After completing the whitewash of Australia in the three-match T20I series last week, Pakistan will look to carry the winning momentum into New Zealand T20I series which starts tonight in Abu Dhabi.
Pakistan is number one ranked T20I side and have been excellent in this format for the last two years and have also won their last 10 series. On the other hand, New Zealand will play their first international game after seven months and wiil be eager to start their 2018-19 season on winning note. A fresh New Zealand will give tough challenge to Pakistan and hopefully, this series will be more competitive than Australia series.
All the major stats and facts as Pakistan take on New Zealand in the three-match T20I series in UAE :
1. Head to Head -
| Venue | T20Is | Won by PAK | Won by NZ | Tied | NR |
| Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Neutral | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Overall | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
8 - Pakistan is on an eight-match winning spree in T20Is in UAE. Their last T20I defeat in UAE came against England in November 2015.
14.93 - Tim Southee's bowling average against Pakistan in T20Is. He has taken 16 wickets in just 8 T20I innings against them.
45 - Number of sixes Mohammad Hafeez has hit in T20Is and needs to hit 5 more sixes to achieve the milestone of 50 sixes.
95 - Babar Azam (905 runs in 23 innings) needs 95 more runs to complete 1000 runs in T20I format. And he will be fastest to reach this milestone if scores these runs in next three innings.
119 - Shoaib Malik (2153 runs) needs 119 more runs to go past Martin Guptill (2271) and become the leading run scorer in T20I format.
179.94 - Colin Munro's batting strike in T20I format since January 2017 - highest for any player since then (Min 250 runs). In this time period, he has scored 673 runs at an average of 44.86 and at a strike rate of 179.94 in just 17 innings with 3 hundreds and 4 fifties.
