Zimbabwe vs Pakistan, 1st T20I at Harare, ZIM v PAK, Apr 21 2021 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Right, so that's all from our coverage of the first T20I. Thank you so much for sticking around with Peter and me, and we'll see you again in two days time.

Babar Azam isn't exactly overjoyed. "Wasn't a convincing win," he says. "The batsmen aren't performing, but we will try and come back in the second game. When you come to these wickets after bouncy wickets, you need to adjust. If someone hung around with Rizwan, we could have put on a bigger total."

Mohammad Rizwan's unbeaten 82 gets him the Player of the match award, not surprisingly. Carried his bat once more. "They won the toss and used the pitch well. The wickets here are different, the pitch keeps low. But Babar and I have this plan where if one fails the other tries to go deep. It's working for now. In Zimbabwe, the ball doesn't quite come on to the bat, but once Hafeez fell, my aim was to get us to 150."

Sean Williams says it's "inexcusable" the number of catches Zimbabwe dropped, especially against a side like Pakistan. Says he wanted to keep Pakistan to 130, and felt that was the par total. "I feel that second partnership to accompany that third wicket partnership was missing," he says. "The wicket played into our favour and winning the toss was crucial. Inexcusable to lose a game like that"

This game's the kind Zimbabwe lose a bit too frequently, unfortunately. They fail to put struggling teams away, and Pakistan were there for putting away several times in that first innings. At the end, the 12 wides bowled, and the sloppiness in the field came back to cost them, and the frenetic nature of the chase when it should have been a cakewalk didn't quite work in the end.

Talha Nawaz: "Pakistan has defended total of under 150 thrice against ZIM and ZIM made 137, 137 and 138 this time too close"

Shariq : "Strange obsession of Masakadza's to new Zealand, hamilton and Wellington " Never really thought about that but yeah. I hear there are 14 brothers, so they could have covered all of New Zealand pretty decently if they'd been so inclined

Jassia Zafar: "Would you please tell me the speed (kph) of that yorker from Haris Rauf?" Don't think the scoreboard carried it. If it did, I didn't catch it, unfortunately

Adil: "Last over of ZIM is hurting them now." Looks like that will be the difference between the two

Adil: "Last over of ZIM is hurting them now." Looks like that will be the difference between the two

Zain: "Pakistan will take the game into last over."

Haris into the attack now

Izaz: "Babar decision to persist with the spinners seems quite prescient right now"