-Vinay Kumar
In the third and final match of the 3-match series between Pakistan and West Indies (West Indies vs Pakistan T20 Series, 2021), Pakistan defeated the West Indies by 7 wickets and cleaned the West Indies in this fresh series. In this final T20 match played on Thursday, 16 December, the pair of Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan thrashed the West Indies bowlers.
In this latest series, Pakistan had maintained its dominance in all the three matches. It is worth noting that due to many strong players of the West Indies team being infected with Corona, they were not in a battle with their real strength. Due to 6 players of the West Indies team and some support staff being found corona positive, the ODI series has now been rescheduled to June next year.
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Pakistan captain Babar Azam played a good partnership with Mohammad Rizwan. Captain Babar Azam batted with a stormy innings of 79 runs in 53 balls. Together they have scored a century partnership for the record sixth time. Batting first in this latest and final match of the series, West Indies players gave Pakistan a target of 208 runs to win. West Indies team captain Nicholas Pooran played an excellent innings of 67 runs in 37 balls. Brooke also played a fine innings of 49 runs. Talking about bowling, Mohammad Wasim Junior took 2 wickets. One wicket was taken by Shahnawaz Dhani.
Mohammad Rizwan made a new record
Pakistan cricket team’s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan has become the first batsman in the world to score 2000 runs in a calendar year of T20Is. The year 2021 has been excellent for Mohammad Rizwan. He has scored an average of over 55 in a calendar year. Rizwan has scored 2000 runs at a strike rate of 130 in total 45 innings of T20I matches he has played so far this year.