Iftikhar Ahmed hit a triumphant six on the last ball he looked against New Zealand in Christchurch on Friday and Mohammad Nawaz scored a great 38 of 22 balls to control Pakistan to a five-wicket triumph in the T20 tri-series last.
The guests, who had picked to bowl first subsequent to winning the throw, were 64 – 1 after the initial 10 overs of their innings. By the last finished, they stacked up 168 runs with three balls in excess in their 163-run pursue.
Nawaz was named the player of the counterpart for his unbeaten 38 runs off 22 balls.
Both New Zealand and Pakistan involved the competition as a last check up for the T20 World Cup in Australia.
Having passed on New Zealand’s success over Bangladesh on Wednesday, Dark Covers commander Kane Williamson returned for the present challenge, supplanting Martin Guptill, while bowler Blair Tickner was in for Adam Milne.
Pakistan rolled out one improvement from the group which pressed past Bangladesh on Thursday with bowler Haris Rauf supplanting Mohammad Hasnain.
“We need to put out another great execution before we go to the World Cup,” said New Zealand bowler Tim Southee, who was making his 100th T20I appearance.
