6,4,4,4, 6 – Finn Allen Smashes Shaheen Afridi For 24 Runs In 5 Balls. Watch

New Zealand opener Finn Allen had gone berserk in opposition to Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi through the first T20I match at Eden Park, Auckland on Friday. After taking a wicket in his first over, Shaheen returned for his second with nice power however Allen via his sensational batting acquired higher of the left-arm pacer. He trashed him for 24 runs within the third over of the New Zealand innings. It all began with a six over deep mid-wicket off a slower first ball. Allen then smashed three fours in a row earlier than hitting a six over lengthy-on. The last supply was a dot ball however the injury was already completed.

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Tim Southee turned the primary participant to 150 wickets in T20Is as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 46 runs of their sequence opener.

Veteran seam bowler Southee claimed 4 wickets to go the milestone and assist dismiss the vacationers for 180 within the 18th over in response to New Zealand’s imposing 226 for 8, handing them first blood within the 5-match sequence.

Southee’s figures of 4 for 25 have been the very best of a run-dominated encounter at Eden Park and took him to 151 wickets in T20Is, 11 greater than Bangladesh spinner Shakib Al Hasan.

He completed the job as Pakistan’s run chase capitulated after Babar Azam was the seventh wicket to fall within the seventeenth over, with the previous captain having accelerated to 57 off 35 balls to maintain his facet in competition.

There have been begins for openers Saim Ayub (27) and Mohammad Rizwan (25) however Azam struggled to seek out help from his teammates earlier than being caught at cowl by Kane Williamson off Ben Sears’ bowling.

New Zealand’s boundary-laden innings was the very best Pakistan had conceded in a T20, surpassing the 221-3 England scored in Karachi in 2022.

Daryl Mitchell blasted 61 off 27 balls and captain Williamson’s 57 took 42 balls as New Zealand constructed on an explosive begin from opener Finn Allen (34), who struck 24 runs off the third over, bowled by Pakistan captain Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Pakistan’s new-look assault struggled to guard the bottom’s notoriously brief boundaries, conceding 21 fours and 11 sixes.

Seamer Abbas Afridi impressed in his first worldwide look in any format with 3-34 off 4 overs, though fellow-debutant Usama Mir had his leg spin attacked by Mitchell particularly and completed with 0-51.

Shaheen, who took 3-46, led Pakistan for the primary time after Babar forfeited the captaincy within the wake of their failure to make final 12 months’s 50-over Cricket World Cup semi-finals.

New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder Mitchell Santner wasn’t chosen after testing optimistic for Covid-19 earlier within the day.

(With AFP Inputs)