Shahid Afridi won the toss and batted. Daniel Vettori wanted to do the same. Both captains expected the drop-in pitch at the Westpac Stadium to have runs in it. Instead, Pakistan's batsmen faced a torrid examination of their techniques during an extravagant display of swing and seam bowling from Tim Southee. They were beaten innumerable times on both edges and five eventually succumbed to him. And the rest of the New Zealand attack, Hamish Bennett in particular, supported Southee by building pressure, giving away nothing. The outcome was a spectacular collapse that ended in the 38th over, leaving New Zealand with a modest target, which they overhauled with aggression.
The same sequence of events, with different characters, played on loop. A bowler pitched on a good length, the ball angled in before seaming away, the batsman fished, and if he was lucky, he missed. Pakistan's run-rate dipped below 3.50 after the second over and it did not reach that height again. Of the six boundaries that were hit in the first 30 overs, only two were the product of fluent strokes. Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq, who secured victory in the Test series, struggled but appeared to be guiding Pakistan out of the mire. Then Bennett, a fast bowler built like an All Black, ripped through the resistance with a double-strike in two balls. Amid the uncertainty over the identity of Pakistan's World Cup captain, Afridi failed while his deputy Misbah, defiant at one end, watched his team-mates come and go. Allan Donald, New Zealand's brand new bowling coach, looked on with satisfaction.
Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series - 1st ODI
New Zealand won by 9 wickets (with 196 balls remaining)
ODI no. 3085 | 2010/11 season
Played at Westpac Stadium, Wellington
22 January 2011 - day/night (50-over match)
| Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Kamran Akmal† | c Ryder b Southee | 8 | 31 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 34.78 | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | c †BB McCullum b Southee | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Younis Khan | c †BB McCullum b Bennett | 24 | 75 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 68.57 | |
| Asad Shafiq | lbw b Southee | 4 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | b Southee | 50 | 128 | 88 | 3 | 1 | 56.81 | |
| Umar Akmal | c Taylor b Bennett | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Shahid Afridi* | c †BB McCullum b Southee | 15 | 31 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 51.72 | |
| Abdul Razzaq | c †BB McCullum b Oram | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Abdur Rehman | c †BB McCullum b Oram | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Sohail Tanvir | c Ryder b Bennett | 6 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| Shoaib Akhtar | not out | 1 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 9) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 37.3 overs; 172 mins) | 124 | (3.30 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-7 (Mohammad Hafeez, 3.4 ov), 2-22 (Kamran Akmal, 7.1 ov), 3-29 (Asad Shafiq, 9.4 ov),4-57 (Younis Khan, 19.3 ov), 5-57 (Umar Akmal, 19.4 ov), 6-88 (Shahid Afridi, 27.4 ov), 7-96 (Abdul Razzaq, 29.5 ov),8-96 (Abdur Rehman, 29.6 ov), 9-106 (Sohail Tanvir, 33.6 ov), 10-124 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 37.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JEC Franklin | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 3.25 | |||
| TG Southee | 9.3 | 0 | 33 | 5 | 3.47 | (4w) | ||
| JDP Oram | 10 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 3.30 | (4w) | ||
| HK Bennett | 8 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 3.25 | (1w) | ||
| DL Vettori | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3.00 |
| New Zealand innings (target: 125 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MJ Guptill | not out | 40 | 74 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 97.56 | |
| JD Ryder | c Asad Shafiq b Sohail Tanvir | 55 | 45 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 161.76 | |
| LRPL Taylor | not out | 23 | 28 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 79.31 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 6) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (1 wicket; 17.2 overs; 74 mins) | 125 | (7.21 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SB Styris, JEC Franklin, BB McCullum†, JDP Oram, DL Vettori*, NL McCullum, TG Southee, HK Bennett |
| Fall of wickets1-84 (Ryder, 9.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Shoaib Akhtar | 4 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 11.75 | (1w) | ||
| Sohail Tanvir | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 5.57 | (5w) | ||
| Abdul Razzaq | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5.25 | |||
| Shahid Afridi | 1.2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5.25 | |||
| Abdur Rehman | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 |
| Match details |
| Toss Pakistan, who chose to bat Series New Zealand led the 6-match series 1-0 |
| Player of the match TG Southee (New Zealand) |
| Umpires CB Gaffaney and AM Saheba (India) TV umpire BG Frost Match referee AG Hurst (Australia) Reserve umpire PD Jones |
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