Hasan Nawaz, Pakistan Star, Bags Unwanted Record vs New Zealand in 5th T20I

NZ vs Pak: He was the hero a few nights back, but now, Pakistan 's Hasan Nawaz is facing backlash for this embarrassing feat. Nawaz registered another duck in the ongoing T20I series on Wednesday. The Pakistan star, who smashed the fastest T20I century, has now bagged a feat he would not be proud of owning. 

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The Pakistan cricketer now has registered three ducks in the bilateral five-match T20I series. He has become the first cricketer to hold such an embarrassing record. He scored no runs in the first two games, before smashing the fastest hundred by a Pakistani in just 44 balls. Then in the fourth game, he scored a solitary run and then another duck in the final game. In five games in the series, Nawaz amassed merely 106 runs at an average of 26.50 and a strike-rate of 185.96.

Meanwhile, not disheartened by the 1-4 defeat in the just-concluded series in New Zealand, Pakistan T20I skipper Salman Agha believes that the new faces tried out in the matches will eventually come through.

‘It is always going to be difficult’

"Look the conditions in New Zealand are normally challenging with the bounce, pace and movement in the pitches, so for players coming to play here for the first time it is always going to be difficult," he said after New Zealand won the fifth and final game in Wellington on Wednesday by eight wickets.

Salman, who is captaining the side in preparation for this year's Asia Cup and next year's T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, said the new players should settle down by then.

What's Next For Pakistan? 

The Men in Green would now take on the Blackcaps in the ODI format. The two teams are set to play a three-match ODI series with the first game starting on March 29.