misc28367	New Zealand Under-23s v Pakistanis
	Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand 1972/73
Venue	Smallbone Park, Rotorua on 14th February 1973 (40-over match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	Pakistanis won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Pakistanis won by 23 runs
Umpires	WRC Gardiner, NO Wellington

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Pakistanis innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
Talat Ali	b Cater	19
Sadiq Mohammad	c Sowden b Chatfield	0
Zaheer Abbas	run out	97		164	12	-
Asif Iqbal	c sub (EK Gillott) b Cockburn	52		71	5	-
Nasim-ul-Ghani	not out	32
Wasim Raja	not out	14
Asif Masood	did not bat
Majid Usman	did not bat
*Intikhab Alam	did not bat
Azmat Rana	did not bat
+Masood Iqbal	did not bat
Extras	(2 lb)	2
Total	(4 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs)	216
Fall of wickets:
1-4 (Sadiq Mohammad), 2-42 (Talat Ali), 3-149 (Asif Iqbal), 4-179 (Zaheer Abbas)

New Zealand Under-23s bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Cockburn	8	1	53	1	-	-	64.00	6.62
Chatfield	8	3	36	1	-	-	64.00	4.50
Howarth	8	0	31	0	-	-	-	3.88
Cater	8	0	37	1	-	-	64.00	4.62
Sowden	8	0	57	0	-	-	-	7.12

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New Zealand Under-23s innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
PR Facoory	c Masood Iqbal b Wasim Raja	25
RA Pierce	c Asif Masood b Intikhab Alam	2
KN Puna	b Majid Usman	0
RW Fulton	b Wasim Raja	41		77	5	-
*GP Howarth	c Asif Iqbal b Wasim Raja	27
IR Snook	c Majid Usman b Intikhab Alam	17
SB Cater	st Masood Iqbal b Intikhab Alam	6
RJ Sowden	c Asif Masood b Intikhab Alam	54		48	7	1
+RW Newton	c Zaheer Abbas b Intikhab Alam	4
EJ Chatfield	not out	1
TE Cockburn	st Masood Iqbal b Intikhab Alam	0
Extras	(11 b, 4 lb, 1 nb)	16
Total	(all out, 165 minutes, 38.7 overs)	193
Fall of wickets:
1-4 (Puna), 2-40 (Facoory), 3-92 (Howarth), 4-100 (Fulton), 5-110 (Cater), 6-123 (Snook), 7-136 (Pierce), 8-192 (Newton), 9-192 (Sowden), 10-193 (Cockburn, 38.7 ov)

Pakistanis bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Asif Masood	5	1	14	0	-	-	-	2.80
Majid Usman	8	1	52	1	-	-	64.00	6.50
Wasim Raja	8	0	26	3	-	-	21.33	3.25
Nasim-ul-Ghani	8	0	44	0	-	-	-	5.50
Intikhab Alam	7.7	2	31	6	-	-	10.50	3.94
Azmat Rana	2	0	10	0	-	-	-	5.00

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Notes
--> RA Pierce retired hurt in the New Zealand Under-23s innings (team had lost 0 wickets) - he returned when the score was 123/6

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Zaheer Abbas and Asif Iqbal added 107 in 71 minutes for the third wicket in the Pakistanis innings
Pierce had suffered a broken nose in the Under-23 tournament in Gisborne which concluded on 10 February and just after he had commenced his innings in this match his nose began to bleed forcing him to retire