Records tumble as Pakistan books final ticket

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By Chris De Silva and Emily Patterson

Lucky to past the radical stages, Pakistan's occurrence tally towards the T20 World Cup last has been fulfilled aft a seven-wicket triumph implicit New Zealand successful the semi-final.

The Kiwis won the flip and elected to bat, but failed to occurrence arsenic Pakistan restricted the broadside to 4-152 from its 20 overs, earlier its opening brace of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam shook disconnected signifier slumps astatine the cleanable time.

Pakistan paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi acceptable the code early, removing explosive New Zealand opener Finn Allen successful his archetypal implicit earlier finishing with figures of 2-24 from his 4 overs. New Zealand's top-scorer Daryl Mitchell made an unbeaten 53 disconnected 35.

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson made 46 disconnected 42 balls, but the Black Caps finished 10-15 runs beneath par courtesy of a terrific bowling show from Pakistan's pacemen successful the last overs.

In the field, New Zealand was made to wage for a costly driblet successful the archetypal implicit erstwhile wicketkeeper Devon Conway enactment down a accidental to disregard Azam connected his archetypal ball.

Conway dived to his close successful clip to marque the drawback but his close limb collapsed connected the outstretch, causing him to mitt the shot connected the ground.

After managing conscionable a combined 39 runs successful his 4 innings astatine the World Cup, Babar recovered his champion signifier successful the nick of time, finishing with 53 disconnected 42 balls earlier being caught successful the deep.

Pakistan's opening brace enactment unneurotic their eighth 100-run concern successful T20s, with the triple-figure people reached successful the 12th over. With the feat, Rizwan and Babar go the archetypal duo ever to person 3 100-run stands successful T20 World Cup matches.

The brace besides became the astir palmy concern successful presumption of runs scored successful T20 World Cup past surpassing the 572 runs scored by the erstwhile grounds holders, Sri Lanka's TM Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene.

Stream each the large matches from the men's T20 World Cup, including the finals, unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now.

Late wickets to Trent Boult and Mitchell Santner yet proved futile for New Zealand arsenic Pakistan reached the people with 5 balls to spare.

Pakistan mislaid its archetypal 2 games of the tourney before flipping the publication successful its last 3 radical matches. An unbelievable upset by the Netherlands implicit South Africa was the crowning changeable arsenic Pakistan conscionable slipped into the knockout stages.

Babar's men volition look to emulate the feats of Imran Khan's Pakistan broadside of 30 years earlier by claiming a World Cup triumph astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground connected Sunday against either India oregon England.

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