The 28-year-old smashed a 57-ball 104 in a rearguard motion to boost New Zealand from a precarious 73-4 to chase down a stiff goal of 194 with 4 balls to spare.
“We are very happy with how we leveled the series tonight and finished the job,” stated Chapman. “It took a bit of adjusting in the first two games and it’s great to see that it worked out well.”
Muhammad Rizwan neglected a century by means of two runs, however nonetheless guided Pakistan to a cast 193-5 of their 20 overs.
Chapman led the fightback with a match-turning unbroken 5th wicket stand of 121 off 58 balls with James Neesham, who scored a punishing 25-ball 45 now not out because the duo toyed with Pakistan’s much-vaunted bowling assault.
“I was pretty thankful that Jimmy came out all-guns-blazing and took some pressure off me as well,” Chapman stated.
Chapman, whose earlier very best T20I rating was once 83 in opposition to Scotland at Edinburgh remaining yr, finished his century off 54 balls with a brace off Shaheen Shah Afridi, waving his bat to an applauding dressing room.
In all Chapman hit 11 fours and 4 sixes whilst Neesham’s knock was once studded with two sixes and 4 fours because the pair blended to assist in giving New Zealand their a hundredth T20I win in 192 suits.
Shaheen had given Pakistan a very good get started with the wickets of Tim Latham off the primary ball of the innings and Will Young (4) off the 5th.
Chad Bowes (19) and Daryl Mitchell (15) additionally fell affordably sooner than Chapman took fee, additionally taking advantage of a dropped catch off Shaheen on 67 by means of Shadab Khan at long-on.
Pakistan received the primary T20 by means of 88 runs and the second one by means of 38 whilst New Zealand took the 3rd by means of 4, all in Lahore.
The fourth tournament was once deserted because of a hailstorm in Rawalpindi.
The victory and a 2-2 result’s welcoming for New Zealand who have been lacking their most sensible 8 gamers together with common skipper Kane Williamson because of the continued Indian Premier League.
Pakistani skipper Babar Azam Was disillusioned with the outcome.
“I think we were 10-15 runs short after Rizwan revived the innings for us through the middle phases,” stated Azam. “Congratulations to Chapman, he played a special knock and took the game away from us.”
Pakistan’s innings was once formed round Rizwan’s good knock once they have been despatched into bat by means of New Zealand.
The 30-year-old batter struck a 62-ball unbeaten 98 as he neglected the remaining supply of the innings and with it his 2d T20I hundred.
Rizwan, who hit 4 sixes and 7 fours, added 71 for the fourth wicket with Iftikhar Ahmed (36) and some other 68 for the 5th with Imad Wasim who made 31.
Pakistan raced to 51 within the 6th over when pacer Blair Tickner got rid of Azam for 19 and Mohammad Haris off successive deliveries to derail a just right get started.
Ahmed hit two sixes and 3 obstacles off 22 balls whilst Wasim’s 14-ball knock had 5 obstacles and a six.
For New Zealand Tickner was once the most efficient bowler with 3-33.
(AI photographs)