Rahul Tiwari
khelja|24-03-2025
Nz vs pak: Pakistan's team lost the fourth match against New Zealand by 115 runs. With this, the visiting team has lagged behind 3–1 in the five-match series. It was expected that Pakistan would play well in the fourth match like the previous match. But this did not happen, while he suffered another embarrassing defeat. This is Pakistan's third major defeat under the captaincy of Salman Ali Aga. In such a situation, let us tell you in detail about this fourth match played at Bay Oval of Mount Munganui ....
In the fourth match played at Mount Munganui, Pakistan (NZ vs Pak) captain Salman Ali Aga decided to bowl by winning the toss. However, his decision did not prove to be correct. Pakistan bowlers were fiercely beaten. This can be gauged from the fact that New Zealand lost their first wicket for 59 runs and at that time only 4.1 overs were thrown.
After this, the second wicket fell for 108 runs and 8.1 overs at that time. New Zealand batsmen continued their aggressive stance against Pakistan and completed 200 runs in the 18th over. Even after this, Kiwi batsmen did not stop. However, the last two overs scored less than expected runs.The team of New Zealand (NZ vs Pak), captained by Michael Bracewell, batted first and scored 220 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 6 wickets. For New Zealand, Finn Alan scored a half -century off 19 balls, while Tim CIFT scored 44 off 22 balls.
Captain Michael Bracewell scored 46 runs from 26 balls. His strike rate was around 177. CIFT batted at a strike rate of 200 and Finn Alan at a strike rate of 250. Haris Rauf was the most successful bowler from Pakistan. He gave just 27 runs in 4 overs and took 3 wickets. The economy rate of all the other bowlers was 10 or more.It was expected that Pakistan (NZ vs Pak) would perform like its previous match. But Pakistan's batting was also bad like his bowling.
Abdul Samad scored the most runs. He scored 44 runs off 30 balls. Apart from him, Irfan Khan scored 24 runs. The rest of the batsmen could not do anything special. 9 batsmen were dismissed by making a single digit. Jacob Dafi took the most 4 wickets for New Zealand. Zakari Foulcase took 3 wickets. The remaining three bowlers took one wicket each.