Pakistan won the Twenty20 series 2-0 with Shehzad's record batting

The Dhaka Times Desk Neither could Shehzad, although his unbeaten 98 made the difference between the two teams. In response to Pakistan's 179 for 1, Zimbabwe managed to score 160 for 6 in the allotted 20 overs. Pakistan won by 19 runs. Shehzad had a chance to become the first Pakistan batsman to hit a century in T20Is, but had to settle for 98 not out at the end of the over.

Zimbabwe won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat. However, the Zimbabwean bowlers could not prove the correctness of captain Brandon Taylor's decision. Pakistan played uphill from the beginning of the game. Nasir Jamshed played an innings of 23 runs off 17 balls before being caught out by Masakadjar in 5.4 overs. This was the only wicket the Zimbabweans got. After that, Shehzad and Hafeez duo gave Pakistan a huge collection of 179 runs in 20 overs with a record partnership of 143 runs for the second wicket.

On the way to an innings of 179, Shehzad played an unbeaten 98 off 64 balls, the highest for Pakistan. Earlier, the highest innings was Misbah-ul-Haq's innings of 87 runs. Captain Hafiz played as a worthy partner. 54 runs came from his bat in 40 balls.

Batting in reply, the Zimbabweans had a very slow T20 batting start, as a result of which they eventually had to accept a 19-run loss. Captain Taylor got out for just 3 runs after Sibanda got out after scoring 23 runs from 33 balls for the team's 50 runs, Pak captain Hafeez took both the wickets. After that, Hafeez struck again at the head of the team's 95 runs, returning Masakadza. Masakadza scored 41 runs off 32 balls.

Then Zulfikar Babar picked up two consecutive wickets of Williams and Maruma in 14.4 and 14.6 overs. Zimbabwe lost 5 wickets for 109 runs. But finally Chigumbura and Waller tried, but they did not see success. After 146 runs, Waller got out after scoring 20 runs off 14 balls, but Chigumbura remained unbeaten with 35 runs off 19 balls. Zimbabwe scored 160 runs in the last 20 overs.

Ahmed Shehzad won the man of the match award for scoring the highest runs. He was man of the match by scoring 70 runs in the previous match as well, as a result he also won the player of the series award in the two-match Twenty20 series.