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Lahore: National cricket team captain Babar Azam has said that he could not win the match due to failure in batting.
The captain of the national cricket team, Babar Azam, while talking to the media after the defeat by New Zealand in the T20 match, said that he was able to restrict New Zealand. Could not win the match due to batting failure.
He said that he could not perform well in batting. Tried to play positive cricket but could not get the target.
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Babar Azam said that he could not score more runs in the middle overs.
It should be noted that New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 4 runs in the fourth T20 match to take a 1-2 lead in the series.
In this match played at Gaddafi Stadium, the Pakistani team scored 174 runs in pursuit of New Zealand’s target of 179 runs.
Pakistan won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat first. Batting first, the visiting team scored 178 runs for 7 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Opener Tim Robinson played an innings of 51 runs, while Dan Foxcroft scored 34 runs, Tom Blundall scored 28 runs and captain Michael Bracewell scored 27 runs.
On behalf of Pakistan, Abbas Afridi dismissed 3 players while Zaman Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Amir and Osama Mir took one wicket each.
In reply, Pakistan got off to a disappointing start, with the duo of Babar Azam and Saeem Ayub failing to take a big turn.
Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Irfan out of the last two T20 matches against New Zealand
Fakhiz Zaman played a brilliant innings of 61 runs but could not lead the team to victory.
Among the other batsmen, Iftikhar Ahmed scored 23, Imad Wasim scored 22 unbeaten and Saeem Ayub scored 20 runs while Usman Khan scored 16 runs.
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