Babar Azam Pakistan vs New Zealand 3rd T20I Match: Pakistan cricket team is currently busy preparing for the T20 World Cup 2024. The New Zealand team is on a tour of Pakistan, where a series of 5 T20 matches is being played. Meanwhile, Pakistan has also faced defeat from New Zealand’s B team. The big thing is that New Zealand defeated Pakistan by a good margin, but Pakistan captain Babar Azam gave a childish statement after the match, which seems like a rant. He cited only 10 runs.
The first match of the series could not be completed due to rain.
The start of the 5 T20 match series between Pakistan and New Zealand was not good. The game was disrupted due to rain. Only two balls could be bowled in that match. After this, Pakistan registered a good win over New Zealand in the second match, but lost the third match by 7 wickets. After the match, Pakistani captain Babar Azam said that we probably scored 10 runs less. He said that it was not easy to field a new batsman. In the middle of the match, Pakistan’s wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan retired due to injury and returned back.
Babar Azam said, only 10 runs were left
Now understand that Babar Azam said that the Pakistani team scored 10 runs less. But if you look at the score card, you will see that even if the team had scored 10 to 15 more runs, nothing was going to happen. Batting first, Pakistan scored 278 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, when the New Zealand team came out to bat, they achieved the given target i.e. 279 in just 18.2 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. That means the team still had 7 wickets left at that time and 10 balls were yet to be bowled. That means, even if Pakistan team had scored 10 more runs, New Zealand team could have easily won the match by scoring 10 more runs.
Big players of New Zealand are not playing the series
Now just know why we are calling the New Zealand team on Pakistan tour as B team. In fact, most of the big players of New Zealand are currently in India and playing IPL, even after this the series between Pakistan and New Zealand has been decided. New Zealand made a B team and sent it to Pakistan, even the command of the team has been given in the hands of Michael Bracewell, who is performing the responsibility of captaincy for the first time. Players like Kane Williamson, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Trent Boult are playing IPL, but if there was no IPL then all these players would have been playing in Pakistan. Pakistan has also faced a crushing defeat from this B team. Three matches of the series have been played so far and two matches are left in the series, in which it remains to be seen which team will win.
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