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New Zealand all out by just scoring 211 against Pakistan in third ODI

Great bowling performance by Pakistan restricted New Zealand to just 211 score. They were able to last no more than 47 overs and were sitting back into the pavilion just under the 47 overs of their inning. McCullum who scored hundred plus in second ODI was departed on just 76 this time and same was the best score of this match by New Zealand. From Pakistan side Saeed Ajmal performed at his best by taking 4 wickets. Today’s performance was his career best performance. Pakistan is to bat next, hope they perform even better in order to chase the set score. This is the third and final One Day International (ODI) match of on going three match ODI series between […]

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First ODI between Pakistan and New Zealand, Afridi struck again

At the start of Match Pakistan lost two early wickets without runs but soon after Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal took the charge and taken the score to 101 in just first 15 overs. Overall Afridi scored 70 runs on 50 deliveries and Kamran Akmal remained not out and scored 67 runs out of 43 deliveries.  Khalid Latif scored 64 from 112 balls, this player had replaced shoib Malik in this match and this was his second match. Akmal’s inning include five boundaries and four valuable sixes. This aggressive style of Playing from Afridi and Akmal make Pakistan to set the target of 287 for the New Zealand. Pakistan lost nine wickets overall. New Zealand did not been able to […]

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ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Final New Zealand vs Australia

The final match of Cricket ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is being played tomorrow, Monday, 5 Oct, 2009 between the New Zealand and Australia. Saturday 3rd Oct, 09 New Zealand played the second semi-final of the championship and won it by 5 wickets making its way to the finals. On other hand back on Friday Australia won the first semi-final of champions trophy against England and got through to the final. Now as the finals are between New Zealand and Australia tomorrow Australia is favorite to win this match but well in game of cricket you never know, expecting a good fight between both teams, a good final match.

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ICC Champions trophy New Zealand wins semi-final against Pakistan

On Saturday the second semifinal of ICC Champions trophy was held between Pakistan and New Zealand and New Zealand won this by five wickets and got through to the finals. This was in fact the upset of the tournament because Pakistan team was favorite to win the second semi-final in opinion of many. But good batting from New Zealand got them through. Pakistan was able to score 233 runs over the 50 overs. Pakistan batting side lost much because of losing the first four wickets too early. On one time Pakistan cricket team was struggling at 183 for 7 wickets but two bowlers Tanveer and and Saeed Ajmal added the 35 valuable runs to the total for just 34 deliveries. […]

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Pakistan Wins ICC champions trophy match against West Indies

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. But this decision didn’t proved to be lucky for them and soon their all team was out by just scoring 133 runs. Thanks to Pakistani fast bowlers, fast bowlers Muhammad Aamir and Omer Gul taken 6 wickets collectively. Readers must recall that despite the leading players ended their boycott over contractual deputes last month, still the team was fully unable to do well in batting. Also in fielding they were not very well and on other hand the 58 runs partnership between Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi was enough to pave the teams way to convincing victory. Umar Akmal himself scored 41 runs which include six fours.  This way Pakistan […]