Azhar Ali preferred to bat on a hot afternoon in Lahore but Pakistan got off to a slow start - only eight runs in the first five overs AFP
The Zimbabwe bowlers couldn't find the breakthrough though and with time in the middle... AFP
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...Azhar stepped on the gas soon enough AFP
Hafeez too found his rhythm. Both openers cruised to fifties and together they put on 170 for the first wicket AFP
Shoaib Malik and Haris Sohail then raised 201 runs for the third wicket. Malik cruised to 112 off 76 balls as Pakistan amassed 375 for 3, their highest total at home AFP
The Zimbabwe openers put on 56 runs but Sikandar Raza fell in the 10th over, after making 36 off 31 AFP
After Vusi Sibanda's fall, Hamilton Masakadza and Elton Chigumbura steadied the chase with a 124-run stand for the third wicket AFP
Masakadza made a run-a-ball 73 that included four fours and two sixes before holing out to Hammad Azam in the 33rd over, leaving Zimbabwe on 189 for 3 AFP
Captain Chigumbura struck some massive sixes during his maiden ODI ton. But he was undone by a Wahab Riaz yorker after making a 95-ball 117 AFP
Though Zimbabwe batted for 50 overs they were left with too much to chase and slipped to a 41-run loss AFP
