AUCKLAND: Pakistan cricket team is facing severe difficulties in the first T20 match against New Zealand, five players of the national team were within 50 runs.
Pakistan and New Zealand are facing each other in the first T20 International of the three-match seried at Eden Park in Auckland today. Both the teams are missing their regular skippers has the hosts are playing under Mitchell Santner and the guests will be led by Shadab Khan.
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Playing XIs:
New Zealand : Martin Guptill, Tim Seifert(w), Devon Conway, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), James Neesham, Mark Chapman, Scott Kuggeleijn, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, Blair Tickner
Pakistan: Mohammad Rizwan(w), Abdullah Shafique, Haider Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Shadab Khan(c), Khushdil Shah, Imad Wasim, Faheem Ashraf, Wahab Riaz, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf
