A page from Cricket Dairy of Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak, 7th December 2003 Pakistan wins ODI series 5-0 against New Zealand at Rawalpindi
Special Report;


The day was 7th December 2003 and it was the fifth and final ODI of Pakistan vs New Zealan at Rawalpindi. Pakistan won the match by4runs and wins series 5-0. In the above captioned photo at the end of the last and final 5ht ODI played on 7th December 2003 day /night at Pindi cricket ground Rawalpindi the New Zeeland’s former ODI captain, Christopher Lance Cairns talking to media, on left Asghar Ali Mubarak (on chair) while Mr. Samiul Hasan Burney Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) media director the then the Communication Officer International Cricket Council now the media manager Pakistan Cricket Board and ZeeShan Zishoo media coordinator of Pakistan Cricket Board are standing behind the Kiwi captain . Rawalpindi hosted two ODI back to back at Pindi cricket stadium. Pakistan won the series 5–0.
SCORECARD SUMMARY
NEW ZEALAND 307/8(50 OVERS)
Hamish Marshall84 (105)
Craig McMillan81 (81)
Azhar Mahmood2/38 (6)
Shoaib Akhtar2/46 (10)
PAKISTAN 303(49.3 OVERS)
Abdul Razzaq89 (40)
Inzamam-ul-Haq67 (81)
Kyle Mills2/65 (9.3)
Jacob Oram2/28 (10)
New Zealand was captained by Chris Cairns and Pakistan by Inzamam-ul-Haq. Earlier the New Zealand national cricket team toured the Pakistan. The New Zealand national cricket team toured Pakistan from 29th November – 7th December 2003 and played a five-match One Day International (ODI) series against the Pakistani national cricket team. Earlier the he former ODI captain, Christopher Lance Cairns missed the tour in 2002 which was incomplete due to bomb blast outside the hotel in Karachi. New Zealand Cricket team was safe but that the decision was made for the team to return back to New Zealand. The explosion – believed to have been the work of a suicide bomber – went off in a parked bus and killed 12 people, including 10 French defense technicians. Thirty-four others were injured, some of them seriously. It was not the first time the New Zealand side has seen tours affected by bomb blasts. In 1987 their tour of Sri Lanka was abandoned after just one Test following an explosion at a bus station in downtown Colombo. And in 1993 a ranking officer in the Sri Lankan navy was killed by a car bomb outside the team hotel. Earlier the West Indies called off a tour to Pakistan, which was later played on neutral territory in Sharjah. The former ODI captain, Christopher Lance Cairns one of the best all-rounder’s to have graced the game of cricket, is considered a legend in New Zealand who played for the New Zealand cricket team as an all-rounder. Cairns finished his Test career with a batting average of 33.53 and a bowling average of 29.40. Cairns was a destructive batsman who could hit sixes straight down the ground and in his earlier days was an intelligent fast-medium bowler. Since then, persistent injuries have forced him to drop his pace and rely more on his hard-to-read slower ball. Cairns’ career-best bowling performance in Tests was 7/27 against the West Indies in 1999, and he is New Zealand’s Sixth highest wicket taker in Tests, after Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, and Chris Martin. He is an only eight players to have reached the all-rounder’s double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs. Out of these seven players, Cairns reached the double 2nd fastest (58 Test) behind Ian Botham. In ODIs, Cairns came close to another double of 200 wickets and 5000 runs. Cairns finished his ODI career on 4950 runs, just 50 short. Cairns Test batting average at number seven (44.02) is the 5th best average for that position of all time. In December 2013, Cairns was the subject of allegations in an ICC investigation into match-fixing. He is alleged to have attempted to manipulate games in India when he was captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the short lived Indian Cricket League. Cairns have rejected these claims. The Former New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent, an admitted match fixer, has said that Cairns had approached him about fixing matches. New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum also told the Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) of the International Cricket Council that Cairns made a match fixing approach to him. Cairns insists that he has never fixed a match, saying Vincent wanted to “mitigate his sins by blaming others” and taking issue with McCullum having waited three years before approaching the ICC. In March 2012 Cairns successfully sued former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi for libel, after Modi posted on Twitter in 2010 that Cairns had been involved in match-fixing during 2008. He won costs and damages. On 12 September 2014, the Metropolitan Police announced that they would charge Cairns with perjury stemming from the Modi libel trial. He was acquitted of charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice on 30 November 2015. With the bat, Cairns has been the author of some of New Zealand cricket’s most memorable innings, including his unbeaten 102 to win the final of the 2000 ICC Knockout Trophy for New Zealand against India in Kenya, and his 158 from just 172 balls in a Test against South Africa in 2004. Cairns knocked Shane Warne out of Australia’s bowling attack during a 2000 test in Wellington when he launched several sixes out of the Basin Reserve and onto the adjacent street. Cairns formerly held the world record for most sixes in Tests (87, since surpassed by Adam Gilchrist), and for a time held the New Zealand record for fastest century in ODIs (75 balls, currently owned by Corey Anderson with 36 balls).The New Zealand Herald journalist, Richard Boock said about Cairns: “It’s not a scientific measure of course, but if Cairns’ body had held together long enough for him to have played 100 Tests, his figures extrapolate out to something like 5334 runs and 351 wickets – very similar to those of Botham.” He went on to say “He was, and should be remembered as, one of the game’s best all-rounder.