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New Zealand beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in T20I series

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New Zealand beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in T20I series

Tim Seifert blasted 45 from 22 balls and Finn Allen hit 38 from 16 as New Zealand cruised to a five-wicket win over Pakistan on Tuesday in a rain-shortened second Twenty20 cricket international.Captain Salman Ali Agha made 46 as Pakistan reached 135-9 in a match reduced to 15 overs per innings after a delay for wet outfield. Shaheen Shan Afridi then bowled a maiden to start New Zealand’s innings. But Seifert and Allen hit seven of the next 12 balls for sixes as New Zealand launched an assault which helped them clinch the match and a 2-0 series lead with 11 balls remaining. Story continues below this ad Seifert and Allen hit five sixes apiece as New Zealand sped towards its target. After the scoreless opening over Allen cleared the boundary on the first, third and sixth bal...

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New Zealand’s Tim Seifert bats during the second Twenty20 international cricket match between New Zealand and Pakistan at University of Otago Oval in Dunedin on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP New Zealand’s openers went on a six-hitting blitz on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) to thrash Pakistan by five wickets and go 2-0 up in their Twenty20 series.The home side reached 137-5 with 11 balls to spare in Dunedin to take control of the five-match series after Pakistan posted 135-9 off 15 overs in a rain-reduced second match.New Zealand’s highlight was a ferocious opening stand between Tim Seifert and Finn Allen in which seven of the first eight scoring shots were sixes.Remarkably, Seifert played out a maiden off Sha...

Winning Champions Trophy or beating India? Pakistan player has his say

Just a week before India face Pakistan in Dubai, vice-captain Salman Ali Agha has said that winning the Champions Trophy is a bigger goal for his team than beating their arch-rivals in a match in the group stages. The India-Pakistan match is usually the marquee game in any International Cricket Council (ICC) tournament and garners a high set of viewers in a cricket calendar that relishes these clashes. When Agha was asked about whether he viewed the clash as more important than winning the Champions trophy, the 31-year-old made it clear that winning one game wouldn’t matter if Pakistan wouldn’t be able to lift the trophy in a tournament with home advantage. “The Pakistan-India match is the biggest, but winning the Champions Trophy is more important. If we beat India but don’t win the tourn...