Pakistan vs New Zealand, 1st Match, Group A at Karachi, Champions Trophy, Feb 19 2025 - Match Result

RESULT
1st Match, Group A (D/N), Karachi, February 19, 2025, ICC Champions Trophy
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(47.2/50 ov, T:321) 260

New Zealand won by 60 runs

Player Of The Match
118* (104)
tom-latham
Cricinfo's MVP
166.62 ptsImpact List
tom-latham
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Scores: K Vairavan | Comms: Karthik Krishnaswamy
Scorecard summary
New Zealand 320/5(50 overs)
118* (104)
2/63 (10)
107 (113)
2/83 (10)
Pakistan 260/10(47.2 overs)
Cricinfo’s Most Valuable Players of the Match
PlayerTeam
TI
Runs
I. Runs
B. Impact
Bowl
I. Wkts
Bo. Impact
NZ166.62118(104)126.16166.62---
NZ130.75107(113)115.35130.75---
PAK94.4769(49)74.4383.670/40010.8
PAK74.213(15)138.242/632.8165.96
NZ71.98---3/472.7671.98

10.08pm The Champions Trophy is up and running, and how. Early pressure on Pakistan, something they're familiar with through their history in big tournaments, so don't count them out yet, but what about New Zealand, eh? They really look like a top side across departments, though there's still one big question mark - the inexperience of their support seamers - which hasn't yet been tested. We'll see how they cope if and when that happens. Another big game tomorrow (which game isn't?): it's India vs Bangladesh. Be sure to join our crew for that one. But from me, Vish, Raghav and Vairavan, it's good night for now.

Mitchell Santner: "I thought Pakistan bowled well, even through the middle stage, but the well Young and Latham rotated the strike and got the odd boundary really set us up. We were thinking 260-280, but it shows what you can do if you have a platform and wickets in hand. After the score we got, the first 10 overs with the ball were outstanding, the way our new-ball guys were able to smash a length. We built the run-rate pressure and were able to chip wickets throughout. We kind of expect that from Glenn [the catch], and getting Rizwan like that was outstanding. Tonight there wasn't much dew, maybe because of the wind, but hitting that slightly shorter lenght - 9-10m - was crucial for the quicks, and bowling a little slower for our spinners, we were able to get it to grip. And our ground fielding was outstanding, we were able to squeeze the new batsmen."

Mohammad Rizwan: "I think they made a very good target, we didn't expect they would get 320. We thought around 260 when we took early wickets. The Will Young-Latham partnership was crucial. We tried, but they played very smartly and that's why they got to that total. The pitch was not easy to bat early on, but Will Young and Latham's innings were crucial. Our execution in the end overs was not good, and that's why they made that score. [On Fakhar's injury] Let's see what the result from the [scan] is. We lost momentum twice, first in the death overs and then in the powerplay with the bat. Losing Fakhar Zaman [as opener] was crucial. We didn't want to put pressure on ourselves by thinking we are defending champions. This match is gone, and the next match is another normal match for us."

Tom Latham, Player of the Match: "It was a slightly different surface to the ones we played on in the tri-series. The way Will Young batted, and the way GP played towards the end were brilliant. We were able to go through the gears a little bit more and increase the run rate, and when you have wickets in hand with these short square boundaries, you can make hay towards the end. The score we made was well above par. We didn't see that in the tri-series, but with the lack of dew, and with the wind, it probably turned a little bit more in the second innings."

9.47pm What a start this is for New Zealand. They've made it 4-0 against Pakistan in Champions Trophy meetings, and 3-0 against them over the last couple of weeks, and in doing so have signalled how much of a title threat they could be. They lost the toss, were sent in with dew expected, and for a while had to battle tricky-looking conditions where the ball often stopped or kept low. But they got through that period, and supremely accomplished hundreds from Will Young and Tom Latham, and a glorious 39-ball 61 from Glenn Phillips, took them to 320. Pakistan never, ever threatened to get close. Matt Henry was incredible with his new-ball control, and Will O'Rourke was almost as good, and they suffocated Pakistan's top order to the tune of 22 for 2 in the first ten. Pakistan were hamstrung by having an injured Fakhar Zaman unable to open, and that destabilised their batting order and caused a lot of knock-on tactical issues, but they also showed a lack of inventiveness when the runs weren't coming. In the end, after that start, they did pretty well to get to within 61 runs of their target, with Salman Agha and Khushdil Shah making solid contributions. But this match was all New Zealand, almost from start to finish.

Umair Sheikh : "Thanks God we don't have to play new Zealand again."

Rodzilla : "It's that time of the year guys!! Pull out the calculators.If newnealand beats india and Pakistan beats india by more than 60 runs and then the sun sets in the east, we will be through."

Mehul: "PAK could have win easily if Babar have played better. so many dot balls by all top batsman."

Asif Inzamam: "If only Babar's Runs and balls were reversed!"

47.2
W
Henry to Naseem Shah, OUT

and that is that. New Zealand win by 60 runs. Looks to step across for that scoop over fine leg again, and this time Henry beats him with a full ball at the stumps

Naseem Shah b Henry 13 (15b 0x4 1x6 27m) SR: 86.66
47.1
Henry to Naseem Shah, no run

shortish outside off, and Naseem first shapes to step across and scoop to fine leg, before changing his mind and going for a late dab to deep third. Can't connect

Here is Pakistan's No. 11, Abrar Ahmed. He'll have to wait to take strike, though. Here's Henry.

yahya: "say what you want about the pitch, 22-2 in the 1st 10 is not acceptable."

