'Can you imagine the frustration' - Fans react as Matt Henry, Ajaz Patel stitch 100-run partnership against PAK in 2nd Test

Pakistan and England are locking horns with each other in the second and last of the two-match Test series at the National Stadium in Karachi. The visitors’ skipper Tim Southee won the toss and asked his batters to take the charge first. Batting first, the Kiwis had lost nine wickets on the score of 345 runs but what caught the attention of the cricket fans was an amazing 104-run partnership for the 10^th wicket between number-ten batter Matt Henry and number-eleven batter Ajaz Patel.

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Matt Henry played a wonderful knock of 68 runs off 81 runs with eight boundaries and two sixes to his name alongside a 35-run knock from Ajaz Patel including four boundaries. The pair left the Pakistan bowling line-up in frustration as they were supposed to bundle the visitors before the 400-run mark but unfortunately, they couldn’t and the last pair took New Zealand’s innings to the score of 449 runs before Ajaz Patel fell prey to Abrar Ahmed in the 107^th over of the innings.

The cricket fans also took to Twitter to react to the brilliant batting stuff from lower-order batters like Matt Henry against one of the mighty bowling attacks in the World. Meanwhile, the fans also trolled the hosts’ bowling approach while bowling against the tail of the visitors.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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Agr esy tarhan bowling rahy tou NewnZealand 500 bhi kerlega 🥲#NZvPAK #NZvsPAK #BabarAzam𓃵 #PakistanCricket

— Burair Ali (@BurairAli_khan) January 3, 2023

103 runs added by Henry and Ajaz for the last wicket!
Insane!#PakistanCricket #NZvPAK

— Ejaz Butt (@_Ejaz_butt) January 3, 2023

10th wicket 100 runs partnership btw Henry and Patel 🔥🔥#NZvPAK

— Rockz☜ (@Rockz055) January 3, 2023

Can you imagine the frustration Pakistan might be in now #NZvPAK #Cricket

— Mohd Imran - محمد عمران (@khankick007) January 3, 2023

Matt Henry and Ajaz Patel be like:#PakvsNZ #PAKvNZ #PakistanCricket #NZvPAK #NZvsPAK pic.twitter.com/dqqCYs9EX7

— legendrock31 (@Munnaaaaahhhhh) January 3, 2023

Highest partnership for the 10th wicket in Test :
v Pakistan

151 - BF Hastings & RO Collinge 1973
109 - HR Adhikari & Ghulam Ahmed 1952
107* - AB de Villiers & M Morkel 2010
106 - CL Hooper & CA Walsh 1993
104 - Matt Henry & Ajaj Patel 2023 * Today#NZvPAK #NZvsPAK #INDvsSL

— CC (@CC_Venture) January 3, 2023

New Zealand are all out for 449
A late counter-attack from Matt Henry and Ajaz Patel as they add 104 runs for the last wicket#NZvPAK #NewYearTest

— Crickdom (@Crickdom7) January 3, 2023

The bowler can't take the 10th wicket and the tailender makes a 100+ run partnership. #NZvPAK https://t.co/SewXc60nbv

— Cricket Connected (@CricketConnect9) January 3, 2023

Its a fun game 😂#BabarAzam𓃵 #NZvPAK https://t.co/648nuGJOow

— Navneet Singh (@f4c026e2214a471) January 3, 2023

Babar - jaldi jaldi Highway 🛣️ par run bana leta hu phir sab goat bolenge 😂😂

*Highway par hi run bana pata hai dusri condition me to hag deta hai zimbabar* #NZvPAK #PKMKBForever #pkmkb #zimbabar #ICC

— Ram bhakt (@rambhakt1412) January 3, 2023

Cmonnnnnnnnnnnnn NZ - let's get Pak bowled out for less than 200 now. #nzvpak

— SJ (@qbaldrunner) January 3, 2023

Earlier in the first innings of New Zealand, senior opening Devon Conway smashed a brilliant century with a knock of 122 runs off 191 balls hitting 16 boundaries and a six to his name. Veteran batter Tom Latham also accompanied Conway and the duo stitched a partnership of 134 runs for the first wicket with Latham falling down on the individual score of 71 runs off 100 balls with nine boundaries.

Other than these two, wicketkeeper-batter Tom Blundell also scored a half-century of 51 runs off 108 runs with five boundaries.

Young mystery bowler Abrar Ahmed scalped four wickets alongside three wickets each claimed by pacer Naseem Shah and spin-allrounder Agha Salman.