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Pakistan Complete 5-0 Whitewash Against Zimbabwe [Roundup]

As everyone expected, the Pakistani team led by Sarfaraz Ahmed put on a sturdy display of all-round cricket, whitewashing Zimbabwe in the 5-match series.

All the matches were played at Queens Sports Park in Bulawayo. Here is a roundup of all the games.

Overall Series

Man of the Series: Fakhar Zaman

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Most Runs: Fakhar Zaman 515 @ 257.50 in 5 innings

Most Wickets: Usman Khan 9 @ 11.00 in 4 innings

Match 1: Pakistan Won by 201 Runs

Toss: Zimbabwe, elected to field first

Pakistan: 308/7 (50 Overs)

Imam-ul-Haq 128 (134), Tendai Chatara 49/2 (10 Overs)

Zimbabwe: 107 all out (35 Overs)

Ryan Murray 32* (48), Shadab Khan 32/4 (9 Overs)

Man of the Match: Imam-ul-Haq

Match 2: Pakistan Won by 9 Wickets (84 balls remaining)

Toss: Zimbabwe, elected to bat first

Zimbabwe: 194 all out (49.2 Overs)

Hamilton Masakadza 59 (75), Usman Khan 36/4 (10 Overs)

Pakistan: 195/1 (36 Overs)

Fakhar Zaman 117* (129)

Man of the Match: Fakhar Zaman

Match 3: Pakistan Won by 9 Wickets (241 balls remaining)

Toss: Zimbabwe, elected to bat first

Zimbabwe: 67 all out (25.1 Overs)

Chamu Chibabha 16 (28), Faheem Ashraf 22/5 (8.1 Overs)

Pakistan: 69/1 (9.5 Overs)

Fakhar Zaman 43* (24), Blessing Muzarabani 43/1 (5 Overs)

Man of the Match: Faheem Ashraf

Match 4: Pakistan Won by 244 Runs

Toss: Pakistan, elected to field first

Pakistan: 399/1 (50 Overs)

Fakhar Zaman 210* (156), Wellington Masakadza 78/1 (10 Overs)

Zimbabwe: 155 all out (42.4 Overs)

Donald Tiripano 44 (71), Shadab Khan 28/4 (8.4 Overs)

Man of the Match: Fakhar Zaman

Match 5: Pakistan Won by 131 Runs

Toss: Pakistan, elected to field first

Pakistan: 364/4 (50 Overs)

Imam-ul-Haq 110 (105), Liam Roche 65/1 (10 Overs)

Zimbabwe: 233/4 (50 Overs)

Ryan Murray 47 (70), Mohammad Nawaz 47/2 (10 Overs)

Man of the Match: Babar Azam (106* off 76)

Records

The list of records which were broken in the 4th ODI can be found here.

Fakhar Zaman’s 515 runs in a bilateral series are second only to Virat Kohli’s 558 versus South Africa (6 innings)
This is the first time Pakistan have scored consecutive 350+ runs (399 and 364)
Pakistan have won 7 series by a 5-0 margin which is the best. India has 6
Imam-ul-Haq has 4 centuries in 9 games, the first to make 4 tons inside first 10 games
Fakhar Zaman is the only batsman to have scored 500+ runs in a 5-match series
Shoaib Malik became the 8th Pakistani to cross 7000 runs in ODIs
Fakhar Zaman scored 455 runs between two dismissals, the highest ever. Previously the record was held by Mohammad Yousaf with 405 runs
Imam and Fakhar became the 4th and 5th Pakistanis to outscore the opposition in ODIs in this series
Fakhar took only 17 matches to get to his first double century. The other 5 took at least 100 matches to get there
Fakhar broke the record for the fastest 1000 runs previously held by Vivian Richards (21 innings) by reaching the landmark in just 18 games
Junaid Khan reached 100 wickets landmark in 68 innings, becoming the 6th fastest Pakistani to get there