IN PICS: ICC World Cup 2019, New Zealand vs Pakistan, Match 33

Mohammad Amir set the ball rolling for Pakistan as the left-arm pacer struck on his first ball to dismiss Martin Guptill in the second over. @AFP

New Zealand, who are second on the 10-team table with 11 points, elected to bat and kept the same team for the fifth match in a row.Pakistan, who are seventh in the table with five points, also kept faith with the team that beat South Africa at Lord’s on Sunday. @AFP

Ross Taylor then edged a Shaheen delivery to wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed to depart for three and Tom Latham departed in simliar fashion. @AFP

Lanky paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi took three quick wickets to leave New Zealand in desperate trouble at 46-4. @AFP

Overnight rain delayed the start by an hour but the umpires decided the match would remain at 50 overs per side. @AFP

Ross Taylor then edged a Shaheen delivery to wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed to depart for three and Tom Latham departed in simliar fashion. @AFP

Kane Williamson, who has two hundreds against his name in World Cup 2019, and Jimmy Neesham then tried to steady the ship as the two put up a 37-run stand. @AFP

Mohammad Amir set the ball rolling for Pakistan as the left-arm pacer struck on his first ball to dismiss Martin Guptill in the second over. @AFP

New Zealand, who are second on the 10-team table with 11 points, elected to bat and kept the same team for the fifth match in a row.Pakistan, who are seventh in the table with five points, also kept faith with the team that beat South Africa at Lord’s on Sunday. @AFP

However, Shadab Khan produced a beautiful delivery to entice him into giving an edge to wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed and he departed for 41. @AFP

Lanky paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi took three quick wickets to leave New Zealand in desperate trouble at 46-4. @AFP

Shaheen’s first wicket was that of an opener Colin Munro, who was caught by Haris Sohail in the slips for 12. @AFP

de Grandhomme, who had earlier scored a match-winning fifty against South Africa, notched up his second fifty of World Cup 2019 before being dismissed for 64. @AFP

Neesham was then joined by Colin de Grandhomme and the two staged a recovery for the Blackcaps. The pair, who came together at 83-5, added 132 for the sixth wicket, repairing the damage after a collapse following Kane Williamson’s decision to bat in overcast conditions in Birmingham. @AFP

Neesham, meanwhile, remained unbeaten on 97. The left-hander hit five fours and three sixes in his 112-ball stay in the middle and helped New Zealand post a respectable total of 237 on the board. @AFP

Mohammad Hafeez joined Babar Azam after the fall of Imam and the Hafeez-Babar pair added 66 runs together to take Pakistan past hundred. @AFP

Hafeez was caught by Lockie Ferguson in the deep off the bowling of New Zealand captain Kane Williamson for 32 to leave Pakistan 110-3. @AFP

Chasing 238 runs to win, Pakistan were off to a brisk start as Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq hit four fours in first 13 balls. @AFP

However, Trent Boult cut short the opening partnership as he dismissed Fakhar on the final ball of the third over to give New Zealand their first breakthrough. @AFP

Pakistan then lost their second opener as Martin Guptill took a stunning catch, diving forwards as Lockie Ferguson scalped his first wicket, dismissing Imam for 19 in the 11th over. @AFP

While Sohail was run out, his 126-run stand partnership was vital in Pakistan’s six-wicket win over New Zealand. The win kept Pakistan’s hopes of making it to the semifinals alive and ended New Zealand’s unbeaten streak in World Cup 2019. @AFP

Babar, meanwhile, brought up his third fifty-plus score in the ongoing World Cup and along with it, became the second fastest to score 3000 ODI runs. @AFP

While Mitchell Santner Haris Sohail, the left-hander, who had scored a match-winning 89 in Pakistan’s last game against South Africa, he did not give his wicket away and scored his second successive fifty in the World Cup 2019. @AFP

Babar though notched up his maiden World Cup hundred and remained unbeaten as Pakistan registered their second successive win. @AFP