With Zaheer still missing through injury, Shoaib Mohammad came into the XI for the Pakistanis.
Imran, missing the 1st game through injury, came back into the side in place of seamer Mohsin Kamal.
Zimbabwe welcomed back Pycroft and Jarvis, in place of batsman Andy Flower and keeper Wayne James.
With the pitch Normal and weather conditions good, Pakistan elected to bat first upon winning the toss.
Mudassar was out for a duck in Brandes opening over, before Mohsin Khan and Shoaib Mohammad steadied things with a slow but solid partnership of 47.
When they were out, an aggressive middle order took over, Saleem Malik top scoring with 56 as Pakistan totalled 210/6 off 50 overs.
Javed and Rameez also contributed, but at the halfway mark Zimbabwe would have felt they were in with a chance.
Brandes and Shah claimed 3 wickets apiece in an improved bowling performance by the home team.
An excellent partnership of 105 for the 2nd wicket between Shah and Pycroft set things up for Zimbabwe, with Shah contributing a run a ball 73 before Houghton took over.
Houghton made an unbeaten run a ball 63* to take Zimbabwe close, but a lower order collapse in which the last 4 batsmen fell without scoring saw the home team fall 20 runs short, bowled out for 190 with 3 overs to spare.
Abdul Qadir claimed 4-39 and received good support again from the seamers.
Victory by 20 runs saw Pakistan take a 2-0 lead in the 5 match series.
Man of the Match was Ali Shah, for his outstanding allround effort of 73 and 3-32.
Pitch: 4
Weather: 2
Toss: Pakistan
Pakistan won by 20 runs.
Man of the Match: A.H.Shah
Pakistan 1st Innings 210/6 Closed (Overs 50)
Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Min | Bls | 4s | 6s |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mudassar Nazar | c A Shah | b EA Brandes | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Mohsin Khan | c AJ Traicos | b EA Brandes | 28 | 75 | 61 | 1 | 1 |
Shoaib Mohammad | c KJ Arnott | b A Shah | 32 | 86 | 58 | 5 | 0 |
Javed Miandad* | c GA Hick | b EA Brandes | 38 | 69 | 56 | 7 | 0 |
Saleem Malik | c GA Hick | b A Shah | 56 | 85 | 75 | 4 | 0 |
Rameez Raja | not out | 34 | 52 | 29 | 3 | 0 | |
Imran Khan | b A Shah | 14 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
Saleem Yousuf+ | not out | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Tahir Naqqash | dnb | ||||||
Abdul Qadir | dnb | ||||||
Zakir Khan | dnb | ||||||
extras | (b0 lb0 w1 nb3) | 4 | |||||
TOTAL | 6 wickets for | 210 |
FOW |
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1-0(Mudassar Nazar) 2-47(Mohsin Khan) 3-63(Shoaib Mohammad) 4-130(Javed Miandad) |
5-179(Saleem Malik) 6-206(Imran Khan) |
Bowler | Overs | Maid | Runs | Wkts |
---|---|---|---|---|
EA Brandes | 10 | 2 | 37 | 3 |
DH Brain | 9 | 2 | 40 | 0 |
MP Jarvis | 10 | 3 | 40 | 0 |
IP Butchart | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
A Shah | 6 | 0 | 32 | 3 |
AJ Traicos | 9 | 1 | 35 | 0 |
GA Hick | 5 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
Zimbabwe 1st Innings 190/10 All Out (Overs 47)
Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Min | Bls | 4s | 6s |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KJ Arnott | c Saleem Malik | b Tahir Naqqash | 1 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
A Shah | c Rameez Raja | b Abdul Qadir | 73 | 102 | 70 | 9 | 1 |
AJ Pycroft* | b Imran Khan | 46 | 128 | 97 | 4 | 0 | |
GA Hick | c Javed Miandad | b Abdul Qadir | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
DL Houghton+ | not out | 62 | 91 | 63 | 9 | 1 | |
AC Waller | c Tahir Naqqash | b Abdul Qadir | 4 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
IP Butchart | c Javed Miandad | b Tahir Naqqash | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
EA Brandes | b Abdul Qadir | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
DH Brain | c Saleem Yousuf | b Zakir Khan | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
AJ Traicos | c Shoaib Mohammad | b Zakir Khan | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
MP Jarvis | c Saleem Yousuf | b Mudassar Nazar | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
extras | (b0 lb0 w0 nb3) | 3 | |||||
TOTAL | 10 wickets for | 190 |
FOW |
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1-8(KJ Arnott) 2-105(A Shah) 3-106(GA Hick) 4-139(AJ Pycroft) 5-153(AC Waller) |
6-165(IP Butchart) 7-170(EA Brandes) 8-187(DH Brain) 9-187(AJ Traicos) |
10-190(MP Jarvis) |
Bowler | Overs | Maid | Runs | Wkts |
---|---|---|---|---|
Imran Khan | 10 | 2 | 38 | 1 |
Zakir Khan | 8 | 1 | 42 | 2 |
Tahir Naqqash | 10 | 1 | 44 | 2 |
Mudassar Nazar | 9 | 2 | 27 | 1 |
Abdul Qadir | 10 | 1 | 39 | 4 |