KARACHI: Pakistan’s young and energetic cricket team added another featherto its cap with a record 7th five-match series clean sweep by beatingZimbabwe 5-0.

The comprehensive win against Zimbabwe by a margin of 5-0 helped Pakistansurpass its arch-rival India in the list of teams winning most 5-match ODIseries by winning each match of it.

Pakistan’s list of 5-match clean sweeps includes wins against Zimbabwe in2002, Bangladesh in 2003, New Zealand in 2003, Zimbabwe in 2008, Bangladeshin 2008, Sri Lanka in 2017 and Zimbabwe in 2018.

India has six such five-match ODI series win followed by South Africa withfive, West Indies, Australia and Sri Lanka with four 5-match series cleansweep.

Pakistan’s opening pair Fakhar Zaman and Imam ul Haq also achieved a uniquefeat in the series by being the first batting pair to score 600 runs in abilateral series.

The opening duo added 704 runs as batting partners in 5 innings of theseries, which is the most by any batting partner in a bilateral series. Noother pair has scored more than 590 runs when two teams met for a series.

They also scored 4-century partnerships in the series, jointly the most bya batting pair. The other pair to smash 4 century partnerships is also fromPakistan – Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed, against Zimbabwe in 2003.