Game taken away by good batting - Williamson

• New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said that Sarfraz Ahmed's brief innings, along with fifties from Haris Sohail and Shahid Afridi who shared a 110-run, seventh-wicket stand, took the game away after New Zealand's bowlers had made early inroads.
• "I think when Sarfraz came out, his partnership with Sohail, and also Afrid's knock really took the momentum away. We were defending it well," Williamson said. "The run rate was going up, sometimes it's hard to manufacture wickets on these surfaces you need to build up the pressure and we weren't able to do that so I believe, the game was taken away by some very good batting."
• New Zealand had suffered their own wobble, stumbling to 111 for 5 before Ross Taylor rallied the lower order around him during an unbeaten 105, his third successive ODI hundred.
• "He's a world-class performer. He's shown that every time he comes on to the park and he's really enjoying his cricket which is great for us," he said. "It was an amazing knock, the ebb and flow of momentum he went through within his own innings, to come out the back and play a knock like that was fantastic."