Summary

  • Pakistan with eight balls to spare

  • Asif 27* (12), Shoaib 27* (20)

  • Asif & Shoaib add 48 off 23 balls

  • Rizwan 33 (34); Sodhi 2-28

  • Conway takes stunning diving catch

  • NZ 134-8: Rauf 4-22; Conway 27 (24)

  • Mitchell 27 (20), Williamson 25 (26)

  • NZ's Ferguson out of T20 World Cup

  • Super 12s, Group 2, Sharjah

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews, Ffion Wynne and Amy Lofthouse

  1. 6 runs

    NZ 54-1

    Intent!

    A big shot was coming and Daryl Mitchell toe-ends a six down the ground.

    Shaheen Shah Afridi was interested for a while but it was well out of his reach in the end.

  2. NZ 48-1

    Mitchell 21, Williamson 8

    The squeeze is on.

    Just a well-run two and leg bye from Shadab Khan's first over means just six runs from the last two overs.

    Pressure building.

  3. Haris Rauf came on to find a breakthrough. He did that and now he is off.

    Leggie Shadab Khan is on.

  4. Carlos Brathwaite
    West Indies all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand are trying to feel their way into this tournament. It's evenly poised.

  5. NZ 45-1

    Really good over from Imad Wasim with just three singles off it.

    He's 0-16 from his three overs.

  6. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    That last delivery was 92mph.

  7. NZ 42-1

    Kane Williamson is up and running straight away with a single, before flicking the final ball of the over past short fine leg and away to the boundary.

    Haris Rauf covers his face in disappointment. Does he think he's unlucky that hasn't been caught or is he angry at himself?

    Powerplay over. Honours even.

  8. New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson is the new batter.

  9. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Guptill was definitely limping as he went off. The physio went straight to him as he came up the stairs.

  10. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was on the cards - quick, fast, and Guptill had no idea.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Guptill b Rauf 17 (NZ 36-1)

    Bowled him!

    Haris Rauf's first ball is a 93mph yorker that goes in between Martin Guptill's pads. Rauf follows him second ball again, as Guptill looks to back away to leg, and the back cannons off the back thigh pad onto the stumps.

    Pakistan needed that breakthrough. New Zealand were starting to accelerate.

  12. Double change for Pakistan with Haris Rauf replacing Imad Wasim.

  13. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Guptill looks like he's seeing the ball really well.

  14. NZ 39-0

    This is becoming a trend at the moment. Pakistan just can't get out of their overs.

    After conceding that six first ball Hassan Ali had come back well with just three singles from four balls, but then he drops short and wide and Martin Guptill thumps the ball to the point boundary.

    Oh, no. It is a no-ball too. A massive one.

    The free hit is a good delivery though and Guptill can only work it for a single.

  15. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand, who have weathered the early storm, can enjoy a little bit of a respite and perhaps see that scoreboard moving.

  16. 6 runs

    NZ 27-0

    Welcome Hassan Ali!

    The pace bowler replaces Shaheen Shah Afridi and Daryl Mitchell, opening for the first time in more than 100 T20 games, plants him over long-on.

  17. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    It's an interesting pitch they're playing on. It's one of those that looks like a mirror.

  18. NZ 21-0

    Argh! Babar Azam will be tearing his hair out. Again Imad Wasim bowls a tight over but Martin Guptill manages to pick up a boundary from the final ball of the over.

    This time it was a misfield from Shoaib Malik too. Sloppy that really.

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  20. NZ 15-0

    A dot ball to end the over.

    Good start for Pakistan this.