Imam ul Haq hospitalised as New Zealand whitewash Pakistan in Bay Oval-OxBig News Network

Pakistan batter Imam-ul-Haq was hospitalised after being hit in the face in Pakistan’s 3rd ODI match vs New Zealand. Imam was forced to leave the field in the third over of the team’s chase on Saturday, April 5, after a throw from short cover slipped through his helmet to hit his face.

Imam winced in pain and dropped to the floor right after the ball struck him. He was attended to by the team’s physio and was eventually carried off the field on a medical cart. Imam was checked for concussion and was substituted later in the game by Usman Khan. The broadcaster later informed that he was hospitalised due to his injury. Imam was batting at 1 off 7 balls at the time of getting injured.

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Pakistan’s hope of redeeming themselves in the third and the final ODI match of the series went up in flames after the visitors lost by 43 runs at Bay Oval. Pakistan failed to chase down 265 runs in a rain-curtailed match in Mount Maunganui.

On Saturday, Pakistan were bowled out for 221 runs while chasing 265 in the final match of the series. Babar Azam top scored for the side with a brisk 50 off 58. Apart from Babar, Mohammad Rizwan (37 off 32) and Tayyab Tahir (33 off 31) scored runs, but they were not able to take the side to victory.

The loss in the final ODI marked the end of a terrible series for Pakistan, who won only 1 match in the entire white-ball series. Before the ODI leg of the tour, Pakistan were hammered 4-1 in the T20I series

Coming into this game, Pakistan had already lost the 3-match ODI series. They lost the first two games of the 3-match series at Napier and Hamilton, respectively. The Mohammad Rizwan-led team was hammered in the first two matches by a team led by Michael Bracewell. In the first match, Mark Chapman scored a terrific hundred, which helped the hosts beat Pakistan by 73 runs.

In the second game, Michael Hay and Ben Sears combined to hand Pakistan a heavy defeat by 80 runs despite them chasing a score of 293 runs.