SADDIQUE Ahmed: "This match is not lost. Pakistan only need two big over say 36 runs in each over."

end of over 4715 runs • 1 wicket
PAK: 260/9CRR: 5.53 RRR: 20.33 • Need 61 from 18b
Naseem Shah13 (13b 1x6)
Mitchell Santner 10-0-66-3
Will O’Rourke 9-0-47-3
46.6
W
Santner to Haris Rauf, OUT

finally he picks out a fielder. Steps out, and Santner slows it down and dangles it a lot wider outside off. Reaches out, loses his shape, and hits it as well as he can under the circumstances, but that only means a simple catch to long-on

Haris Rauf c Mitchell b Santner 19 (10b 0x4 3x6 11m) SR: 190
46.5
6
Santner to Haris Rauf, SIX runs

clean strike. Tossed up outside off, and it's right in his arc and not wide enough to make him reach for the ball. Frees his arms an d strikes it sweetly over the long-on boundary

46.4
1
Santner to Naseem Shah, 1 run

shortish outside off, chopped to sweeper cover

46.3
6
Santner to Naseem Shah, SIX runs

now Naseem hits a six. Drifts this down leg and into his hitting arc, and he clears his front leg and launches cleanly over midwicket

46.2
2
Santner to Naseem Shah, 2 runs

tossed up really slow, 75.7kph, on off stump. Looks to launch it over long-off or the covers, and ends up twisted inside out as he slices it over the backward point region

46.1
Santner to Naseem Shah, no run

looks to make room for the cut against this short-of-length ball just outside off, and is beaten by lack of bounce

Huzaifa Ali: "I think bowling is key difference between the two teams. This was never a 320 pitch, but Pakistan leaked so many runs in the last 10, if the target was 280 the scenario would have been so much different."

end of over 469 runs
PAK: 245/8CRR: 5.32 RRR: 19.00 • Need 76 from 24b
Haris Rauf13 (8b 2x6)
Naseem Shah4 (9b)
Will O’Rourke 9-0-47-3
Mitchell Santner 9-0-51-2
45.6
O'Rourke to Haris Rauf, no run

throws in the attempted leg-stump yorker that just slides past leg stump after Rauf makes room, swings, and misses

45.5
6
O'Rourke to Haris Rauf, SIX runs

wow, that's a terrific connection, even if he was working against geometry and physics. Short ball gets up above shoulder height, and he has to drag this pull from outside off, but he still clears the boundary to the left of deep backward square leg

45.4
1
O'Rourke to Naseem Shah, 1 run

looks to make room and O'Rourke follows him with a hard-length ball. Punches with a straight bat into the mid-on region. The fielder there is back at long-on

45.3
1
O'Rourke to Haris Rauf, 1 run

short, angling down leg, steps across and looks to hoick it over his shoulder, manages to glove it into the short fine leg region

45.2
O'Rourke to Haris Rauf, no run

short outside off, too much bounce for Rauf to connect with the big baseball hit into the leg side

45.1
1lb
O'Rourke to Naseem Shah, 1 leg bye

length ball angling down leg, looks to flick, and picks up a leg bye off the pad towards short fine

end of over 457 runs
PAK: 236/8CRR: 5.24 RRR: 17.00 • Need 85 from 30b
Haris Rauf6 (4b 1x6)
Naseem Shah3 (7b)
Mitchell Santner 9-0-51-2
Will O’Rourke 8-0-39-3
44.6
6
Santner to Haris Rauf, SIX runs

he's hit that a long, long way, but most of the distance it covers is vertical. Down the track, skips his feet to the leg-side of this off-stump ball, creates swinging room and goes haaaaard at it. Launches it extremely high, and Mitchell is running to his left and back to the boundary at long-on, and it juuust eludes him and clears the rope

44.5
Santner to Haris Rauf, no run

length ball turning from leg stump, presses forward and blocks into the pitch

44.4
1
Santner to Naseem Shah, 1 run

steps out and Santner shortens his length outside off, gets it to turn sharply too. Reaches out and slaps it to sweeper cover

44.3
Santner to Naseem Shah, no run

makes room against a flat length ball angled into the stumps, punches to short extra-cover

44.2
Santner to Naseem Shah, no run

back of a length outside off, dabbed to short third

44.1
Santner to Naseem Shah, no run

quick length ball turning away outside off, kind of defends, kind of leaves it alone, and makes sure he doesn't edge it

Santner returns. Lots of match-up bowling for New Zealand even against the lower order.

Best performances - batters
Spike Graph
Wagon Zone
TWM Latham
118 runs (104)
10 fours3 sixes
Productive shot
flick
28 runs
1 four2 sixes
Control
83%
WA Young
107 runs (113)
12 fours1 six
Productive shot
cover drive
30 runs
4 fours0 six
Control
83%
Best performances - bowlers
W O'Rourke
O
9
M
0
R
47
W
3
ECO
5.22
FTYFGSGS
OFFLEG
RHB
1W
LEGOFF
LHB
1W
1W
MJ Santner
O
10
M
0
R
66
W
3
ECO
6.6
FTYFGSGS
OFFLEG
RHB
1W
1W
1W
LEGOFF
LHB
Match details
National Stadium, Karachi
TossPakistan, elected to field first
Series
Season2024/25
Player Of The Match
Match numberODI no. 4843
Hours of play (local time)14.00 start, First Session 14.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-18.10, Second Session 18.10-21.40
Match days19 February 2025 - daynight (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpire
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
PointsNew Zealand 2, Pakistan 0
Language
English
Win Probability
NZ 100%
NZPAK
100%50%100%NZ InningsPAK Innings

Over 48 • PAK 260/10

Naseem Shah b Henry 13 (15b 0x4 1x6 27m) SR: 86.66
W
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ICC Champions Trophy

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND33060.715
NZ32140.267
BAN3021-0.443
PAK3021-1.087
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA32052.395
AUS31040.475
AFG3113-0.990
ENG3030-1.159