Pakistan will try to avoid being a whitewashed, while New Zealand will try to continue their winning streak.
As the fourth Twenty20 International of the five-match series approaches, New Zealand and Pakistan will be ready for action at Christ Church’s Hagley Oval on January 19, 2024.
New Zealand wins the series going into the fourth game. They have won the series and all three of the games, demonstrating their extraordinary success. Finn Allen’s masterclass throughout the series has strengthened their batting, as he hit the most maximum sixes in an innings and scored the most runs of any New Zealand batsman in a Twenty20 International.
Adam Milne and Tim Southee have taken six and eight wickets, respectively. In the first and second games, they each selected a four-for-one. In the next game, New Zealand will maintain their dominant position.
Pakistan, in contrast, enters the competition having been the victim on each of the three occasions. Babar Azam’s streak, which has seen him hit three straight fifty in three games, is their lone bright spot when it comes to batting, but all of those games ended in losses.Abbas Afridi and Haris Rauf have been in impressive form, taking five and seven wickets, respectively. Pakistan will try to recover so as to not be labeled as whitewashers.
Pakistan vs. New Zealand head-to-head:
Out of the 37 games that have been played between the two sides, Pakistan has won 20 of them while New Zealand has won 16 of them. One game was over with no outcome.
Records for T20I at Hagley Oval:
The pacers have taken 63 wickets at an average of 27.80 in the nine games played here, while the spinners have taken 34 wickets at an average of 30. First-batting teams have won three games, and chasing teams have won six. Here, batting first yields an average sco
Finn Allen, who has amassed 245 runs at an average of over 80 in as many games as possible and hit at over 200 in this series thus far, is in scorching form and will be the deciding factor for New Zealand in this match.
Babar Azam of Pakistan
Babar has amassed 723 runs against New Zealand at an average of over 45 and a strike rate of 133.39 in as many as 18 innings played. He has also scored seven half-centuries and a century.
Brand-new Zealand:
Tim Southee, Matt Henry, Adam Milne, Ish Sodhi, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Tim Seifert (wk), Daryl Mitchell, and Mitchell Santner (c).
Pakistan:
Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi (c), Zaman Khan, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Iftikhar Ahmed, and Mohammad Nawaz
