Pakistan 61 for 0 (Ayub 36*, Yousuf 22*) beat Zimbabwe 57 (Muqeem 5-3, Afridi 2-2) by ten wickets

Zimbabwe start well, before collapsing

Even Haris Rauf's introduction didn't stanch the bleeding, Bennett showing his deft skills and picking up two boundaries behind point on the off side. By the end of the fourth over, Zimbabwe sat pretty at 37 for 0.

But what happened after that was as dramatic as it was ignominious for Zimbabwe.

When Salman Agha brought himself on, he had Dion Myers plumb in front off just his fourth delivery before Muqeem took over. Using the conventional wristspinner and the wrong'un, he had Zimbabwe's lower-middle order on a string. Ryan Burl was fooled by a googly that struck his pad in front of middle, while Tashinga Musekiwa had no answer to another wrong'un that knocked back his stumps for a golden duck. Clive Madande survived the hat-trick ball, but Muqeem returned to remove another two in his following over, and eventually finished off the innings when Madande top-edged him. He finished with figures of 2.4-0-3-5.

Easy chase, easily done by Pakistan

There was nothing complicated about Pakistan's chase, and the openers knew it.

Ayub wasn't to be outdone, and there was time enough for his signature shot: a whip off Trevor Gwandu off the pads behind square leg for six. It was Muzarabani's errant line once more that allowed Ayub to pick up two more boundaries that finished the game off.

It was telling of how little Zimbabwe had tested Pakistan that, on a blazing hot day in Bulawayo, when the openers took their helmets off and shook hands, there was barely a bead of sweat on their foreheads.