Date-stamped : 09 Mar94 - 06:25 Pak v NZ, ODI3, Wellington, 9 Mar 94 Pakistan wrapped up their five game one day series against New Zealand with an 11 run win. In a match reduced by rain to 48 overs Pakistan reached 213-6 with Inzamam ul Haq (88) and Aamir Sohail (76) putting on 142. New Zealand progressed steadily until the run rate began to increase and they fell 12 short finishing on 202-8. The victory gives Pakistan an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the series. The fourth match in the series will be played at Auckland on Sunday. Contributed by goo-chie (jdw5@*.ukc.ac.uk) ====> MORE Under cold and windy conditions at Wellington, New Zealand suc- cumbed to Pakistan, yet again, in the 3rd ODI to decide the series in favour of Pakistan. Put into bat, PAK scored 213/6 in 48 overs, thanks to a century partnership (142, highest for any wicket in the series so far) between the opening bat A Sohail and one drop IU Haq. Sohail scored 76(103 balls) with 8 fours, before hitting the ball into the hands of Young(long of) off Morrison in the 40th over when the score was 171. Morrison, the pick of the NZ bowlers, now in his second spell was bowling at his fastest in the series. In the 42nd over, he removed Basit and Wasim within a space of three deliveries to reduce PAK to 174/4. IU Haq went on to score 84(131 balls, 7 fours and a six) before trying a base-ball shot that went to Cairns at long on off Pringle in the 47th over. The NZ fielding was not up to the mark - Sohail, on 1, was dropped by Larsen at sqaure-leg and IU Haq by Pringle, both sim- ple catches. There were other half chances too, but then, they don't have a Jonty Rhodes. NZ had a steady start loosing the first wicket, that of Great- batch at 32 in the 9th over and that of Young at 76 in the 22nd over. Jones and Rutherford carried the total to 106, when a good piece fielding saw Jones being run-out. Though the um- pire asked for the third-eye, Jones, probably playing his last ODI, didn't wait - he knew he was out. NZ still had a good chance, with Thompson looking good and Rutherford at the other end. But then, Waqar and Wasim had five overs each to go. >From 168/3 in the 43rd over, NZ collapsed to 193/8 in the 47th over when a Waqar delivery, swung late and went past Larsen, just kissing the off stump and dislodging the bails. Larsen didn't want to believe he was bowled and took off for a run. One could see Waqar trying to stop him and saying "Larsen, you have been clean bowled !!". At the end of 48 overs, NZ reached 202/8, 11 short of PAK's total. Contributed by Amit (amit@*.hp.com) ====> MORE Pakistans takes the ODI series in NZ - Syed Ghazanfar Abbas Wellington (New Zealand) Pakistan won the 3rd. ODI by 11 runs and thus has taken a unbeatable lead of 3-0 in the five match ODI series being played between the two countries at present. Yesterday (9/3/94) NZ Captain Rutherford won the toss and elected to field. As the morning rain had slowed down the outfield, Rutherford thought that the expected more shower in the afternoon will be beneficial for NZ if the slow run rate of Pakistan at the initial stages will make their traget easy. (That is what NZ is making excuse of defeat in Dunedin in a 30 over reduced match a week ago). Anyhow, Pakistan started the inning knowingly that the match has been reduced to 48 overs each. Both openers were quite slow, (as against their reputation). At somewhere 27 Saeed was cleaned bowled (leg wicket) by a beauty. Then came Inzamam. He also started slow batting. In about 28 overs Pakistan were averaging about 2.80 runs per over. But wickets in hand everbody was sure that fire work will start any time. Inzemam was the first one to start. They had a 147 runs partnership which a new record for 2nd. wickets against NZ in ODI. Both batsman completed their 50s, and Sohail was out while his score was 78. Then 3/4 batsmen came and gone. Waseem got either one or a duck, before he was clean bowled. Similarly Basit continued his bad record of ODIs, where he has just one fantastic 127* against WI in Sharjah recently, but his all other ODI innings ended at less than scoring 15 runs. Here again he did not reach the double figures. Salim Malik was out at 10. Inzemam wanted to complete his 100 in the last three overs, and while trying to hit a bowler out of ground was caught near the boundry at his personnel score of 84.. It was quite cold in Wellington, thus there were very few shots out of the ground, as many landed about 3-4 meters inside the boundry. There were few catch drops too at the boundry line by both sides. Thus Pakistan finished 213/6 in 47 overs. The 48th. over could not be bowled due to time constraints. NZ started well. They lost Greatbatch (their Srikkanth, our Saeed Anwar) again cheaply at his own score of 9. NZ was about 25 at that time. Then the next batsman played well too. They were 100/2 in 28 overs. Jones was once again run out. He has been run out thrice against Pakistan in the current series. (Once in test match, and twice in ODIs). There was another run out at about 110. From that point onward the target for NZ became difficult and difficult. Wickets continued to fall at both ends. Pakistanis were not fileding at their best. They dropped two C & B chances, and 2-3 other cathes besides many misfileds which were not to be done by a "World Champion". But target of 213 was a bit more difficult for the Kiwis once in form Jones was run out. Thomson again played quick innings and scoired 38 runs. In last 10 overs asking rate became about 6.5/over, which continued to increase in every over, as the two Ws, started bowling their remaining overs. In the end NZ fell short by 11 runs (202 for 7 or 8) in 47 overs against Pakistan's 213/6. Thus Pakistan won the match and the series. I believe that the Kiwis performed a lot better in this match and are maturing by each match. The Indian Team is here now to play 3 ODIs, and one test match. Lets hope the Kiwis improve further. Remaining matches: 13/3 (Sunday), 16/3 (Wednesday) (Source: Pakistan News Service) Contributed by LAHORI (mzaidi@eden.rutgers.edu)