The next match will be NZ vs PAK of T20 World Cup 2016 at PCA Stadium, Mohali on 22 March 2016. The match will start 7:30 pm. Currently New Zealand is on the top of the points table by winning all the 2 matches they have played so far, one is against India and another one is against Australia. In both the matches they have performed extremely well with the bat and the ball too specially the performance of the spinners are remarkable. In the tournament so far Pakistan have won one match against the qualifier team Bangladesh by a big difference but lost one against India.
If New Zealand win this match than they will be qualified for the semi finals of T20 World Cup 2016 and If Pakistan looses the match then it will be very tough for them to proceed into the knockouts of the tournament.
If we talk about the performance of both the team New Zealand is way ahead Pak team. They have won 4 matches out of 5 recently played T20 matches where Pakistan won only 3 out of 5. Also, kiwis are on the 3rd position in the ICC T20 team Rankings where man in greens team are on no. 7. So these ranking shows the team history and the performance but as we all know anything can happen in the game of cricket.
For the upcoming NZ vs PAK Match of T20 World Cup 2016 here is the squads which is announced by the officials :-
New Zealand Squad :
- Kane Williamson (Captain)
- Corey Anderson
- Trent Boult
- Grant Elliott
- Martin Guptill
- Adam Milne
- Mitchell McClenaghan
- Colin Munro
- Nathan McCullum
- Henry Nicholls
- Luke Ronchi (wk)
- Mitchell Santner
- Ish Sodhi
- Tim Southee
- Ross Taylor
Pakistan Squad :-
- Shahid Afridi (captain)
- Mohammad Hafeez
- Shoaib Malik
- Mohammad Irfan
- Rumman Raees
- Wahab Riaz
- Mohammad Nawaz
- Babar Azam
- Iftikhar Ahmed
- Mohammad Amir
- Umar Akmal
- Sarfraz Ahmed
- Imad Wasim
- Anwar Ali
- Khurram Manzoor
Here is the New Zealand vs Pakistan match details :-
Group 2, Super10 Round | ||
Vs | ||
Venue | PCA Stadium, Mohali | |
Date | 22 March 2016 | |
Time | 7:30 pm (Local Time) | |
Toss | New Zealand opt to bat first |
The live score of NZ vs PAK match of T20 World Cup will be shown below as soon as match starts.
Match Update: New Zealand won the match by 22 runs and entered into tournament semi-finals.
Man of the match – MJ Guptill
Here is the scorecard of the match :-
New Zealand innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
MJ Guptill | b Mohammad Sami | 80 | 61 | 48 | 10 | 3 | 166.66 |
KS Williamson* | c Shahid Afridi b Mohammad Irfan | 17 | 32 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 80.95 |
C Munro | c Khalid Latif b Shahid Afridi | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 116.66 |
CJ Anderson | c Shoaib Malik b Shahid Afridi | 21 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 150.00 |
LRPL Taylor | not out | 36 | 26 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 156.52 |
L Ronchi† | c Shoaib Malik b Mohammad Sami | 11 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 157.14 |
GD Elliott | not out | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
Extras | (lb 4, w 3) | 7 | |||||
Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 180 | (9.00 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
Mohammad Amir | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 10.25 | 8 | 5 | 1 | (1w) |
Mohammad Irfan | 4 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 11.50 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
Mohammad Sami | 4 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 5.75 | 14 | 2 | 1 | (1w) |
Imad Wasim | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 10.00 | 7 | 6 | 0 | (1w) |
Pakistan innings (target: 181 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
Sharjeel Khan | c Guptill b Milne | 47 | 26 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 188.00 |
Ahmed Shehzad | c Guptill b Santner | 30 | 51 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 93.75 |
Khalid Latif | c Elliott b Santner | 3 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42.85 |
Umar Akmal | c Guptill b Milne | 24 | 37 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 92.30 |
Shahid Afridi* | c Anderson b Sodhi | 19 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 211.11 |
Shoaib Malik | not out | 15 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 115.38 |
Sarfraz Ahmed† | not out | 11 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 137.50 |
Extras | (lb 5, w 4) | 9 | |||||
Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 158 | (7.90 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
MJ Santner | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | 12 | 4 | 0 | (3w) |
CJ Anderson | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 | 6 | 2 | 0 | (1w) |
AF Milne | 4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 6.50 | 10 | 3 | 0 | |
MJ McClenaghan | 4 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 10.75 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
GD Elliott | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
IS Sodhi | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 6.25 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
Hope you enjoyed New Zealand vs Pakistan match of the tournament. Stay tune for the all updates.