Azhar Ali hit a solid hundred to assist West Pakistan win its initial One-Day International series in seventeen months with a thumping six-wicket win within the second ODI against Southern Rhodesia in Lahore on weekday (May 29).Ali created 102 off 104 balls for his second ODI century, serving to his aspect chase down a target of 269 in precisely forty seven.2 overs at the Qadhafi structure for a a pair of-0 lead within the three-match series.
For Southern Rhodesia, Sikander Raza had smashed AN 84-ball one hundred not out with eight fours and 3 sixes whereas Chamu Chibhabha's career-best ninety nine had eleven fours and a six, and spanned one hundred balls. They each contend key hands in lifting Zimbabwe’s score to 268 for seven when it absolutely was place in to bat.
Pakistan had won the primary match by forty one runs in Lahore. The third and final match will be contend at constant venue on Sunday.
The ODI win followed West Pakistan's 2-0 win within the preceding Twenty20 International matches within the series that marked the come of international cricket in Pakistan when a six-year gap.
Ali hit eight boundaries throughout his ton, going past his previous career-best score of a hundred and one against Asian country in Dacca in Gregorian calendar month. He fell with sixty required for the win, going away West Pakistan 209 for four in forty.1 overs, however Haris Sohail (52 not out off 49) and Shoaib leader (36 not out off 20), ensured there have been no more hiccups with AN unbroken 60-run stand.
Ali had ensured West Pakistan had a sound platform, swing on forty six for the gap wicket with Sarfraz Ahmed (22), eighty five for the third wicket with Asad Shafiq (39) and fifty six for ensuing with Sohail.
Earlier, Raza was in good kind, touching a flurry of boundaries and taking fifty nine runs within the last six overs to relinquish African country a decent total. This came when Chibhabha became the primary Zimbabwean slugger to be pink-slipped for ninety nine in associate degree ODI. Before Chibhabha 3 Zimbabwean batsmen -- Malcolm jazzman, Alistair Joseph Campbell associate degreed Andy Flower -- had all created ninety nine in an ODI for his or her country, however that they had all remained not out.
Zimbabwe, forced to create four changes when their regular captain Elton Chigumbura was suspended for 2 matches because of a slow over-rate within the previous game, was given a solid however sedate begin of eighty three by Chibhabha and Vusi Sibanda (13). Hamilton Masakadza, leading the team in Chigumbura's absence, fell for eighteen pink-slipped by Yasir Shah’s legspin, WHO additionally had Sean Williams (5), to end with two for forty in his 10 overs.
Chibhabha, whose previous best ODI score of seventy three came against archipelago at national capital in 2007, looked set for a maiden ODI hundred however was caught behind off a miscued sweep, with leader the bowler.
Raza then raised the tempo with some huge touching, taking seventeen off Mahomet Sami's forty eighth over before reaching his second one-day hundred within the final over.
Pakistan's last one-day series win was against state in United Arab Emirates in Dec 2013.
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