ICC World Twenty20 - 1st semi final
Pakistan won by 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)
| New Zealand innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| L Vincent | c & b Fawad Alam | 28 | 31 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| BB McCullum† | lbw b Shahid Afridi | 26 | 39 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 96.29 | |
| SB Styris | c Sohail Tanvir b Umar Gul | 18 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 150.00 | |
| PG Fulton | c Shoaib Malik b Umar Gul | 10 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| LRPL Taylor | not out | 37 | 31 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 160.86 | |
| CD McMillan | c Younis Khan b Fawad Alam | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 200.00 | |
| JDP Oram | c †Kamran Akmal b Umar Gul | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| DL Vettori* | run out (Shahid Afridi/Mohammad Hafeez) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| SE Bond | run out (Fawad Alam/†Kamran Akmal) | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| JS Patel | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 3, nb 2) | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 20 overs; 79 mins) | 143 | (7.15 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MR Gillespie |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Mohammad Asif | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 8.50 | |||
| Sohail Tanvir | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 7.50 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 6.00 | (2w) | ||
| Fawad Alam | 3 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 9.66 | |||
| Umar Gul | 4 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 3.75 | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 |
| Pakistan innings (target: 144 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | lbw b Styris | 32 | 30 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 152.38 | |
| Imran Nazir | lbw b Patel | 59 | 48 | 41 | 3 | 5 | 143.90 | |
| Younis Khan | c †McCullum b Vettori | 4 | 22 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| Shoaib Malik* | not out | 26 | 29 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 185.71 | |
| Shahid Afridi | c Fulton b Bond | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | not out | 16 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 94.11 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2) | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 18.5 overs; 78 mins) | 147 | (7.80 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Fawad Alam, Kamran Akmal†, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif |
| Fall of wickets1-60 (Mohammad Hafeez, 7.1 ov), 2-96 (Imran Nazir, 12.2 ov), 3-104 (Younis Khan, 13.3 ov), 4-111 (Shahid Afridi, 14.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SE Bond | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | (1w) | ||
| MR Gillespie | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 | (1w) | ||
| DL Vettori | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5.50 | |||
| SB Styris | 3 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 4.66 | |||
| JS Patel | 3.5 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 8.08 | |||
| JDP Oram | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 15.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series Pakistan advanced |
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Player of the match
Umar Gul (Pakistan) |
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Umpires
DJ Harper (Australia) and SJA Taufel (Australia) TV umpire IL Howell Match referee MJ Procter Reserve umpire NJ Llong (England) |
| Match notes |
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Sep 22, 2007 Pakistan celebrate a job well done © Getty Images |
Sep 22, 2007 Cartwheeling to success: Pakistan celebrate making the final © Getty Images |
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