Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025: New Zealand vs Pakistan Match Preview, Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025

3rd ODI • Bay Oval • Mount Maunganui

New Zealand

264/8 (42)

Pakistan

221 (40)

NZ won by 43 runs

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Date & Time

05 Apr, 03:30 AM IST

Venue

Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

TV/Streaming

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Match

3rd ODI,

Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Brown (New Zealand), Paul Reiffel (Australia), Michael Gough (England, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Pakistan elected to bowl

Pitch Report

: Sun is out, perfect conditions. This pitch was used during the T20Is. 90 mm rain fell yesterday. It does feel soft, has got a dry crust on it. They might not be going for bounce throws. The main surface has browned off and rolling has been done. It still doesn't look particularly hard, it will be interesting to see how it plays in the second innings. There is a softness under the top layer, might be some movement for the pacers. This could actually turn as well. Conditions pretty good out there but could be another tough day for the batters.

1st Innings

287Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

96.96Avg SR

2nd Innings

259Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

96.01Avg SR

Weather Update

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

5- 5

PAK

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

New Zealand

Pakistan

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Mark Chapman

NZ . BAT

132 Runs

1 Match

Babar Azam

PAK . BAT

78 Runs

1 Match

Daryl Mitchell

NZ . BAT

76 Runs

1 Match

Top Bowlers

Nathan Smith

NZ . BOWL

4 Wkts

1 Match

Irfan Khan

PAK . BAT

3 Wkts

1 Match

Jacob Duffy

NZ . BOWL

2 Wkts

1 Match

Player of the Match Michael Bracewell

59(40)

1/39

Player of the Series Ben Sears

PAK

Info

New Zealand

264/8 (42)

Batters

Rhys Mariu

95.08

lbw b Muqeem

Nick Kelly

33.33

c Shafique b Shah

Henry Nicholls

77.50

c Wasim b Akif Javed

Daryl Mitchell

81.13

c Rizwan b Akif Javed

Tim Seifert

89.66

c Tahir b Shah

Michael Bracewell

147.50

c Shah b Akif Javed

Muhammad Abbas

100.00

c Rizwan b Akif Javed

Mitchell Hay

100.00

c Azam b Ashraf

Ben Sears

166.67

Not out

Extras

(B: 4, LB: 5, NB: 2, W: 9)

TOTAL

(42 Ov, RR: 6.29)

264/8

Did not Bat

William O’Rourke, Jacob Duffy

Bowlers

EXT

Naseem Shah

6.00

Akif Javed

7.75

Faheem Ashraf

6.20

Mohammad Wasim

5.88

Agha Salman

5.33

Sufiyan Muqeem

5.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Nick Kelly

c Shafique b Shah

1-13

2.6

Henry Nicholls

c Wasim b Akif Javed

2-91

17.1

Rhys Mariu

lbw b Muqeem

3-103

20.2

Tim Seifert

c Tahir b Shah

4-164

31.1

Daryl Mitchell

c Rizwan b Akif Javed

5-186

34.2

Muhammad Abbas

c Rizwan b Akif Javed

6-211

37.2

Mitchell Hay

c Azam b Ashraf

7-244

40.2

Michael Bracewell

c Shah b Akif Javed

8-264

41.6

Pakistan

221/10 (40)

Batters

Abdullah Shafique

58.93

c Duffy b Sears

Imam ul Haq

14.29

Retired hurt

Babar Azam

86.21

c Seifert b Mitchell

Usman Khan

70.59

c Bracewell b Muhammad Abbas

Mohammad Rizwan

115.63

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

Agha Salman

100.00

c Duffy b Sears

Tayyab Tahir

106.45

c Seifert b Duffy

Faheem Ashraf

75.00

c Seifert b Bracewell

Naseem Shah

130.77

c Mitchell Hay b Sears

Mohammad Wasim

0.00

c Rourke b Sears

Akif Javed

25.00

Not out

Sufiyan Muqeem

33.33

c Muhammad Abbas b Sears

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 0, W: 19)

TOTAL

(40 Ov, RR: 5.53)

221/10

Bowlers

EXT

William O’Rourke

6.67

Jacob Duffy

5.71

Ben Sears

3.78

Michael Bracewell

4.88

Muhammad Abbas

5.33

Daryl Mitchell

7.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Abdullah Shafique

c Duffy b Sears

1-73

16.2

Usman Khan

c Bracewell b Muhammad Abbas

2-97

21.3

Babar Azam

c Seifert b Mitchell

3-108

23.4

Agha Salman

c Duffy b Sears

4-135

26.4

Mohammad Rizwan

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

5-169

32.4

Faheem Ashraf

c Seifert b Bracewell

6-176

33.4

Naseem Shah

c Mitchell Hay b Sears

7-212

37.2

Mohammad Wasim

c Rourke b Sears

8-212

37.3

Tayyab Tahir

c Seifert b Duffy

9-218

38.4

Sufiyan Muqeem

c Muhammad Abbas b Sears

10-221

39.6

Match Info

Date & Time

05 Apr, 03:30 AM IST

Venue

Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

TV/Streaming

FanCode

Match

3rd ODI,

Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Brown (New Zealand), Paul Reiffel (Australia), Michael Gough (England, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Pakistan elected to bowl

1 6 1 4 1 1

Over 37

Runs: 14

1 1wd W W 0 1lb 1

Over 38

Runs: 4

0 4 0 W 0 1

Over 39

Runs: 5

1 0 1 0 0 W

Over 40

Runs: 2

All Overs

Player of the Match Michael Bracewell

59(40)

1/39

Player of the Series Ben Sears

Commentary

That's all from the match as I, Lavil Saldanha alongside Bidipto take your leave. We hope you enjoyed our coverage here on Sportskeeda and look forward to seeing you all soon. SEE YA!

