New zealand versus pakistan afridi azam sparkle as pakistan win by six wickets at birmingham

Afridi came back with extraordinary figures of 3/28 from his ten overs to confine New Zealand to 237/6 in spite of a profession best 97 not out from Jimmy Neesham. In answer, regardless of a couple of bobbles forthright Azam (101 not out) stood firm and alongside Haris Sohail (68) got the side home in 49.1 overs. 

Medium-term downpour deferred the begin in Birmingham by an hour yet no overs were lost as New Zealand chose for bat first under somewhat cloudy skies. The move exploded backward in a split second with Mohammad Amir hitting with his first bundle of the day bowling Martin Guptill for 5. It was an Afridi show post that as he bowled with power, exactness and pace giving literally nothing endlessly in an arresting spell that had greats, for example, Wasim Akram wax expressive in the discourse box. 

He began off by getting Colin Munro to edge one straight to Sohail at slips for 12 in his second finished and afterward got the huge wicket of Ross Taylor (3) before long. Dumbfounding from the wicket, he constrained Taylor to snack at a length conveyance only outside off stump and the thick edge was conveniently taken by skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed jumping on his right side. 

The left-arm pacer at that point had Tom Latham edging behind the stumps for 1 as New Zealand slipped to 46/4 in the thirteenth over. Such was Afridi's greatness that before the finish of seven over his figures read a wonderful 7-3-11-3. 

It was down to Kane Williamson indeed to unfaltering the ship and he found a capable partner in Neesham to take New Zealand forward. The pair sewed a critical 37-keep running for the fifth wicket yet exactly when it appeared they will get their side out of beset waters, Shadab Khan hit with a flat out pearler. He drew Williamson (41) forward, took care of business the ball to turn away only enough to get the outside edge and Sarfaraz by and by committed no error. 

At 83/5, it felt New Zealand would fall in a store yet Colin de Grandhomme and Neesham had different thoughts. The couple controlled their characteristic forceful style of play and chose to put a cost on the wicket. The run rate did not traverse mark over and over again yet the two players guaranteed there were no further losses for the following 122 balls.