Pakistan vs Zimbabwe, 1st Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Tinotenda Maposa to Nawaz, FOUR, slaps this past backward point to clinch the game as Pakistan win by 5 wickets. It's the sixth T20I defeat for Zimbabwe in the country. They are yet to record a T20I win in Pakistan...

Tinotenda Maposa to Nawaz, FOUR, Maposa looks to bowl the yorker and ends up serving a low full toss outside off, Nawaz opens the bat face and slices it past the keeper to his right

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, 1 run, clips the full ball wide of mid-wicket and rushes through to make it 12 off the over

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, SIX, full ball in the slot outside off, Fakhar Zaman clears his front leg and clubs it down the ground over long-off for a 84-metre maximum

Tinotenda Maposa to Usman Khan, leg byes, 1 run, slower length delivery on leg stump, Usman Khan misses the flick and hustles across to the other end for a quick single. Appeal for leg before, but the line was an issue there...

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, 1 run, stabbed away wide of backward point for a quick single

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, 2 runs, a direct hit would have been curtains for Fakhar Zaman, not to be. He pushed the drive to cover and ran across for a quick single. Nearly gave up midway on seeing Burl rush to the ball. Unfortunately for Zimbabwe, it's a wild throw at the bowling end, enabling an extra run on the overthrow in the process...

Tinotenda Maposa to Usman Khan, 1 run, slower full delivery curling into middle and off, Usman Khan skews it off the toe end wide of long-on

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, 1 run, slanting away from a length outside off, Fakhar cuts off the back foot to the right of sweeper cover

Tinotenda Maposa to Fakhar Zaman, no run, full and in the channel outside off, Fakhar mistimes the drive to mid-off

Tinotenda Maposa to Salman Agha, out Lbw!! Two lbws. Two reviews and both out on umpire's call. Another day and luck would have switched sides. An excellent yorker from Tinotenda Maposa, gets the ball to tail in late and smashes Salman Agha on the front boot a shade in front of off stump. Ball tracker suggests that it was umpire's call on impact and that was all Zimbabwe needed. As soon as the bowler appealed, umpire Asif Yaqoob had his finger up in a flash. The visitors look cock-a-hoop and rightly so. Salman Agha lbw b Tinotenda Maposa 1(2)

Tinotenda Maposa to Saim Ayub, 1 run, lots of width on offer, Saim Ayub slaps it to the right of Burl at sweeper cover

Tinotenda Maposa to Saim Ayub, no run, swinging away from a length outside off, Ayub tries to punch on the up and gets an outside edge dribbling to the right of short third

Tinotenda Maposa to Saim Ayub, no run, short of length outside off, Ayub opens the bat face and punches to the right of cover

Tinotenda Maposa to Sahibzada Farhan, 1 run, 134ks low full toss on leg stump, whipped away off the thick inside half to deep mid-wicket

Tinotenda Maposa to Sahibzada Farhan, 2 runs, 132ks length ball angled into middle and leg, Farhan heaves and drags it off the thick inside half to the right of deep square

Tinotenda Maposa to Sahibzada Farhan, no run, much better from Tinotenda Maposa! Shortens the length and attacks the stumps, Farhan sits back and pokes it into the off-side

Tinotenda Maposa to Sahibzada Farhan, FOUR, he's missed out on the previous delivery, but not this time. When the length is that full, all Farhan needed to do was unleash his hands on the drive. He does exactly that and pierces the gap between cover and mid-off

Tinotenda Maposa to Sahibzada Farhan, no run, overpitched outside off, Farhan slams it hard straight back at the bowler. Tinotenda Maposa does well to stick his left hand out and take the pace off that stroke...

Tinotenda Maposa to Saim Ayub, 1 run, fuller and enough width for Saim Ayub to push the drive wide of extra cover for a quick single