Michael Bracewell is handed the trophy and he poses with the silverware along with his team mates. A great series for them as they end their international home summer on a high!

Michael Bracewell (captain, New Zealand): Many guys came in from the domestic circuit. Seeing the guys coming in and doing a fine job is a good positives. We need to ask them a bit as well and as a Black Caps unit we want to make sure we have nailed down a few things. We are playing to win and winning the series is important so great to see them coming in and doing the job right away. It was the same in the 20-20 series and it carried into the ODIs. There were pretty sporting wickets and it was great to see the young guys coming through and playing the way they would like to. Great to see different guys step up at different times. As a batting unit we have done well to get to an above par total and the way the guys bowled was also great to watch.

Mohammad Rizwan (captain, Pakistan): A couple of positives: Babar Azam batted well, Sufyaan Muqeem did a good job while Naseem also showed his skill with the new ball. We know the conditions here are tough but they have been professional even in Pakistan and did a fine job. If you ask me, we need watch the new ball and we will discuss about the things we learnt and discuss like that. If you lose you cannot say that. Credit to New Zealand, they capitalised on the moments in the middle. We are going to leave the past and enjoy PSL. We didn't deliver to the expectations of the people on the tour and we will hope to entertain them during the PSL.

Ben Sears (Player of the Series, 10 wickets and 2 fifers): "It was a good couple of days, grateful to get the opportunity! It was pretty exciting to get my first wicket and first fifer on the same day! It's awesome! Bowling first change after such a wonderful new-ball bowling pair was great! We kept the pressure going through the middle, and that was the plan to get the length right."

Michael Bracewell (Player of the Match, 59 runs off 40 balls, 1/39 in 8 overs and an outstanding catch): "It was a great game of cricket! Reduced one, but enjoyable one. With the reduced number of resources, you get to put the foot down a little bit earlier. Happy to be on the back of some good batting earlier on. I thought the way all of us bowled on a tricky bowling surface was pretty impressive! My body is getting a little bit older, but I just managed to get my fingers under that one and caught it!"

7:51 pm local time (12:21 pm IST): It is time now for the post-match presentation!

7:46 pm local time (12:16 pm IST): New Zealand beat Pakistan by 43 runs and win the three match ODI series 3-0

Pakistan: 221 all out in 40 overs

Babar Azam: 50(58b) | Ben Sears: 5/34 (9 overs)
Mohammad Rizwan: 37(32b) | Jacob Duffy: 2/40 (7 overs)

New Zealand do a whitewash over Pakistan in this ODI series. They have played Pakistan six times this year in this format and have won on all six occasions! Talk about a feat like that, where one side completely obliterates another across formats. Throughout the tour, Pakistan have only won the one T20I game, which also happens to be their only win over New Zealand across formats spanning three months (February, March, April).

Pakistan didn't have a positive start, with Imam Ul Haq being struck on his jaw with a throw coming from the outfield. Abdullah Shafique and Babar Azam put on a partnership but once the former was dismissed, the scoring rate dipped a bit and that took a blow to their chances of winning this game. Later, Babar got to his half century but threw his wicket away. With the game slipping away, Rizwan also lost his wicket and in no time, Pakistan were short of batters in the middle. The tails couldn't wag enough and the tourists slumped to yet another defeat.

The New Zealand bowling line up did a fine job of restricting the batters in the middle. Muhammad Abbas, Michael Bracewell and Daryl Mitchell rolled their arm over and got a wicket each, while Jacob Duffy sealed the fate of the game by picking up two wickets in his last over of the spell. Ben Sears picked up his second five wicket haul in row and became the first Kiwi bowler to do so.

Time now for the presentation ceremony

overs

221 /10 score

runs

Sufiyan Muqeem *

2 (6)

Akif Javed

1 (4)

Ben Sears

5 /34

Sufiyan Muqeem has been dismissed for 2 runs off 6 balls

39.6 Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, SEARS GETS BACK-TO-BACK FIFERS! NEW ZEALAND CLEAN-SWEEP THE SERIES. Slow and into the surface again around off. Sufiyan backs away and thumped it. But the connection was not proper. Mid-off then got into the act and took a decent catch to end the match!

39.5 Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, good length and just over off. Sufiyan had a swipe at that across the line but failed to lay bat on ball.

39.4 Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, short and slow on leg-stump. Gloved to the right of the keeper off the pull shot on the back foot! No run.

39.3 Ben Sears to Akif Javed, OH! Slower ball into the pitch around off. Heaved leg-side off the back foot. But deep square-leg could not quite get around to his left. One run.

39.2 Ben Sears to Akif Javed, Oh! Full and angling in down leg. But Akif actually got followed. He swung hard but failed to make contact.

39.1 Ben Sears to Sufiyan Muqeem, short and slow on leg-stump. Pulled to the fine-leg off the back foot for a single to rotate strike.

Pakistan now have their last batting pair in the middle. They need 46 runs to win in 18 deliveries

overs

219 /9 score

runs

Sufiyan Muqeem *

1 (2)

Akif Javed

0 (2)

Jacob Duffy

2 /40

38.6 Jacob Duffy to Sufiyan Muqeem, full and slow on leg-and-middle. Sufiyan swings across the line by backing away and picks up a run to backward square.

38.5 Jacob Duffy to Sufiyan Muqeem, short and wide outside off. Sufiyan backed away and tried to connect, but he was nowhere near it!

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