Which team is the favorite for Pakistan vs New Zealand T20 series........?

        Three match T20 series between Pakistan and New Zealand starts from December 18. Pakistan cricket team has already reached in New Zealand and Practicing for series.

Overall Performance:-

        21 times Pak and Nzl face each other in T20s. Pakistan won 13 matches and New Zealand won 8 matches

In those matches, Luck was in favor of team batting first several times. Bating first green caps won 9 times and black caps won 5 time while bating in the second innings "shaheen" won 4 and "kiwi" won 3.

          Batting 1st Pakistan maximum total was 201 and minimum total was 105 while New Zealand highest score was 196 and smallest total was 99 in first innings. Batting 2nd Pakistan highest total was 158 and smallest was 100 while New Zealand highest was 171 and smallest was 80 against Pakistan in 2nd innings.

        So far there have been 6 T20 series between these two teams in which Pakistan has won 3 times and New Zealand won 2 times against Pakistan and managed to draw a 2 match T20 series against Pakistan after losing 1st game in 2014.

Captains Performance:-

        Baber has so far lead Pak team in 9 T20s matches in which he has won 6 matches and lose 3 with win percentage of about 75% while Kane Williamson has so far lead Kiwi team in 42 matches in which he has won 19 games and lose 22 games with win percentage of below 50%.

        Batting in 1st innings Baber Azam average is 55 runs and 44 runs in the 2nd innings. Meanwhile he scored 10 half century in 1st innings and 6 in 2nd innings. The Kiwi captain average 27 runs in 1st innings and 39 runs in 2nd innings. He scored 4 fifties in the 1st and 7 fifties in 2nd innings.

        Kiwi captain 2nd innings battings record is better than 1st innings while pak captain 1st innings record is best as compared to 2nd innings.

Batting Performance:-

        Martin Guptil topped the list with 463 runs, Hafeez was 2nd with 412 runs and Kane Williamson was 3rd with 356 runs.

        Ross Taylor need 91 more runs to complete his 2000 T20 runs.

        Baber Azam need 225 runs in this series to top the ICC T20 ranking.

Bowling Performance:-

        In T20 matches between Pakistan and New Zealand , Tim Southee was the first with 17 wickets , Shadab khan and Mitchell were 2nd with 9,9 wickets and Wahab Riaz was 3rd with 6 wickets.

        Tim Southee was on top with 5/18 best bowling figure of the innings.

        Wahab Riaz is as usual expensive with economy of 9.04 runs per over.

 Conclusion:-

        Pakistan Cricket team is favorite according to overall performance but New Zealand will have the advantage of home ground. Kiwi captain is experienced. All Kiwi players do not hesitate hitting the ball for maximum. Kiwi tail enders can add some bonus run in case if top order batsman gone quickly. New Zealand always favorite in his home condition.