Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat in the first Twenty20 against Zimbabwe on Sunday. Pakistan has rested all its frontline white-ball players – including captain Mohammad Rizwan – for the three-match series as it tests its bench strength.

But Usman Khan had once again tried to show resistance with the bat by amassing 30-ball 39, smashing two boundaries and two sixes each.

Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by 57 runs in the first T 20 of three match series at Bulawayo today. Batting first, Pakistan scored 165 for a loss of 4 wickets in stipulated 20 overs. In reply, Zimbabwe were all out at 108 runs in 15.3 overs. The second T 20 between Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be played on Tuesday.

Left-arm spinner Sufiyan Muqeem took a career best 3-20 as Pakistan defeated hosts Zimbabwe by 57 runs in the first Twenty20 International in Bulawayo on Sunday.

An unbeaten fifth-wicket stand of 65 by Tayyab Tahir and Irfan Khan set up Pakistan for a 57-run victory over Zimbabwe on Sunday in the first of three T20I.

Read about how Pakistan ended up taking the lead in the first game of the three-match T20I series against Zimbabwe by ending up victors by a 57-run margin, only on CricTracker.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP) — Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat in the third and final one-day international against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Pakistan bounced back from a shocking loss in the rain-affected first match with a 10-wicket win in the second game after a maiden ODI century from Saim Ayub.