Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 5 wickets in the first match of the tri nation series also involving Sri lanka. Zimbabwe at one stage looked good enough to score in the excess of 200 runs when their openers Bennett and Marumani were scoring at a run rate of 10 runs per over. Setting a target of 200 runs would have been a match winning one but instead Zimbabwe collapsed to 147 for 8 in their allocated 20 overs innings.
A lot of credit goes to Fakhar Zaman and Usman Khan partnership and later on Muhammad Nawaz's innings that tilted the match in Pakistan's favour. Muhammad Nawaz all round performance with bat and ball is the reason why we were able to win this match. Zimbabwe with both the bat and ball had Pakistan in trouble and we were lucky to win against them and it was a close call for the Pakistani team.
in the end what i would like to say is that Pakistan and Sri lanka are most likely to play the final of this tri nation series.
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