Pakistan vs New Zealand Live T20: 1st 20.20 from Dubai

by Mansoor Ehsan on November 12, 2009

After a “shameful defeat” (that’s how Afridi realized) of ODI series, Pakistan camp is all set to revenge…hey, that’s what we heard about ODIs as well that they would equalize the loss suffered in Champions Trophy’s semi final. Anyways, a new combination of players may work out as Imran Nazir, Sohail Tanvir and Fawad Alam reached UAE for 2 T20s. Another positive that they can take out is “No-Younis Khan”. Yeah…sometimes when your leader is in all sorts of trouble you may also not feel comfortable.

To me Pakistan is natural to T20 as was evident in the 3rd ODI. It seemed as if Afridi, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal and Razzaq were all playing a T20. Pakistan has won the most T20Is than any other team in the world. Pakistan is carrying a superb T20 form as they won all of their last 5 matches in a row. Well Pakistan should not have any problem to win both of these T20Is.

Miscellaneous Info
Pakistan Vs New Zealand 1st T20I: Match Starts at 9.00 PM PST
Weather: 30 degree Centigrade
Ground: Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium

For New Zealand there is a bad news: Oram, Franklin and Mills are not available. Franklin and Mills are injured while Oram has left for home country to see his newborn baby. Here is team for Newzealand:

DL Vettori*, SE Bond, NT Broom, IG Butler, JEC Franklin, MJ Guptill, BB McCullum†, NL McCullum, KD Mills, JDP Oram, AJ Redmond, TG Southee, SB Styris, LRPL Taylor, BJ Watling

Here is the squad for Pakistan:

Shahid Afridi*, Abdul Razzaq, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar Anjum, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal†, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Aamer, Naved-ul-Hasan, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul

Live Streaming links for Pakistan vs Newzealand 20.20:
1. http://bit.ly/4rJN9E [Open in IE]
2. http://bit.ly/2AbF2s [Open in Firefox]
3. http://bit.ly/n2Cei [Open in IE]
4. http://bit.ly/smFe2 [Open in Firefox]

Best of luck Pakistan!

PS: BTW I was listening to this 106.2 Hum FM and came to know that there will be live performance by Ibrar ul Haq and Strings during and the before the match. This performance will be broadcasted live at TENSports and 106.2 Hum FM.