Thanks to Phil Salt’s aggressive 87 runs, England achieve the target of 170 runs against Pakistan at the loss of 2 wickets on the third ball of the 15th over. England beat Pakistan by 8 wickets and level the series at 3-3.
In the important T20 match at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, England captain Moeen Ali wins the toss and invite Babar Azam to bat first.
When Pakistan starts batting, wicket keeper Mohammad Haris, who played his first match with captain Babar Azam, come into the field and hit a six.
Mohammad Haris fail to bat confidently and dismiss by Gleeson in the third over. At that time Pakistan scores 14 runs with slow batting.
Shaun Masood also can not stay on the wicket for long. He dismiss by David Valli without opening his account.
Hyder Ali was the third batsman to get out. He scores 18 runs off 14 balls with the help of a four and a six.
Captain Babar Azam and Iftikhar Ahmed put on a good partnership for the fourth wicket. Babar completes his half-century.
Iftikhar Ahmed scores 31 runs off 21 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Asif Ali fail once again. He scores 9 runs with a boundary after facing 9 balls. He becomes the wicket of David Valley.
Mohammad Nawaz finally come to bat and scores 12 runs in 7 balls with the help of a brilliant six.
Captain Babar Azam plays an innings of 87 not out, which includes 7 fours and 3 sixes. He faces 59 balls.
During this time, Babar Azam completes his 3000 runs in T20 cricket. He also equal the record of completing 3000 runs in the fastest time.
David Valley takes the most 2 wickets for England. In pursuit of the target, England’s openers put on an aggressive batting partnership of 55 runs.
Alex Hales dismiss for 27 off 12 balls in the fourth over. To support Phil Salt, David Mullan come in to bat at number two. He scores 26 runs off 18 balls with the help of 5 fours and dismiss by Shadab Khan.
When the England’s second wicket fell, the score reaches 128 runs.
Phil Salt bats aggressively in partnership with Ben Duquette and scores 170 runs off the third ball of the 15th over to give the team an 8-wicket win.
Opener Phil Salt scores an unbeaten 87 off 41 balls with 13 fours and 3 sixes.
Ben Duquette scores 26 runs off 16 balls with the help of 4 fours to lead his team to victory.
Earlier Moeen Ali speaking after winning the toss that the conditions are not always that difficult. You have to deal with the situation.
He says that we will play well today but the wicket is little difficult in the last match. We should have win the match by getting the target.
The England captain says two changes are make to the team, with Mark Wood and Chris Woakes rested and Richard Gleeson and Reece Topley replacing them.
Babar Azam says that if there was success in the toss then I would have fielded first because there is dew, but I will try to give a target of 160 to 170.
He says that two changes make for the match, Muhammad Rizwan and Haris Rauf have sat out and added Muhammad Haris and Shahnawaz Dhani.