Pakistan vs New Zealand, 1st T20I at Abu Dhabi, PAK v NZ, Oct 31 2018 - Ball by Ball Commentary

full toss, he's hit this for four but that isn't enough. Pakistan win by two runs but New Zealand have given them a bigger fight than Australia did.

full toss, low full toss, which he swings into the gap at deep midwicket to pinch two. That means New Zealand need a six off the final delivery to force a tie and Super Over.

excellent yorker, right into the blockhole, Taylor can only squeeze this as far as the midwicket fielder.

slashes this down to square third man, 11 off three. This was a full toss, was it below the waist?

has he squeezed this to the fine leg boundary? Looks like he has, anyway the third umpire will have a check. This is full, angling into middle and leg, Southee squeezes this between his legs. Runs away past short fine. The fine leg fielder puts in a desperate dive but in trying to push the ball back in, he disturbed the advertising hoardings beyond where it should've been. Four runs, useful runs, to keep the game alive

drills this full delivery to mid-off, only a single.

swings, misses and hears the stumps rattle. Hasan bowls full, straight, gets this to veer in late and beat the swing to hit the middle of middle. Hint of reverse? Whatever, he's done the trick.

yorker-length, squeezed to mid-off. 17 off seven now.

another muscular hit into the leg side, the throw from deep midwicket is week and Seifert makes it back. They would've gone for the second anyway.

mowed into the gap at deep midwicket, they'll scamper a second. He picked the slower ball and belted it away. Excellent work in the deep too

top-edges this wide of the keeper, crucial crucial boundary it could be. Not a bad delivery, beat him nearly with a slower bouncer, Taylor swung hard to get some bat. Raced away. Is there life in the game still?

how far has he hit this? Not quite far, Malik takes an excellent catch running backwards at long-on. The ropes were just behind him and he was mindful of that. Held his balance very nicely to complete the catch. Anderson was deep inside the crease to manufacture the length, couldn't quite get underneath and hit this straight to the fielder.

waist-high full toss which he doesn't get hold of, hit to mid-on as they take a single.

big inside edge as he attempts a mow over the leg side, they scamper a run off a deflection towards point.

pulled away and this is quite ferociously done as well, no chance for deep midwicket for Taylor picked the bones out of it. This will ease some pressure. The drought has been broken, Ross's favourite area

makes room and belts this full toss into the gap at sweeper cover. This was a slowish throw to Shaheen who breaks the stumps, but I suspect the non-striker was comfortably in. Yes, very easy. No issues there.

swung through even before the ball arrived, only for the ball to hit his thigh. Shaheen Afridi was quite convinced about the lbw and implores his captain to review. They go up to refer, and replays confirm this clearly missed the inside edge. Which means the only question was height. Hawkeye comes back to confirm this would've just clipped the stumps so it comes back as umpire's call

he's swung this across the line, but doesn't get hold. One bounce to deep square

slips this full delivery way down leg, the captain was ready with a full length dive to his left to stop this.

mistimes a slog to mid-off, takes on the fielder for a single but had given up. A direct hit and Taylor would've been involved in a second run out.