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| December 2, 2002 | Monday | Ramazan 26,1423 |
Younis dominates in Pakistan’s clean sweep
HARARE, Dec 1: Younis Khan starred with bat and ball as Pakistan completed a 5-0 whitewash over Zimbabwe in the final one-day international in Harare Sunday.
Pakistan, who totalled 300 for seven, won by 70 runs after dismissing Zimbabwe for 230.
Younis scored 90, took four catches, set up two run outs and took one for 24 with his occasional off spin.
The visitors slipped to 39 for three in the 10th over with Kamran Akmal, Misbah-ul-Haq and Faisal Iqbal all dismissed cheaply.
Inzamam-ul-Haq and Yousuf Youhana turned the tide with a fourth wicket stand of 51 that was ended in the 23rd over when Inzamam hammered a return catch to leg spinner Brian Murphy to be dismissed for 27.
Yousuf and Younis then gathered runs with deceptive ease in their fifth wicket partnership of 129. But in the 40th over Yousuf was run out for 88.
Yousuf faced 93 balls and hit nine fours and a six. It was his first dismissal in four innings in the series, in which he scored 405 runs.
Three overs later Pakistan were 238 for six after Shahid Afridi was sent back by Younis and run out for eight by Olonga’s booming throw from fine leg to Murphy at the non striker’s end.
Younis went in the 46th over. His runs came off 75 balls and included nine fours and a six.
A brisk second wicket stand of 103 between Dion Ebrahim and Andy Flower kept Zimbabwe in the hunt, but the home side’s innings was destroyed as eight wickets tumbled for 66 runs in the space of 18 overs.
Ebrahim was run out by Younis for 36 in the 23rd over, followed three overs later by Andy Flower top edging a sweep shot off spinner Saqlain Mushtaq to Wasim Akram at backward square leg.
Flower scored his 72 off 67 balls and hit six fours and a six.
Scoreboard
Pakistan
Kamran Akmal c Taibu b Friend 3
Faisal Iqbal c G.Flower b Olonga 25
Misbah-ul-Haq c and b Friend 0
Inzamam-ul-Haq c and b Murphy 27
Yousuf Youhana run out (G.Flower) 88
Younis Khan c A.Flower b Hondo 90
Shahid Afridi run out (Olonga) 8
Wasim Akram not out 24
Saqlain Mushtaq not out 13
Extras (lb-2 nb-1 w-19) 22
Total (for seven wickets, 50 overs) 300
Fall of wkts: 1-15 2-16 3-39 4-90 5-219 6-238 7-267
Did not bat: Muhammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar
Bowling: Friend 10-0-57-2 (w-11), Olonga 10-0-53-1 (nb-1 w-2), Hondo 10-1-58-1 (w-1), Murphy 10-0-64-1 (w-5), G.Flower 8-0-49-0, Evans 2-0-17-0
Zimbabwe
M.Vermeulen c Younis b Shoaib 5
D.Ebrahim run out (Younis) 36
A.Flower c Wasim Akram b Saqlain 72
G.Flower c Misbah-ul-Haq b Afridi 28
A.Campbell c Younis b Saqlain 3
C.Evans c Younis b Afridi 8
T.Taibu c Younis b Afridi 6
T.Friend c sub (T. Umar) b Younis 6
B.Murphy run out (Younis) 4
H.Olonga c and b Sami 31
D.Hondo not out 15
Extras (lb-4 nb-2 w-10) 16
Total (all out, 45.3 overs) 230
Fall of wkts: 1-14 2-117 3-134 4-140 5-162 6-171 7-171 8-181 9-183
Bowling: Wasim Akram 7-1-14-0 (nb-2 w-1), Shoaib Akhtar 7-0-34-1 (w-5), Muhammad Sami 8.3-1-51-1 (w-3), Shahid Afridi 10-0-45-3, Saqlain Mushtaq 10-1-41-2, Younis Khan 2-0-24-1, Faisal Iqbal 1-0-17-0 (w-1).—Reuters
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