New Zealand vs Pakistan, 1st T20I at Auckland, , Jan 15 2016 - Match Result

10.35pm That's it from us after a highly entertaining T20 game between two quality sides. There's plenty of other cricket happening around the world - do tune in to our ball-by-ball coverage of all those games. Until we meet next time, goodbye!

Shahid Afridi - he's the Man of the Match too: "Mohammad Hafeez played an awesome innings, I must say it was a great team effort. We just arrived two days ago, we weren't used to the pitch. We were confident of defending 171. Must give credit to the fast bowlers, especially Umar Gul and Mohammad Amir, they came back [after a long time] and bowled tight. Those two wickets [I took] were crucial. First two overs I didn't bowl well, didn't bowl in the right areas, and there was something in the pitch for the spinners. [That diving catch I took] was amazing."

Kane Williamson: "Pakistan played very well, they are a very good T20 side. Thoroughly deserved. The ball was holding up a bit on the wicket and [our bowlers] were a little bot slow to adjust. We wanted to take the pace off the ball a little bit more on this surface, and we would have liked to do it a little bit better and a little bit longer on this surface. They perhaps learned from our performance a little bit and did it very very well. We weren't willing to suck up a few balls to get set, and failed to build partnerships. Hamilton will be a slightly different surface, we know we're in for a tough fight."

Shakeena Samadh: "That is what happens when you judge your batting strength with the performances against a young and inexperienced bowling attack like Sri Lanka."

Faisal: "What a match Afridi had today, i have been thinking how to demonstrate his 23 fihure but last ball of the match made it easy. so 23 runs means 2 wicket 3 catches. 2+3=5 means he is involved in 5 dismissals. Man of the Match?"

Moazam: "Eden Park is quite lucky for Pakistan. They had won the match against tournament favourite South Africa in WORLD CUP last year and now they had won against MIGHTY hitting New Zealand here"

DM: "Williamson has to stop running Guppy out."

Mian: "Good win by Pakistan but they should make one change for the next game: Mohammad Rizwan in for Sohaib Maqsood. Rizwan is a good fielder and a reliable batsman as well. Sohaib has been out of touch for way too long."

10.20pm An excellent display from Pakistan's bowlers, all five of them chipping in to keep New Zealand down to 155. Kane Williamson fought his way out of a scratchy start, played some excellent shots at the end, and Colin Munro gave the chase momentum with a quickfire fifty, but Pakistan kept getting wickets and pegging them back. A promising return to international cricket for Mohammad Amir, who picked up a wicket with his last ball, having been denied twice earlier by dropped catches.

Trent Boult. Won't be on strike, though.

Twice denied by dropped catches, but finally Amir picks up a wicket on his comeback game. Now Wahab comes on to defend 20 off the last over.

Karim: "That yorker reminded me of Guldozer from T20 worldcup."

Matt Henry.

39 from 18. Gul to bowl his last over.

Anshul: "Amir could have atleast two wickets, both these batsmen, if the fielders had held on to easy catches!"