PAK vs NZ Cricket Betting Tips and Tricks: 4th ODI Match Prediction- Who Will Win Today ODI Match? 2023

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05 May 2023

Last Update on: May 5th, 2023 at 11:25 am

PAK vs NZ Cricket Betting Tips and Tricks: 4th ODI Match Prediction- Who Will Win Today ODI Match? 2023. The fourth ODI of the five-match ODI series between Pakistan and New Zealand is set to take place on May 5, Friday at the National Stadium, Karachi.

PAK vs NZ 4 ODI, Match Preview:

The home team Pakistan has won the series 3-0 with two more games to go, following a 26-run victory in the third ODI. New Zealand won the toss and asked Pakistan to bat first, the home team got off to a very slow start and they lost the in-form Fakhar Zaman early on in the innings, but a 108-run stand between Imam ul Haq and skipper Babar Azam got them back into the game.

Imam ul Haq was the star with the bat for Pakistan as he scored 90 runs off 107 balls. All the home batters got starts but only Imam managed to convert it to a big score. Skipper Babar Azam looked fluent for his 54 but fell soon after. New Zealand hung in there with regular strikes to ensure that Pakistan wasn’t running away with the game.

All the New Zealand bowlers managed to keep things reasonably tight with Adam Milne and Matt Henry being the most successful bowlers. Pakistan ended up with a competitive total of 287 on a slow surface.

In reply, New Zealand got off to a solid start as their openers Tom Blundell and Will Young put on an opening stand of 83 runs. But Pakistan bowlers kept chipping away with wickets and kept a lid on the scoring rate. Tom Blundell produced an impressive fifty while skipper Tom Latham got another start but the latter wasn’t able to bat deep into the innings.

New Zealand struggled considerably to up the ante at the back end of the innings and it took a fabulous 45-ball 64 from Cole McConchie to reduce the margin of defeat as they lost by 26 runs. The visitors will look to bounce back in the next game.

Key Players for Pakistan in PAK vs NZ:

Fakhar Zaman: The left-handed opener has been consistently scoring runs in the white-ball format for over a year now. He is currently the highest run-getter in the ODI series with 316 runs in just 3 games which includes two centuries. In the second ODI, he stayed unbeaten on 180 and took his team over the line.

Harris Rauf: The right-arm pacer has been highly impressive for his side in the white-ball format for the last few years. He has picked 30 wickets in just 18 innings at an economy rate of 5.78 in his ODI career so far. He was the highest wicket-taker in the T20I series with 11 wickets in 5 innings.

In the first ODI, he picked two wickets and in the second game, he picked 4 wickets and finished with figures of 10-0-78-4. He was rested in the last game but is expected to take part in the next game.

Key Players for New Zealand in PAK vs NZ:

Daryl Mitchell: The hard-hitting all-rounder looks to be in prime touch. He is coming on the back of a brilliant home series against Sri Lanka. He scored back-to-back tons in the ongoing ODI series and is currently the top run-getter for his side in the series, with 263 runs in just 3 games. In the last game, he scored 21 runs.

Matt Henry: The 31-year-old right-arm pacer is one of the most experienced bowlers for the Kiwis in their current squad. He has picked 120 wickets in 66 ODI matches he has played so far. He was impressive in the T20I series for the visitors, picking up 6 wickets in 4 games at an economy rate of 7.9, which includes a hat-trick in the first T20I. In the last game, he bowled an exceptional spell picking up 3 wickets, and ended with figures of 10-2-54-3.

PAK vs NZ 4 ODI Squads:

Pakistan Squad : Babar Azam ©, Shadab Khan (vc),Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Abdullah Shafique, Haris Rauf, Imam- ul-Haq, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ihsanullah, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Usama Mir.

New Zealand Squad: Tom Latham ©, Tom Blundell, Chad Bowes, Mark Chapman, Matt Henry, Ben Lister, Cole McConchie, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Rachin Ravindra, Henry Shipley, Ish Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Young.