Predictably Pakistan: Sarfaraz & Co keep semifinal hopes alive after Afridi´s burst and Babar ton
(WorldNews Pakistan)

There came a moment in the chase when Babar Azam played a shot that convinced you that the game was done. Mitchell Santner was ripping it a lot, the ball breaking away sharply and pretty rapidly for a pitch that was supposedly slow. Time and again, Mohammad Hafeez was beaten. Anyone would be. Then came the Azam touch. There was a slip in place and the ball spun away from him, but he let his hands and the malleable wrists follow his instinct. The hands glided away, the bat-face turned, and he steered the ball almost with the bat-face turned around, behind square, and the ball winked past the slip fielder, who must have been astonished by the elegance, the skill, the touch. New Zealand had...