Triumphant cricket fans celebrated Pakistan’s brilliant win over New Zealand as the Pakistan cricket team stormed into the T20 World Cup Final finals for the first time in 13 years.
Pakistan cricket team delivered a dominant and clinical performance to defeat New Zealand by seven wickets to qualify for their first T20 World Cup final since lifting the trophy at Lord’s in 2009.
Pakistan produced a remarkable all-around performance. The bowlers permitted New Zealand only 12 boundaries (ten fours, two sixes), with Shaheen Shah Afridi proving unstoppable with 2-24. Pakistani bowlers restricted New Zealand to 152 for four.
Babar Azam pays tribute to the crowd in Syndey. “We are feeling like we’re playing at home!” he says. “Everyone is coming and cheering for the Pakistan team.”
Azam gave credit to the bowlers saying: “We had a good start with the ball, we have good spinners with Shadab and Nawaz bowling very well, and the fast bowlers finished very well.”
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said “We were outplayed,” adding that “Pakistan bowled really nicely, we managed to wrestle back a little bit of momentum, at half-way we felt that was a competitive total. Very disappointing to not make Pakistan work a lot harder… They certainly deserve their win.”
Pakistan and the world react to thrilling win