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Dean Brownlie, Kane Williamson bring up 50-run 2nd-wicket stand

Brownlie and Williamson were batting on scores of 35 and 30 respectively.

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson was batting on a score of 35 at the end of the 17th over © AFP (File Photo)
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson was batting on a score of 35 at the end of the 17th over © AFP (File Photo)

Dec 19, 2014

New Zealand batsmen Dean Brownlie and Kane Williamson brought up the 50-run stand for the second-wicket during the fifth and final One-Day International (ODI) against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi on Friday. Williamson and Brownlie were batting on scores of 35 and 30 respectively, with New Zealand reaching a score of 77 for the loss of one wicket at the end of the 17th over, having lost Martin Guptill off the bowling of Mohammad Irfan in the third over of the innings.

New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat. While New Zealand decided to bring in Anton Devcich and Nathan McCullum in place of Corey Anderson, who has been woefully out of form in the series so far, as well as Daniel Vettori, who had to fly home to attend a wedding. Pakistan decided to replace Mohammad Hafeez and Sohail Tanvir with Asad Shafiq and Zulfiqar Babar.

The five-match series is currently level 2-2 after New Zealand won a thriller of of a game in the fourth ODI at the same venue on Wednesday. A series victory will be a great morale booster for the winners, with both teams set to play a tournament or two more after the end of the series before the onset of the World Cup. The two sides had earlier played a three-Test series and a two-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series, both of which were drawn 1-1.

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