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. Pak 0-0

    Target 135

    Mitch Santner will open the bowling for New Zealand, and his first ball is clipped into the leg side by Mohammad Rizwan.

  2. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Haris Rauf was really impressive. Every time he came on you could sense something was going to happen. He just bowled full, straight and quick and really targeted the stumps.

  3. Out come Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, who crushed India in their run chase the other day.

  4. Cheers, Ffion.

    Pakistan look good, don't they?

  5. So, is that score going to be enough for New Zealand to defend? Or will Pakistan cruise to another 10 wicket win?

    Amy Lofthouse is on hand to take you through the second innings.

  6. Pakistan all-rounder Imad Wasim: "It kept a little bit low and was spinning a little bit. It isn't a typical Sharjah pitch where you can score 200 runs so I think it is a decent score.

    "I don't expect there to be much dew and I think the pitch will stay the same. It is a very good score but we'd have taken it before the toss.

    "They have a world-class bowling line-up and we shouldn't take them lightly."

  7. And here is that run out of Kane Williamson, which happened when New Zealand were 90-3 after 13 overs.

  8. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand will be frustrated. They are a few runs shy. They'll have been looking for 145-150. Wickets kept tumbling after the run out of skipper Kane Williamson.

    Pakistan bowled absolutely brilliantly.

  9. Pakistan need 135 to win

    A stunning bowling performance from Pakistan yet again, this time Haris Rauf leading the way with 4-22.

    They chased down 151 against India on Sunday without losing a wicket. Will they need more than two batters today?

  10. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    Haris Rauf wins the battle in the end! It has been a remarkable performance by Rauf.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Santner b Rauf 6 (NZ 134-8)

    Haris Rauf cleans up Santner and finishes with four wickets!

  12. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand needed that. It was a shot of an opener.

  13. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is a very classy shot.

  14. NZ 134-7

    Glorious! Driven firmly to the cover boundary by Santner. A much-needed boundary for New Zealand.

  15. NZ 130-7

    Swatted out to deep cover by Ish Sodhi, just a single.

  16. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That is classed as drop because Babar Azam definitely got there. It was a brilliant effort.

  17. NZ 127-7

    Nightmare! Santner drives the ball uppishly towards mid-off, Babar Azam pulls off a full-length dive but can't hold on.

    And they come back for two, to make things worse.

  18. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    Tim Seifert was trying to smash that ball out of Sharjah and into Oman.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Seifert c Hafeez b Shaheen 8 (NZ 125-7)

    The fun was nice while it lasted!

    An enormous swing from Tim Seifert and the ball loops up to Hafeez for a simple catch at point as it skews off the edge of the bat.

    Shaheen raises two arms in the air for his well-known celebration from the final ball of his spell.

  20. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    You know what the Pakistan bowlers are going to be bowling at this stage so Tim Seifert has taken that little bit of risk. It now means the bowler has to try something else.