Pakistan v/s New Zeland T20 Series Preview

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Good Afternoon to all my friends, from today, it's one more interesting series will start as New Zeland is on tour of UAE where they are playing against Pakistan which is Home ground of Pakistan since International cricket is not playing in Pakistan due to security reasons. New Zeland will play international cricket after a long break of 6 months as they previously played against England in March and not played any International game for 5 months so let discuss how interesting this series will and which player to watch out.

Pakistan

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as we know Pakistan is in tremendous form at the moment as they are just unstoppable in T20 but this time they have too little careful because New Zeland is one of a good team and they have many good players so they must have to play carefully. Pakistan batting is as stronger as their bowling in T20 because they promote Babar Azam in opening with Fakhar Zaman because its a good combination of attacking and defensive batsman open the batting which helps the team to make a good total because when one is attacking, other have to rotate strike which quality Babar Azam have. Babar Azam can play also attacking while need. they have an issue with middle over as they are struggling against Australia but Sohaib Malik will play a crucial role in the middle over because after it they have not much batting line up. Faheem Ashraf and Shadab Khan playing as an all-rounder for the team.

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Pakistan Strength is Bowling because they won most of the match by bowling. Pakistan always produced such great and talented bowler. if you see in the squad then there are so many good bowlers so it's hard to decide whom to keep in the team because they all perform well. if you see in last 3 T20 against Australia, then though they only made 150 but they never allow Australia to reach there because their bowler did not allow them to score runs as they always took wickets in a powerplay. Imad Wasim came in the team after a long break but he won 2 times man of the match title in first 2 T20 so he is in form too which is difficult for batsmen to play. Faheem Ashraf, Hassan Ali, Usman Khan, Shaheen Afridi are great fast bowler so it's interesting to see whom they will give chance and from it whom will get more wickets.

New Zeland

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New Zeland is one of the good team who plays consistence as they always give a challenge to opposite team either they play in their own country or in other countries because they have balance team always with batsmen, bowlers, and all-rounders. New Zeland captain Kane Williamson is world class batsman who not only do batting but also a brilliant captaincy too. he is a pillar of New Zeland team who bats on no. 3 and sometimes open the batting too. if any teams want to win against New Zeland then they must have to out this batsman otherwise it create a trouble for others. the speciality of Williamson is that he can bat well on any pitches as well as fast and spin bowling too. in middle over they have very experienced batsman Ross Taylor whose record is good in T20. Glenn Phillips also in good form as he played recently against Pakistan A so lots of Eyes on him too. Martin Guptill and Mitchel Santnar not in the squad so New Zeland will miss them but Corey Anderson and Colin De Grandhome will play a role of finisher.

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New Zeland bowling line up is little weak compared to Pakistan but not bad because they have some good fast bowler as well as spinner too. Tim Southee, Lockie Fergusson, Adam Milne and Seth Rance will command of fast bowling where in the spin department, Ish Sodhi and young Ajaz Patel will get chance in this series. Tim Southee and Ish Sodhi will key of New Zeland for bowling department as others are still new but they are lot talented so its sure that series will be sure more interesting.

Player to watch out for whole Series

Babar Azam who played a lead role against Australia in last T20 series and played a big inning in all 3 matches thus he also named a man of the series.

Fakhar Zaman is that kind of player that who give good start with fireworks of 4's and 6's in the powerplay. if he set he can destroy opposite team because he scoring runs so fast.

Sohaib Malik is the best batsman of Pakistan team due to his batting and maturity as he can play inning according to a situation of the team. he has a lot of experience of build the inning and take to a good score at the end of 20 overs.

Shadab khan & Imad Wasim are now perfect combinations of the spinner for Pakistan in T20 as they not allow to score runs and keep taking wickets so opposite team cants able to score runs. both spinners economy was below 6 in the last series and took many wickets which are a good thing in T20 cricket.

kane Williamson is the best batsmen of the world and as I said before he is a pillar of New Zeland team because he scores run a lot and always dominating while batting. he can bat in any position but he likes to open and take advantage of powerplay.

Tim Southee is the one of best bowler who loves to do inswing and outswing both and very dangerous. he is a specialist of death bowling and not allow batsmen to score runs freely. he will miss his partner boult in this series who is not in a squad.

Glenn Phillips is very talented and aggressive batsman who not played many International matches but in county cricket, he played many useful innings. recently New Zeland A team beat Pakistan A team in UAE where Phillips played series winning role. he is a new but extremely talented player.

Prediction

I think here to Pakistan is more favorable as they are in the best form ever as just going to win series one by one. they have many choices of batting and bowling in the team which make their team more balancing as beside New Zeland is not a weak team but they will definitely play better than Australia that is for sure. New Zeland has less Impact player compare to Pakistan so that is why I said Pakistan is more favorite but New Zeland can win also it so let see as 3 matches of T20 series will start from today 9:30 PM IST.

I have also posted this blog in scorum and here is its link :- Pakistan v/s New Zeland T20 Series Preview