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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Tim Southee scored a hat-trick yesterday as the Black Caps trounced Pakistan by five wickets at Eden Park.
It was New Zealand’s first international win following disastrous tours of Bangladesh and India in the past two months, and the first win in the first of this week's three T20s against Pakistan who are on a two-month tour.
The second T20 match against Pakistan will be in Hamilton tomorrow.
"We don't want to get too carried away, but it's a good start to the series," T20 captain Ross Taylor told the New Zealand Herald last night.
"We haven't played as well as we'd have liked, but I'm sure the win will get a bit of confidence into the team and hopefully we can continue with that."
The win was achieved on the back of three key factors: Tim Southee's five wickets in just seven balls, which powered through Pakistan's middle order, after they'd been sent in; Martin Guptill's clean hitting in his maiden T20 half-century off only 23 balls; and Taylor seeing the job through with a brisk unbeaten 39.
There were 2.5 overs unbowled in New Zealand's chase for 144. In this shortest form of the game, that's a bath and it would have been more so had it not been for some late hitting by bowlers Wahab Riaz and Umar Gul.
Thirty-one came from the last two overs. Without that, Pakistan would have been in worse shape.
Tim Southee scored a hat-trick yesterday as the Black Caps trounced Pakistan by five wickets at Eden Park.
It was New Zealand’s first international win following disastrous tours of Bangladesh and India in the past two months, and the first win in the first of this week's three T20s against...
Tim Southee scored a hat-trick yesterday as the Black Caps trounced Pakistan by five wickets at Eden Park.
It was New Zealand’s first international win following disastrous tours of Bangladesh and India in the past two months, and the first win in the first of this week's three T20s against Pakistan who are on a two-month tour.
The second T20 match against Pakistan will be in Hamilton tomorrow.
"We don't want to get too carried away, but it's a good start to the series," T20 captain Ross Taylor told the New Zealand Herald last night.
"We haven't played as well as we'd have liked, but I'm sure the win will get a bit of confidence into the team and hopefully we can continue with that."
The win was achieved on the back of three key factors: Tim Southee's five wickets in just seven balls, which powered through Pakistan's middle order, after they'd been sent in; Martin Guptill's clean hitting in his maiden T20 half-century off only 23 balls; and Taylor seeing the job through with a brisk unbeaten 39.
There were 2.5 overs unbowled in New Zealand's chase for 144. In this shortest form of the game, that's a bath and it would have been more so had it not been for some late hitting by bowlers Wahab Riaz and Umar Gul.
Thirty-one came from the last two overs. Without that, Pakistan would have been in worse shape.
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