Christchurch Test, Pakistan lose by 176 runs, captain Muhammad Rizwan accepts responsibility for the series defeat
New Zealand beat the national team by 176 runs in a Test match in Christchurch to sweep the series clean. Captain Babar Azam was also ruled out of the second Test due to a thumb injury which led to wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan leading the team.
National team captain Mohammad Rizwan has claimed responsibility for the defeat, saying that 20 wickets are needed to win a Test match and the role of fielding is very important but we did not play well in all fields, this series is a great lesson for us.
In the Christchurch Test, the Pakistani team scored 297 runs in the first innings. In which Azhar Ali scored 93, captain Mohammad Rizwan 61, and Faheem Ashraf 48 while other batsmen like Shan Masood 0 Abid Ali 25, Haris Sohail score 1, and Fawad Alam managed only 2 runs.
For New Zealand, Kyle Jameson took 5 wickets, Tim Southee and Trent Bolt took 2 wickets each.
In the first innings, New Zealand scored a double century by captain Kane Williamson, Kane Williamson score 238, Henry Nichols 157, and Daryl Mitchell played an aggressive inning of 102 runs. Later, after scoring 659 runs, the Kiwis declared the innings and took a lead of 362 runs, ahead of which the national team looked helpless and the entire team could only score 186 runs.
In the second innings, Abid Ali scored 26, Haris Sohail 15, Azhar Ali 37, captain Muhammad Rizwan 10, Fawad Alam 16, Fahim Ashraf 28, and Zafar Gohar 37 runs. New Zealand’s Kyle Jameson took 11 wickets in this match on which he was awarded the Man of the Match trophy.
It may be recalled that Pakistan had earlier lost the Mount Mangoni Test by 101 runs. Now the New Zealand team has managed to make a clean sweep in the series, on which the Kiwis captain Ken Williamson said that the victory in the series is the result of the team’s hard work.
Williamson said “Our batsmen were able to form a good partnership and our bowlers, especially Kyle Jameson, Tim Southee, and Trent Bolt, bowled at a good line length, which easily won the series,”
