BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe – Pakistan completed a series whitewash over Zimbabwewith a 131-run win on Sunday in the fifth and final match at Queens SportsClub in Bulawayo.

On another record-setting day for the visitors, Fakhar Zaman became thefastest player in history to reach 1,000 career runs in one-dayinternational cricket as Pakistan amassed 364 for 4.

Zaman broke the previous record of 21 innings by reaching the mark in his17th innings in the course of a fluent half century. His opening partnerImam-ul-Haq was also in the runs once again, the pair adding their fourthcentury stand of the series.

They took the score to 168 in the 25th over before Zaman was caught behindfor 85.

While he missed out on what would have been his third hundred of theseries, Zaman did also claim the records for most runs in a five-matchbilateral series with 515 and most runs scored between dismissals in ODIs,having scored 455 runs since he was last dismissed in the first match ofthe series.

On a morning for batsmen, Imam-ul-Haq went on to reach his third century ofthe series, and though Shoaib Malik and Asif Ali fell cheaply, the carnagecontinued with Babar Azam then racing to a century of his own from 72deliveries, his second fifty haven taken just 17 balls.

In response, Zimbabwe showed much more stickability with the bat than hadbeen the case in the first four games of the series.

Hamilton Masakadza and Tinashe Kamunhukamwe got going with a 66-run openingstand, Zimbabwe’s best of the series, and though Zimbabwe never looked likethreatening Pakistan’s total, the middle order did at least hold firm.

Prince Masvaure made 39 and Ryan Murray contributed 47 – personal bests forboth players in their short careers – and Peter Moor finished off with 44not out in a 67-run stand with Elton Chigumbura, allowing Zimbabwe to reach233 for 4. – APP/AFP