, and Shaheen Shah Afridi for consecutive fours in the eighteenth, Pollard continued discovering the defenders.
The remainder of those sixes off Hasan raised Pooran's fifty, in 28 balls, yet just 11 from Pollard's initial 12 balls implied West Indies required 20 off the last six conveyances. Shaheen surrendered only two off the initial four, and took Pollard's wicket, and that implied he had done what's necessary to seal Pakistan's triumph, however he got hit by Pooran for four and six off the game's last two conveyances.
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