Pakistan-Zimbabwe-Sri Lanka tri series has started from today. In the first match, Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 5 wickets. Babar Azam and captain Salman Aga flopped badly, but the Pakistan team, despite faltering, somehow won the match by 5 wickets. Babar could not even open an account. Zimbabwe had scored 147 runs while playing first, in reply Pakistan team ensured victory by 5 wickets in the last over.

Zimbabwe was given a good start by Brian Bennett and T Marumani. There was an opening partnership of 72 runs between the two. Bennett scored 49 runs and Marumani scored 30 runs. But after that wickets kept falling continuously, but in the meantime captain Sikandar Raza played an unbeaten inning of 34 runs.

Babar out on ‘0’, Fakhar Zaman shines

Babar Azam is coming back after ending the century drought in the recent ODI series against Sri Lanka. Now he could not even open his account against Zimbabwe. For this he has to get trolled again. Whereas captain Salman Aga could score only 1 run.

Pakistan had lost 4 wickets at the score of 54. After that Fakhar Zaman and Usman Khan made a partnership of 61 runs in 39 balls and brought Pakistan back into the match. Fakhar played an inning of 44 runs in 32 balls. On the other hand, Usman Khan returned unbeaten after scoring 37 runs. Mohammad Nawaz’s cameo inning of 21 runs also played an important role in Pakistan’s victory. Nawaz scored 21 runs in 12 balls, during which he also hit 2 fours and a six.

Zimbabwe has defeated Pakistan thrice in the last 7 T20 matches and now came close to defeating them once again. But it lost the match which lasted till the last over.

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