National cricket team captain Babar Azam said that as an opener the team could not provide a good start which put pressure on the middle order. |
Talking after the defeat to Zimbabwe, he said that the wicket played like the first T20 match and there was no problem in it.
He said that T20 World Cup is approaching and he will do his best to make the team a good combination in all other T20 matches.
It may be recalled that in the second T20 match, Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan by 19 runs. Pakistan has lost its first T20 match against Zimbabwe.
In the match played in Harare, Pakistan failed to achieve the easy target of 119 runs given by Zimbabwe and piled up 99 runs in the allotted 20 overs.
Muhammad Rizwan, who played the winning innings in the first T20, soon lost his wicket and the national team could not recover and one wicket after another fell.
For Pakistan, captain Babar Azam played a slow innings of 41 off 45 balls.
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and elected to field first.
Due to the excellent bowling of the bowlers of the national team, the Zimbabwean batsmen failed to give a big target and managed to score 119 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
For Pakistan, Luke Jungway and Ryan Braille took two wickets each.
With this victory of Zimbabwe, the three-match series has become one to one
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