#5 Misbah-ul-Haq: 93* – Napier, 2011
Pakistan’s incumbent Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq played another of his typical ODI innings where he built in the beginning and smashed later. New Zealand posted 262/7 in whose reply the tourists ran into trouble at 84/3. Misbah arrived and added 89 with another veteran Younis Khan, in which the latter contributed 53.
He got only eight singles in his first twenty deliveries and his first boundary took as many as 44 balls to come. With three overs remaining and the target 24 runs away, Misbah went after the medium pace of Scott Styris, whom he first slapped for a six over mid-wicket and next chose mid-on to add four more to his tally, which took him to 92.
He took a single next ball and faced only another delivery – a dot. A Sohail Tanvir bashing in the next over gave Pakistan the game with two overs remaining. They won by 2 wickets and Misbah finished as the Man of the Match, having batted at a strike rate of 102, with seven fours and one maximum.
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