Watch the highlights of New Zealand vs Pakistan 1st ODI 1992-93 - Pakistan tour of New Zealand 3-match one-day international series of the 1st ODI match played between Pakistan and New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Wellington on 26th December 1992.
A fine display of swing bowling by Wasim Akram's career-best 5 for 19 and Aaqib Javed's three-wickets gives Pakistan comfortable 50-run victory over New Zealand and take a 1-0 lead in a low-scoring game of the first ODI.
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Pakistan scored 158-8 in the allotted 49 overs with top scorer by Ramiz Raja cracked a 50 off 102-balls including 3-fours.
Javed Miandad scored 46 off 91-balls without a boundary and Saleem Malik scored 25 off 40-balls included 2-fours.
New Zealand best bowler by Chris Harris picked up 3-wickets for 24-runs in 10-overs including a maiden with economy rate of 2.40, Danny Morrison and Willie Watson both took 2-wickets.
New Zealand bundled out for 108 in 39.3 overs with top scorer by Martin Crowe cracked a 28 off 48-balls including 3-fours.
Ken Rutherford cracked a 18 off 45-balls including a boundary and Adam Parore scored 14 off 33-balls without a boundary.
Pakistan best bowler by Wasim Akram 5-19, Aaqib Javed picked up 3-wickets for 27-runs in 10-overs including a maiden with economy rate of 2.70 and Mushtaq Ahmed took one-wicket.
Wasim Akram named Player of the match for his pace bowling attack to claimed a career-best 5-wicket haul for 19-runs in 9-overs including a maiden with economy rate of 2.11.
This match reported by NZPA via The Canberra Times
Pakistan overcame a modest first-innings score to record an easy victory over New Zealand in its opening one-day cricket international at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
Sent in to bat, Pakistan managed eight for 158 in its 49 overs. But New Zealand was bowled out for only 108, with 9.3 overs remaining to give Pakistan a 50-run victory.
Pakistani all-rounder Wasim Akram was the star performer, taking 5-19 in nine overs, his best one-day performance. He took the first three wickets, then came back to remove the tail in a fine display of swing bowling. It was the third time he had taken five wickets in an innings.
New Zealand made a slow beginning but by the 11th over had slumped to 3-19.
Openers Mark Greatbatch and Rod Latham, looking to reproduce their big-hitting World Cup form, struggled against the pace and movement of Akram and Waqar Younis.
Greatbatch, dropped by Aamir Sohail when he hit ball to cover, lost Latham and Andrew Jones within three balls in Akram's third over. The left-hander was caught eventually at mid-on, trying to hit the excellent Akram over the top.
Captain Martin Crowe and Ken Rutherford slowly pulled New Zealand back into the match with a steady 41-run stand for the fourth wicket.
The first boundary of the innings didn't come until the 13th over but just when Crowe was beginning to take a measure of control he hit Aaqib Javed hard and low to short
cover.
The players stayed on during some light rain and Pakistan benefited, taking 3-4 in 20 balls to have New Zealand rocking at 7-77.
Gavin Larsen lifted Sohail over the fence at extra cover but Akram returned to clean up the tail.
He was ably supported by Aaqib, who finished with 3-27 in his 10 overs.
Earlier, Pakistan's innings was built around the efforts of opener Ramiz Raja and captain Javed Miandad.
They shared a 59-run partnership for the third wicket in 52 minutes, after the dangerous Salim Malik had been sent back and failed to beat Dipak Patel's direct hit running in from short cover.
Ramiz played a workmanlike hand, but after getting to his 26th one-day 50, his dismissal precipitated a collapse which ended Pakistan's hopes of a total of around 200.
In the space of 15 balls, three wickets fell, two to the medium-paced in-swing of Chris Harris.
Both Inzamam-al-Haq and Asif Mujtaba failed to score, out hooking and pulling respectively and giving catches in the deep.
When Akram holed out to long off four runs later, four wickets had fallen for seven runs and Pakistan had slumped from two for 116 to six for 123.
Miandad worked hard, but with only the tall-enders for company was unable to boost a run rate which never got above three throughout the innings.
He was out, slogging a full toss back to the bowler, Danny Morrison, in the final over. His 46 from 94 balls didn't include a single boundary and only one three, from a deft reverse sweep.
Harris finished with the best figures, three for 24 from 10 overs, while Morrison and Willie Watson picked up two wickets apiece.
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