With the help of Mark Chapman’s 132 and Derryl Mitchell’s 76 runs and 199 runs, New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 73 runs by scoring 344 runs for nine wickets in the first ODI. Chapman took the Kiwi team out of the crisis by scoring his third ODI century. New Zealand lost three wickets in 13 overs.
Pakistani -origin Mohammad Abbas, who played for New Zealand, scored 50 off 24 balls, which is the fastest half -century of any player who made her ODI debut. For Pakistan, Babar Azam scored 78 off 83 balls, but after his dismissal, Pakistan suffered a setback and lost seven wickets in an interval of 22 runs. Usman Khan and Abdullah Shafiq shared an 83 -run partnership for the first wicket. Pakistan’s score in the 39th over was 249 for three wickets, but the entire team was all out for 271 runs due to Batting.
Chapman played a match winning 132 runs in the match and with this he has joined the club of veteran players. Earlier, New Zealand’s Ross Taylor had scored an unbeaten 131 off 124 balls against Pakistan in Pallekele in the 2011 ODI World Cup and now Chapman has scored the highest score for New Zealand against Pakistan. Chapman broke Taylor’s record daily after 14 years.
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