- Matt Henry and Ajaz Patel put on 104 runs.
- New Zealand were bowled out for 449 on day two.
- The first Test ended in a draw, resulting in a 1-1 series tie.
PAK vs NZ: Day 2 of the second Test between New Zealand and Pakistan in Karachi ended with the Black Caps being bowled out for 449.
Matt Henry (68 not out) and Ajaz Patel (35 out) put on 104 runs for the last wicket to put pressure on the Pakistan bowlers.
Abrar Ahmed finally ends the 10th-wicket stand.
New Zealand are all out for 449 🏏#PAKvNZ | #TayyariKiwiHai pic.twitter.com/esH89R4AOd
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) January 3, 2023
New Zealand resumed the day at 309-6 and scored a further 124 runs before lunch.
The first Test, also played at Karachi, concluded in a draw, resulting in a 1-1 series tie.
Ish Sodhi, batting for 11, was bowled by a sharply cutting ball from Naseem, who got the opening wicket of the day.
Blundell, who turned 30 during the night, hit a boundary and a single off of Abrar Ahmed on his way to his fifty. Before being bowled by Ahmed for 51, he smashed six fours.
The spinner then dismissed Tim Southee 10 runs later, but Henry and Patel kept the innings going to enable New Zealand reach the 400-run milestone.
The main wicket-takers were Agha Salman (3.75), Naseem (3.71), and Ahmed (4.149).
After New Zealand’s opening batsman, Devon Conway, hit a stunning hundred on the first day of the second Test in Karachi, Pakistan’s off-spinner Agha Salman and pacer Naseem Shah helped derail the Black Caps to 309-6.
New Zealand’s middle order collapsed when Salman took 3-55 and Naseem took 2-44, leading to a five-wicket, 45-run collapse for the tourists in the last session, from 234-1 to 279-6.
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat on a field with hints of grass but little early help for bowlers, where Conway hit 122 and Tom Latham added 71.
After the visitors were 226-1 at tea, he helped steady the innings by putting on another hundred-run stand for the second wicket with Kane Williamson (who hit 36).
The score was 2-234 when Salman had Conway caught behind by Sarfaraz Ahmed, and then 6-236 when Naseem caught Williamson batting.
During his 257-minute innings, Conway hit 16 fours and a six.
Then, Salman struck twice in quick succession, first getting through Daryl Mitchell’s defence for three runs, and then getting Henry Nicholls caught behind off a turning delivery for 26.
“Whenever I get to bowl I want to contribute,” added Salman, who took 100 wickets.
“Once this pitch dried, it took more turn than the pitch we used in the first Test.”
When Abrar Ahmed caught Michael Bracewell batting, he removed him from the game for no runs.
Pakistan’s three-pronged speed attack struggled in the morning, but Naseem finally broke through after lunch by trapping Latham leg-before with a crisp entering delivery in the sixth over.
His 113 in the first game was the 24th Test half-century for Latham, and he blasted nine fours in his 100-ball innings.
When Saud Shakeel couldn’t hold onto a mishit drive by Hasan Ali on 89, Conway narrowly escaped a dangerous situation.
After the first Test, the hosts opted to replace spinner Nauman Ali with fast bowler Mohammad Wasim and fast bowler Neil Wagner with pacer Matt Henry.
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