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Glenn Philips and Fakhar Zaman

Pakistan vs New Zealand Tri Series: The Pakistani team lost by 78 runs in the first match of the Tri -series against New Zealand. The bowlers and batsmen for Pakistan could not perform well in this match. New Zealand won the toss and batted first and targeted the Pakistani team for 331 runs, in response to which the Pakistani team could score only 252 runs and had to face defeat. Fakhar Jaman definitely played a militant innings for Pakistan, but he could not win the team. Glenn Philips’s century overshadowed Fakhar’s innings.

Pakistani team batted flop

The Pakistani team started to chase the target like Himalayas. When Babar Azam returned to the pavilion after scoring just 10 runs. Fakhar Zaman on the other side played a strong innings. He scored 84 runs in 69 balls, including 7 fours and four sixes. He did not get the support of other batsmen. Kamran Ghulam and captain Mohammad Rizwan also could not do well. Salman Ali Aga tried to stay on the wicket for some time and scored 40 runs. Abrar Ahmed scored 23 runs. Haris Rauf did not land to bat due to injury. In this way, Pakistan had to face defeat due to poor performance of batsmen. Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry took 3-3 wickets for New Zealand.

Glenn Philips scored a century

The Kiwi team had lost two wickets for 39 runs at one time. But after this Derryl Mitchell and Glenn Philips took over the responsibility of scoring runs. Mitchell scored 81 runs. At the same time, Philips scored the first ODI of his career. He scored 106 runs in 74 balls, including 6 fours and 7 sixes. Apart from him, veteran batsman Kane Williamson contributed 58 runs. Due to the best innings of these players, the New Zealand team managed to reach the score of 330 runs. Glenn Philips scored a total of 25 runs against Shaheen Afridi in the 50th over. He proved to be very expensive in the match and took a total of 88 runs.