Late runs lift Black Caps in second ODI
- Dave Worsley
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 5 hours ago
The Black Caps have won the ODI against Pakistan with a match to spare, taking the second match by 84 runs thanks mainly to a 99 not out by keeper Mitch Hay.
Pakistan decided to field first and the Black Caps initally looked good as the top to middle order all made starts. The lowest score being 17 by captain Michael Bracewell.
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For the home side there was only Daryl Mitchell and Henry Nicholls who could be regarded as real senior members of the side with Bracewell only playing just over 30 ODI games in his career.
Debutant Rhys Mariu made 18 and Nick Kelly 31 at the top of the order while Nicholls looked solid for 22 and Mitchell 18 before being stumped.
Hay was superb in the way he started slow and built the innings with Mummad Abbas for a 77 run partnershi.
Abbas made 41 in just his second game after 52 in game one a few days earlier.
For Hay it was a career-high in just his sixth ODI. His 99 not out came in 78 balls with seven sixes and seven fours smashing plenty of runs in the last few overs for a total of 292-8, a figure which was looking a long way off when Abbas was dismissed at 209 in the 40th over.
The third highest score for New Zealand was 32 by the new batter, extras as the visitors bowlers continued to be wayward
Pakistan were then all out in the 42 over for 208 runs. with the only scoring of note coming from Faheem Ashraf with 73 and No 10 Naseem Shah with 51 from 44 balls.
Ben Sears finished with 5-59 from 9.2 overs, his first ODI wickets. Jacob Duffy was next best with 3-35 from eight and Will O'Rourke and Nathan Smith took one each.
The third and final ODI is Saturday at Mt Maunganui.