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A fluent century opening stand between Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed set up a comfortable seven-wicket win for Pakistan over New Zealand in the fourth one-day international on Friday. The two youngsters scored half centuries to make a victory target of 184 runs look easy with a stand of 134 from 166 balls. It was their second successive century partnership of the series, which Pakistan now lead 4-0 with one match to play.
Farhat (82 from 117 balls, 14 fours) and Hameed (61 from 80 balls, seven fours) were in such dominant form that they brought up 50 in the 7th over and 100 in the 20th over.
New Zealand captain Chris Cairns described the defeat as a “good old fashioned hiding. We have to face reality. We are a very inexperienced side and we are up against a very experienced side. But no one likes to be on the losing side,” he said.
“But despite the defeats I think it is a good experience for our newcomers who are learning what international cricket is all about.” Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq made it clear his team would be going all out for a whitewash in the final match on Sunday.
BRIEF SCORES
New Zealand: 183 (C Harris 25, C Cairns 48, Shoaib Akhtar 3/23, Shoaib Malik 2/46).
Pakistan: 184/3 (Y Hameed 61, I Farhat 82, Canning 2/30).
