PAK VS NZ - 2nd T20I, New Zealand tour of Pakistan, 2023

That's all from this second T20I. New Zealand have been outplayed in both the games and need to fix their batting woes quickly else the series would be gone. Pakistan have been clinical in the two games and would look to wrap up the series on Monday. Join us for the third T20I then. Until next time, goodbye and stay safe..

Tom Latham: We have been there or thereabouts but we weren't able to finish the innings off, both with the ball and bat. But when Babar plays like that, you tip your hat off. The bowlers are trying hard and we are not that far away, if we can put the pieces together then we have a good chance. We were a lot better than last night, we couldn't get off to the fast start and they bowled well in the middle overs. You need to get off to a quick start while chasing 190 and we weren't able to do that today. It is a game of fine margins and can be fickle, we will take the learnings from the last two nights and come back stronger on Monday.

Babar Azam | Player of the Match: I am very happy with my performance in this match. There was a bit of help for the fast bowlers early on but Rizwan and myself saw that period through, built a partnership and then Iftikhar and myself finished it off. We utilized the last five overs and got to a very good total. Losing wickets back to back is a concern and we will discuss these things, it does put pressure on the batters when you lose wickets in clusters. We have very good fast bowlers and they performed brilliantly. He (Rizwan) is feeling better and there's a rest day tomorrow, let's see how he pulls up.

00:23 Local Time, 19:23 GMT, 00:53 IST: A better batting performance by New Zealand compared to yesterday but still not good enough to beat this Pakistan team. Mark Chapman was the only batter who got a hang of the surface as the rest struggled. Latham and Bowes couldn't get going in the powerplay and that shot the asking rate up which in turn brought the spinners into play, Shadab and Imad accounted for the openers and then it was the Haris Rauf show. The pacer kept picking wickets at regular intervals and recorded back to back 4-fers. Chapman got to his fifty and ensured the margin of defeat was reduced. Earlier in the day, Babar Azam played a typical Babar innings where he paced it beautifully and batted through to register yet another T20 hundred. He got there off the last ball of the innings and his knock ensured Pakistan had a massive total on the board. Hang around for the presentations..

Zaman Khan to Chapman, SIX, Chapman finishes off with a maximum. But that is not enough as Pakistan win by 38 runs. Short ball outside off, Chapman does not bother to keep the cut down and sends it sailing over the point fence

Zaman Khan to Shipley, 1 run, off-pace delivery and Shipley lofts it down to long-on, just a single

Henry Shipley, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Zaman Khan to McConchie, out Bowled!! Cleaned up! Malingaesque from Zaman Khan. The dipping yorker and McConchie was completely beaten, he didn't pick the slower ball and was through the shot early, the ball dipped on him and crashed into the base of middle-stump. Zaman enjoyed that. McConchie b Zaman Khan 12(9) [4s-2]

Zaman Khan to McConchie, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Zaman Khan to McConchie, no run, short ball at the batter, McConchie backs away and gets cramped, he tries the ramp but does not succeed

Zaman Khan to Chapman, 1 run, slower ball outside off, Chapman reaches and mistimes the drive to long-off

Zaman Khan to Chapman, no run, full and slingy around off, Chapman shuffles across and misses the scoop/lap

Zaman Khan [3.0-0-22-0] is back into the attack

Shaheen Afridi to McConchie, 2 runs, full and angled into the pads, McConchie flicks to deep mid-wicket and races back for the second

Shaheen Afridi to Chapman, 1 run, makes room and Shaheen follows him with a slower ball, dabbed to backward point

Shaheen Afridi to McConchie, 1 run, full and outside off, McConchie lofts it on the bounce to sweeper cover

Shaheen Afridi to McConchie, no run, angles the short ball in from round the wicket, McConchie gets inside the line and does not connect with the pull

Shaheen Afridi to McConchie, no run, dipping yorker and McConchie through the shot early, missed the off-stump by a whisker

Shaheen Afridi to Chapman, 1 run, very full delivery around off, Chapman jams it into the ground and the ball bounces over Shaheen

Haris Rauf to McConchie, FOUR, no 5-fer for Rauf. He bangs it halfway down and it sits up, McConchie gets on top of the bounce and pulls it through mid-wicket. No chance for the fielder in the deep. Rauf finishes with 4-0-27-4