By the time the Pakistan innings entered the third over, they had lost two wickets to Shane Bond without a run on board. How they then raised 287 was a shock for New Zealand in the first ODI at Abu Dhabi in the Pakistan New Zealand series.
Pakistan had only scored twenty runs in the first nine overs, but the innings survived because one man held up an end so that two could blaze away to astounding success.
Khaled Latif scored sixty-four runs from 112 runs opening the battle and surviving until the forty-first over. It set up the platform, even if a slow one for Pakistan, from where the launch pad could be attempted.
From 184 for six when Latif fell, Pakistan raised another 100 runs in the next nine overs, fifty-five of which came in the five batting power play overs.
Afridi’s seventy runs blitz from just fifty overs followed by Kamran Akmal’s sixty-seven from forty-three balls was the perfect finish to an innings that never really looked like going anywhere.
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