Substitute Bond
Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori had already gone back home. James Neesham and Corey Anderson were ruled out with groin injuries. New Zealand were down to 11 men fit and available for the final ODI. A couple of UAE national team players had to be drafted in as two of the substitutes. The third sub on the team sheet was bowling coach Shane Bond. Bond had company, as South Africa bowling coach Allan Donald had also been kept on the substitute list in the Centurion Test against West Indies with his side hit by a string of injuries.
Accurate Irfan
New Zealand were on the charge in the slog overs but Mohammad Irfan wasn't willing to play along. He started the 49th with a couple of yorkers to Tom Latham. Latham tried coming down the track but the next ball was a sharp bouncer that he could only duck. Three successive dot balls. Top-class death bowling.
Jamshed's non-review
Nasir Jamshed was done in by Matt Henry's pace fifth ball of the chase and rapped on the pad. He was given leg-before but there was enough doubt about the decision for him to have a long discussion with the non-striker Ahmed Shehzad. Even as the two batsmen conferred, the time available for Pakistan to review elapsed, and Jamshed had to trudge back, only for replays to show the ball pitching well outside leg stump.
Shehzad's shocker
Shehzad had led Pakistan's recovery from 38 for 3 and guided the score past 100 in the company of Haris Sohail. Matt Henry had been brought back and bowled a half-tracker to Shehzad, batting on 54. Shehzad could not quite make up his mind whether to slog or pull and ended up lobbing it tamely to midwicket. He let out an anguished cry as soon as he hit the stroke, but the damage had been done.
