Published: Dec 19, 2014, 05:54 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 19, 2014, 06:51 PM (IST)
Dec 19, 2014
New Zealand lost their second wicket with 86 runs on the board in the 20th over when Dean Brownlie was trapped leg-before off the bowling of Zulfiqar Babar to depart on a score of 34 from 51 balls, with skipper Kane Williamson batting on the other end on 40 from 55 deliveries. The pair had added 66 runs for the second wicket.
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.
