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Match Report – PAK vs NZ 2nd T20I, April 20, 2024

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Toss Pakistan choose to bowl vs New Zealand

Pakistan gained the toss and selected to bowl within the second T20I in opposition to New Zealand in Rawalpindi on Saturday night.

Babar Azam introduced an unchanged facet from the primary T20I, which was rained out after simply two balls on Thursday. Luckily, the forecast for the second T20I is evident.
New Zealand made one pressured change to their XI from the earlier match. They changed right-arm medium-pace bowler Josh Clarkson, who’s unwell and did not journey to the bottom, with offspin-bowling allrounder Cole McConchie.

McConchie has to this point performed 9 T20Is, the final of which got here in opposition to UAE in August 2023. Though he has solely 84 runs in seven innings with the bat, his numbers with the ball are stable: seven wickets at a mean of twenty-two.71 and an financial system fee of simply 7.17.

In the meantime, Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Azam Khan has been dominated out of all the collection as radiology reviews confirmed a grade one tear in his proper calf muscle.

Pakistan: 1 Babar Azam (capt), 2 Saim Ayub, 3 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 4 Usman Khan, 5 Iftikhar Ahmed, 6 Irfan Khan, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Mohammad Amir, 10 Naseem Shah, 11 Abrar Ahmed

New Zealand: 1 Tim Robinson, 2 Tim Seifert (wk), 3 Dean Foxcroft, 4 Mark Chapman, 5 James Neesham, 6 Michael Bracewell (capt), 7 Cole McConchie, 8 Ish Sodhi, 9 Jacob Duffy, 10 Ben Sears, 11 Ben Lister


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