ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Brendon McCullum smashed a century and Scott Styris picked up three wickets to lead New Zealand to a 64-run win over Pakistan in the second one-day international on Friday.
Powered on by opener McCullum's 131, New Zealand posted 303 for eight and then bowled out Pakistan for 239 runs in 47.2 overs to square the three-match series at 1-1.
Salman Butt (59) and Khalid Latif (45) gave Pakistan a solid start by notching up 77 runs for the opening wicket in just over 16 overs before Pacer Styris triggered a middle order collapse.
Pakistan lost four wickets for 10 runs as Styris had Younus Khan (19) caught at midwicket by Ross Taylor. The two combined again one ball later to get rid off Shahid Afridi for a duck.
Kamran Akmal (4) also fell to Styris while Butt was eventually run out trying to steal a sharp single to mid-off to leave Pakistan floundering on 134 for five.
Kiwi skipper Daniel Vettori grabbed the wickets of Latif and Mohammad Yousuf (18) trapping both of them leg before.
Earlier McCullum notched up his hundred from 129 balls, smashing 14 fours and three sixes in an innings that propelled his team to a big score.
Wicketkeeper McCullum, who struggled to hit his best form in the recent Champions Trophy, tore into the bowling before getting a thick inside edge on to his stumps in the 47th over.
He reached his hundred from 107 balls.
(Editing by Ken Ferris and Pritha Sarkar;
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Sign in to post a commentno mcCullumn is not as sachin. so thet is not becoms power of NZ
careless and irresponsible sachin, he is a master dont he knows who is backing him up. He was happy at that point with his own performance. i prefer the inning of shane watson on 93 he is out, but he contributes his best for the team, why we are soul less when sachin leaves the ground, Raina cant he take the stands to finish
We have seen the referral system tried out at Wimbledon and it worked really well. There is no reason to believe that it will not work in cricket too.
The tourists missed Strauss's conviction in marshalling the side in the field and his batting is always valuable because he is such a fluid player when he is in form.
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NO ONE CAN BREAK THE RECORDS CREATED BY SACHIN IN FUTURE ALSO.