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

4th T20I • Bay Oval • Mount Maunganui

New Zealand

220/6 (20)

Pakistan

105 (16.2)

NZ won by 115 runs

Info

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Date & Time

23 Mar, 11:45 AM IST

Venue

Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

TV/Streaming

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Match

4th T20I,

Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Brown (New Zealand), Wayne Knights (New Zealand), Kim Cotton (New Zealand, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Pakistan elected to bowl

Pitch Report

PitchFlat Track Pitch

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionHigh Scoring

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

168Avg Runs

5Avg Wkts

157.66Avg SR

2nd Innings

148Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

131.37Avg SR

Weather Update

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

6- 4

PAK

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

New Zealand

Pakistan

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Tim Seifert

NZ . WK

152 Runs

4 Matches

Mark Chapman

NZ . BAT

119 Runs

4 Matches

Finn Allen

NZ . BAT

117 Runs

4 Matches

Top Bowlers

Jacob Duffy

NZ . BOWL

11 Wkts

4 Matches

Haris Rauf

PAK . BOWL

8 Wkts

3 Matches

Ish Sodhi

NZ . BOWL

5 Wkts

4 Matches

Player of the Match Finn Allen

50(20)

Player of the Series Ben Sears

PAK

Info

New Zealand

220/6 (20)

Batters

Tim Seifert

200.00

c Khushdil Shah b Rauf

Finn Allen

250.00

c Nawaz b Afridi

Mark Chapman

150.00

b Rauf

Daryl Mitchell

126.09

c Khan b Rauf

Jimmy Neesham

60.00

c Haris b Ahmed

Mitchell Hay

50.00

c Haris b Ahmed

Michael Bracewell

176.92

Not out

Zakary Foulkes

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 1, W: 13)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 11)

220/6

Did not Bat

Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, William O’Rourke

Bowlers

EXT

Shaheen Afridi

12.25

Khushdil Shah

12.00

Abrar Ahmed

10.25

Haris Rauf

6.75

Abbas Afridi

12.67

Shadab Khan

12.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Tim Seifert

c Khushdil Shah b Rauf

1-59

4.1

Mark Chapman

b Rauf

2-108

8.1

Finn Allen

c Nawaz b Afridi

3-134

10.1

Jimmy Neesham

c Haris b Ahmed

4-139

11.2

Mitchell Hay

c Haris b Ahmed

5-149

13.2

Daryl Mitchell

c Khan b Rauf

6-205

18.2

Pakistan

105/10 (16.2)

Batters

Mohammad Haris

100.00

b Rourke

Hasan Nawaz

25.00

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

Agha Salman

20.00

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

Irfan Khan

150.00

c Bracewell b Duffy

Shadab Khan

25.00

b Foulkes

Khushdil Shah

85.71

c Neesham b Foulkes

Abdul Samad

146.67

st Mitchell Hay b Sodhi

Abbas Afridi

25.00

c Allen b Neesham

Shaheen Afridi

66.67

c Mitchell Hay b Foulkes

Haris Rauf

46.15

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

Abrar Ahmed

25.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 0, W: 10)

TOTAL

(16.2 Ov, RR: 6.43)

105/10

Bowlers

EXT

William O’Rourke

7.25

Jacob Duffy

5.00

Zakary Foulkes

6.25

Jimmy Neesham

7.00

Ish Sodhi

2.2

6.43

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Mohammad Haris

b Rourke

1-2

0.2

Hasan Nawaz

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

2-8

1.1

Agha Salman

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

3-9

1.6

Shadab Khan

b Foulkes

4-26

4.1

Irfan Khan

c Bracewell b Duffy

5-42

5.6

Khushdil Shah

c Neesham b Foulkes

6-42

6.2

Abbas Afridi

c Allen b Neesham

7-43

7.2

Shaheen Afridi

c Mitchell Hay b Foulkes

8-56

9.6

Haris Rauf

c Mitchell Hay b Duffy

9-80

13.5

Abdul Samad

st Mitchell Hay b Sodhi

10-105

16.2

Match Info

Date & Time

23 Mar, 11:45 AM IST

Venue

Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

TV/Streaming

FanCode

Match

4th T20I,

Pakistan vs New Zealand 2025

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Brown (New Zealand), Wayne Knights (New Zealand), Kim Cotton (New Zealand, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Pakistan elected to bowl

1 0 0 1wd 1wd 0 W 0

Over 14

Runs: 3

6 2 1wd 0 1 0 0

Over 15

Runs: 10

4 1 1 2 6 1

Over 16

Runs: 15

0 0

Over 17

Runs: 0

All Overs

Player of the Match Finn Allen

50(20)

Player of the Series Ben Sears

Commentary

10:45 PM local time (3:15 PM IST): That's all from this clash, with New Zealand sealing the series. The action and caravan now moves to Wellington, where the last game of this series will be played. This has been Lavil Saldanha alongside Arya signing off. Switch tab on Sportskeeda to follow the afternoon IPL contest between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and look forward to seeing you all again. SEE YA!

