Hamilton: Mitch Hay’s No. 99 team beat Bakistan on Wednesday, leading 2-0 in the one-day international series and defeating New Zealand with 84 shots.
New Zealand beat Pakistan 292-8 in the second three-day one-day international match in Hamilton’s 42nd match.
Hay’s desire hit, and the host beat the career-best ODI knock, including Mohammad Wasim’s final 22 times.
He downplayed his situation because “just swing from the hip and hope,” but Hay’s captain Michael Bracewell and rival captain Mohammad Rizwan saw it as a performance of matching definitions.
“We lost some wickets and then Mickey hit the ball in the end was excellent, and in the whole situation, we got into the sum of competitiveness,” Bracewell said.
Rizwan lamented his side could not handle the swing and bounce of the New Zealand bowler. “Mitch Hay, he’s doing well, that’s why they set good goals on the board,” he said.
Hay scored seven quarters and many sixes in his 78 innings, hitting New Zealand with a dangerous 132-5 win from 27 wins.
As an answer, Pakistan had early trouble when O’Roak let Abdullah Shafique slip away for the first time in the third round.
Babar Azam and Imam-ul-Haq quickly followed, rejected by Jacob Duffy, waving Pakistan 9-3 midway through the sixth match.
Ben Sears, who finished 5-59, won two wickets in his first end – Salman Agha, nine out of nine, while Mohammad Rizwan lowered visitors to 32-5 with five shots.
Tayyab Tahir and Faheem Ashraf put in 33 of 9 matches, but it was 72-7 when Sears removed Tahir and Wasim.
One third of Haris Rauf, who was irritatingly hit by O’Rourke’s rising helmet, had to retire.
It was his concussion replacement Naseem Shah who started to show a fight with Ashraf’s defender 60.
Both are in their fifties with Ashraf scores of 73 and Naseem 51.
Earlier, newbies Black Caps bottle openers Nick Kelly and Rhys Mariu hit 54 after Rizwan asked to hit the ball.
Kelly was hit 31 times with a tough 31, including four two-quarters and two sixes, while Mariu scored 18.
Henry Nicholls and Daryl Mitchell were over 100 in Game 16.
Mitchell was caught by Rizwan in Sufyan Moqim’s match and Nicholls won 22 more times in future games.
Michael Bracewell and Muhammad Abbas’s trod water added 30 runs in just 10 games until Bracewell was arrested behind Wasim 17.
Pakistan-born Abbas and Hay set out to restore the situation with the patient 77-RUN partnership until Abbas received 41 times.
Moqim is the draft pick for Pakistani bowlers, with a 2-33 record.
The third and final match was held on Friday at Mount Moenganu.
