Zimbabwe vs Pakistan, 4th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Australia and Pakistan in Zimbabwe T20I Tri-Series, 2018 Venue: Harare Sports Club, Harare Date & Time: Jul 04, 10:00 AM LOCAL

That's that from this game then. Hope you enjoyed the game and the coverage. Australia's taking on Zimbabwe tomorrow. Might be a dead-rubber, but you won't run short of entertainment, I promise. Be up and early tomorrow to catch all the updates from that game. Until then, cheers and goodbye!!

Sarfraz Ahmed: The bowlers did disappoint and I was not happy with that. After our bowling got over, it looked like a good batting track. We need to finish games as well but that did not happen despite two batsmen getting into the 40s. Big game tomorrow as we would try to take the winning momentum into the finals.

Hamilton Masakadza: Definitely much better from the boys as they put up a much better fight. They bowled well at the death and we ended 10 or 15 short. The guys did not operate better under pressure. We don't get too many international games so every game is important.

Solomon Mire, Man of the Match: Was a good day and it came off today. The game plan was to have one of the top three guys to kick on and get a big score. I had an operation after the WC qualifiers and have been struggling with the ball a bit. Felt better today.

by 7 wickets. Full Scorecard:

531 35

Teams:

Zimbabwe: Solomon Mire, Cephas Zhuwao, Hamilton Masakadza(c), Tarisai Musakanda, Peter Moor(w), Elton Chigumbura, Malcolm Waller, Tendai Chisoro, Chris Mpofu, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani

Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Hussain Talat, Sarfraz Ahmed(w/c), Shoaib Malik, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Amir

ICYMI - Finch smashed 172 - the highest score in T20I and the second highest in T20s - against Zimbabwe yesterday. It'll be interesting to see how they bounce back from that.

Hello and welcome to the live blog of the fourth match of the tri-series between Zimbabwe and Pakistan. The tri-series has reached its midpoint. The teams involved played two games each, and are left with two each to stake a claim for the final on Sunday. Both Pakistan and Zimbabwe were wrestled into submission by Australia, who now perch pretty at the top of the points table after successive wins.

Hosts Zimbabwe haven't helped themselves with back-to-back losses and now find themselves in a must-win game against Pakistan on Wednesday (July 4). A loss, in all likelihood, could mean curtains for Zimbabwe and the last opposition they - or any other team - would want to face in such a situation would be a number-one ranked side. It's the last chance saloon for the home side, a daunting one at that.

The promise Zimbabwe showed in the tri-series opener now seems a long time ago. Winning the toss, incidentally, was the only thing that worked in their favour, but that said, chasing totals haven't helped their cause after losing games in a meek-surrender resulting in a huge dent in their net run rate (-4.350) while at it. So to speak, the home team should not only win their remaining games but have to win big to stand any chance of making it to the weekend.

Pakistan, albeit, would be better off facing Zimbabwe after being blown away by Billy Stanlake's hostile spell, on Monday, which saw them stoop to their biggest loss in the format (in terms of balls remaining). The Asian side, however, will also know that their hopes of making it to the final will firmly rest on the outcome of the Wednesday clash and could come prepared for the contest with an 'all guns blazing' intent.