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Pakistan VS Zimbabwe

Pakistan VS Zimbabwe first test match.Zimbabwe won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat first, which proved to be beneficial, the top-order batsmen failed to increase runs.

Pakistan and Zimbabwe cricket Test match innings of the series will begin Tuesday at the Harare Sports Club. Both teams will face each other in Test series after two years. Zimbabwe Pakistan of 1993 and 2011 by a total of seven test series Play of the team six the winner and the one I defeat suffered. Zimbabwe in 1998 was played test series Pakistan beat that. Pak team Trip is busy nowadays in Zimbabwe, after winning TV series Green T-shirts and boost morale of the players and the host team in the Test series defeat are fully prepared for dealing with smell. Meanwhile, Mohammad Hafeez hamstrings injury fell victim to participate in the first Test of the series was doubtful.

Pakistan VS Zimbabw

HARARE: Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 108 runs in the third and final One-day International to take the three-match series 2-1 here at the Harare Sports Club ground on Saturday.

After being sent into bat by Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor, Pakistan made 260 for six in 50 overs and then their spinners bowled Zimbabwe out for 152 in 40 overs.

Off-break bowlers Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez, and left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman grabbed two wickets each while leg-spinner Shahid Afridi took one wicket.

Only Malcolm Waller provided some resistance, coming at number six and was the last man to be out for a valuable 48 with four boundaries.

Among others, three batsmen scored in the twenties while the remaining batsmen could not reach the double-figures.

Earlier, Misbah-ul-Haq led from the front to take Pakistan to a competitive total. He
was the mainstay of the batting as usual scoring 67 off 85 balls with 6 fours while opener Ahmed Shehzad made 54 off 85 balls.

Umar Amin (33 off 25 balls) and Sarfraz Ahmed (22 off 13 balls) tried to accelerate towards the end.

Mohammad Hafeez who had retired hurt earlier with a hamstring injury, came to bat again after Sarfraz’s dismissal and remained not out for 26.

Pace bowler Tendai Chatara was the pick of the Zimbabwe attack picking up three for 48.

3RD one Day International match in Harare.

Pakistan VS Zimbabwe

HARARE: Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 90 runs in the second One-day International to level the three-match series here at the Harare Sports Club ground on Thursday.
A commanding century by Mohammad Hafeez and a four-wicket haul from left-arm seamer Junaid Khan played a key role in Pakistan’s series-leveling victory..
After Hafeez had carried Pakistan to an imposing total of 299 for four with an unbeaten 136, Junaid stubbed out a promising run chase by the Zimbabweans to secure a 90-run win and set up a series decider on Saturday.

Captain Brendan Taylor led Zimbabwe's reply from the front with an assured 79, but his dismissal saw the hosts collapse from 200 for four in the 39th over to 209 all out in the 43rd as Junaid finished with figures of four for 15.

Taylor had shared partnerships with Hamilton Masakadza, Sean Williams and Malcolm Waller as Zimbabwe laid a platform for what would have been the highest successful run chase at Harare Sports Club, only for Junaid and Saeed Ajmal to snuff it out.

Ajmal induced a top-edge from Taylor that was taken one-handed by seven-foot Pakistan bowler Mohammad Irfan, and in the next over Junaid dismissed both Waller and Elton Chigumbura to end any hopes of victory for Zimbabwe.

Pakistan's batsmen had struggled in the first ODI on Tuesday, which they lost by seven wickets, leading captain Misbah-ul-Haq to call on them to end a prolonged run of substandard performances in 50-over cricket.

Hafeez answered that call with a superb knock, hitting five sixes but also showing restraint after Pakistan had stuttered to 84 for three in the 22nd over.

The 32-year-old gained control of the innings in a 129-run stand with Umar Amin, who recorded his maiden half-century.

Although the pair added just 66 runs over their first 23 overs together, they cashed in on the batting powerplay when they hammered 43 runs in five overs.

Amin was brilliantly run out by Tendai Chatara soon after, but Hafeez went to his century in the following over and was well supported by Shahid Afridi in the final stages of the innings.

Afridi clubbed three sixes on his way to 39 not out as Pakistan took 64 runs from the final five overs of the innings, leaving Zimbabwe with a target that proved well beyond them.