Pakistan chased the target in just 5.3 overs—Zim vs Pak

Ankeet Bhandari
Ankeet Bhandari
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ZIM VS PAK match summary
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Pakistan won the second T20I match against Zimbabwe by 10 wickets at Queens Sports Club and won the Zim vs Pak series by 2-0 with 1 match remaining.

Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first in the second T20I match of the 3-match T20I series.

The opening pair of Brian Bennett and Tadiwanashe Marumani played good cricket, adding a 37-run partnership for the 1st wicket.

Marumanu was dismissed by Abbas Afridi in the 5th over, which was just the beginning of the collapse of Zimbabwe against the quality pace attack of Pakistan.

None of the other batters added double-digit scores to the total as Zimbabwe, as the whole team was bundled out for just 57 runs inside 13 overs.

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Zimbabwe lost another 9 wickets for just 20 runs against Pakistan.

Sufiyan Muqeem bagged 5 wickets in just 2.4 overs while conceding only 3 runs at the economy rate, which is the second-best spell in the history of T20Is.

Abbas Afridi picked up 2 wickets while Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, and Salman Ali Agha bagged 1 wicket each, respectively.

In the run chase, Pakistan chased down the target in just 5.3 overs and won the match by 10 wickets with 87 balls remaining.

Saim Ayub added 36 runs in 18 deliveries while Omar Yusuf scored 22 runs in 15 deliveries and sealed the T20I series by 2-0.

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