HARARE, Zimbabwe (Sept. 16) – Pakistan set a huge target of 199 for Zimbabwe in first Twenty20 international underway at Harare Sports Club here on Friday.
Zimbabwe won the toss and invited the hosts to bat first hoping to get early wickets to pressurize Pakistan batting; but Pakistani openers Muhammad hafeez and Asad Shafiq got off to a flyer taking the scores to 72 in just 6 overs without losing any wickets.
Asad Shafiq got run out on total score of 74 after contributing significant 38 runs. Muhammad Hafeez continued his superb form and scored briskly to take the score to 148 before being victim to Chibhabha after contributing 71 runs off just48 balls.
Rameez Raja (Jr.), Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanveer played handy knocks at the end contributing 22, 22 and 17 respectively.
Zimbabwe now need 199 runs in allotted 20 overs with an average run rate of almost 10 runs per over.
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