<p>Babar Azam scored an elegant 77 and Ifthikar Ahmed took a maiden five-wicket haul to set up Pakistan's six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second one-day international here on Sunday.</p>.<p>The victory gave Pakistan the three-match series and it was also their eighth consecutive ODI win since last year.</p>.<p>Pakistan are playing their first ODI matches since October 2019 when they beat Sri Lanka at home.</p>.<p>Ifthikar returned amazing figures of 5 for 40 and after Pakistan faltered a bit in their chase of 207, skipper Babar came to the fore to achieve the target in 35.2 overs.</p>.<p>Except for a fighting 75 from 70 balls by Sean Williams and 36 from Brendon Taylor, none of the visiting batsmen were able to make an impact.</p>.<p>Opener Chari hit 25 but Zimbabwe kept on losing wickets regularly.</p>.<p>After left-arm spinner Imad Wasim went for 28 runs in two overs, Babar decided to bring on Ifthikar and he ended up with dream figures.</p>.<p>Zimbabwe faced just 45.1 overs.</p>.<p>After a steady opening stand of 68 by Abid Ali (22) and Imam ul Haq, Pakistan stuttered a bit in the run chase, losing four wickets before Babar took his side home.</p>.<p>Debutant Haider Ali got a brisk 29 from 24 balls.</p>.<p>Zimbabwe's new-ball bowlers -- Richard Ngarava, Carl Mumba and Blessing Muzarabani -- were unable to trouble the batsmen on a good batting track.</p>
<p>Babar Azam scored an elegant 77 and Ifthikar Ahmed took a maiden five-wicket haul to set up Pakistan's six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second one-day international here on Sunday.</p>.<p>The victory gave Pakistan the three-match series and it was also their eighth consecutive ODI win since last year.</p>.<p>Pakistan are playing their first ODI matches since October 2019 when they beat Sri Lanka at home.</p>.<p>Ifthikar returned amazing figures of 5 for 40 and after Pakistan faltered a bit in their chase of 207, skipper Babar came to the fore to achieve the target in 35.2 overs.</p>.<p>Except for a fighting 75 from 70 balls by Sean Williams and 36 from Brendon Taylor, none of the visiting batsmen were able to make an impact.</p>.<p>Opener Chari hit 25 but Zimbabwe kept on losing wickets regularly.</p>.<p>After left-arm spinner Imad Wasim went for 28 runs in two overs, Babar decided to bring on Ifthikar and he ended up with dream figures.</p>.<p>Zimbabwe faced just 45.1 overs.</p>.<p>After a steady opening stand of 68 by Abid Ali (22) and Imam ul Haq, Pakistan stuttered a bit in the run chase, losing four wickets before Babar took his side home.</p>.<p>Debutant Haider Ali got a brisk 29 from 24 balls.</p>.<p>Zimbabwe's new-ball bowlers -- Richard Ngarava, Carl Mumba and Blessing Muzarabani -- were unable to trouble the batsmen on a good batting track.</p>