Michael Bracewell (captain, New Zealand): Very happy with the performance, bouncing back a day after the Eden Park performance was good. It shows the benefit of the guys at the top, they got us a good start and we had a little whoopsie in the middle but Daryl and myself did the job in the middle. We were able to get the ball to shape both ways, wonder what would have happened if it was hit. All the seamers bowled really well, there wasn't spin but always great to see Ish ripping the ball and get the last wicket

Finn Allen is the Player of the Match, here is what he had to say: Yeah pretty happy. Few other guys might have deserved it more than me but I will take it. Yeah it's a pretty frickle game. The game gets you sometimes. It's about starting fresh every game. Yeah I think there seamers bowled into the wicket in the middle overs. We wanted to cash in on the spinners a bit more. Seifert makes it a bit difficult for me to get my rhythm but its great to see him belting the ball out of the park.

Agha Salman (captain, Pakistan): They bowled really well and outplayed us. It was swinging and turned as well, it did a lot in the second innings but that is no excuse for us. The total was a bit too much with the ball swinging around. We have our last game and we will have to regroup and see what we have to do to come good in the next game

10:30 PM local time (3:00 PM IST): New Zealand beat Pakistan by 115 runs and take an unassailable series lead of 3-1

Pakistan: 105 all out in 16.2 overs
Abdul Samad: 44(28b)* | Jacob Duffy: 4/20 (4 overs)
Irfan Khan: 24(16b) | Zakary Foulkes: 3/25 (4 overs)

An absolute demolition job with the ball in hand. New Zealand has dominated and how. They won the game by 115 runs and have also won the series with a match to spare. A lot of work for Pakistan to do, who looked as if they were going to be knocked over for under 50. They will want their batting line up to stand up in such conditions and not wither away.

Will O'Rourke started things off in an aggressive fashion, managing Haris to nick one onto his stumps. That was the catalyst for an explosive reaction to propel things ahead as a procession followed, which had Pakistan 43/7 at one point in time. Irfan Khan and Abdul Samad were the only two batters to put on a fight as Pakistan were skittled and submitted to defeat.

The Kiwi pacers were on fire and did a fine job. Jacob Duffy picked up four wickets, Zakary Foulkes added three to his kitty while Will O'Rourke, Ish Sodhi, and Jimmy Neesham picked up a wicket each. A complete and comprehensive performance from everyone in the bowling attack and they will want to carry the same momentum with the ball in hand into the next contest in Wellington as well.

Let's now go down to here what the captains and the Player of the Match have to say

Last wicket to fall was of Abrar Ahmed

Rohit: "Pakistan cricket ~ 1 minute up and next minute down. Team has changed, but they have kept the motto alive."

16.2 Ish Sodhi to Abdul Samad, WICKET! The keeper things he is certainly up to something here. The back foot could be on the line here. Flighted leg break pitching on a fuller-length around off and turns away sharply to beat the outside edge of Samad on the attempted defence, there is clearly nothing behind the popping crease as confirmed by the TV umpire and that brings us to the end of the game. New Zealand wins by 115 runs. Fantastic work by Mitchell Hay and he knew straightaway that Samad hadn't made his crease.

16.1 Ish Sodhi to Abdul Samad, flighted on a fuller-length a shade outside off, Samad tries to launch it down the ground and gets beaten.

An expensive last over for Foulkes, but he did the job with the ball in hand. He will be delighted with his first spell, where he was given three overs and he struck at regular intervals

overs

105 /9 score

runs

Abdul Samad *

44 (28)

Abrar Ahmed

1 (4)

Zakary Foulkes

3 /25

15.6 Zakary Foulkes to Abdul Samad, on a fullish-length around the off-stump channel, driven down the ground towards the long-on region for a single.

Pakistan Scored 100 runs in 15.5 overs

15.5 Zakary Foulkes to Abdul Samad, SIX! Slapped from his presence by Samad and sends that well over the square leg boundary. That was a well directed short one and he somehow manages to get enough power on that pull to send that over the ropes.

15.4 Zakary Foulkes to Abdul Samad, back of a length delivery outside off, cut away towards the deep point region, a wayward throw allows Samad to come back for a brace.

15.3 Zakary Foulkes to Abrar Ahmed, Abar clears his front leg and glides away the full one around off, down towards the deep third man region for a single.

15.2 Zakary Foulkes to Abdul Samad, pace-off shorter length delivery a shade outside off, pulled away towards the deep midwicket fielder and has to settle for a single.

15.1 Zakary Foulkes to Abdul Samad, FOUR! Slower shorter length delivery drifting down leg, Samad waits for it and just about manages to pull that away over Ish Sodhi at short fine leg and finds the boundary.

Zakary Foulkes [3-0-10-3] comes back into the attack

Pakistan are about to eclipse their lowest total in the series as well. It will be interesting to see how the last batting pair bats from here on, with only three bowlers remaining in the attack now

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