England successfully defended 209 runs against Pakistan in the last T20I. England win by 67 runs and win the series by 4-3 as well. Thanks to the brilliant batting of David Mullan and Harry Brooks and the excellent bowling of Chris Woakes.
Babar Azam win the toss of the last T20 of the series at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore. He invites England to bat first.
England opener Alex Hales is the first batsman to be dismiss, scoring 39 runs in the opening partnership followed by 18 runs with 3 fours.
Phil Salt dismisses for 20 runs off 12 balls, but he run out by Shadab Khan.
Ben Duquette bats well and combine with David Mullan to take the score to 101 runs. Mohammad Rizwan gets Pakistan a wicket through a run-out.
Ben Duckett scores 30 runs off 19 balls with 3 fours and a six. David Mullan and Harry Brooks put on a brilliant partnership of 108 runs. Mullan also completes a half-century.
England scores 209 runs for 3 wickets in the 20 overs. Mohammad Hasnain takes the only wicket for Pakistan. Pakistan starts the target in a disappointing manner. Captain Babar Azam gives his wicket to Chris Woakes in the first over.
Babar Azam also hit a four before getting out and could not add to the individual score further.
In the second over, Topli Kay takes the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan. Who scores only one run. Iftikhar Ahmad and Shaan Masood push the score forward but the experienced batsmen fail to get the team out of trouble. Despite getting an easy chance he dismisses for 19 runs.
When Pakistan’s third wicket falls, the score was 33 runs. Khushdil Shah and Shan Masood take the score to 86 runs but Khushdil lost his wicket on the ball of Adil Rashid.
Khushdal Shah scores 27 runs off 25 balls with the help of one four and one six. Asif Ali gets another chance to play a big innings but fail. He dismisses by Chris Woakes for just 7 runs.
Shan Masood completes his half-century in 38 balls but can not help the team.
Muhammad Nawaz dismisses for 125 and score 9 runs.
Shan Masood top-scorer with 56 and dismisses after a good catch by Adil Rashid off Chris Woakes. David Valley come in to bowl the last over for England. He takes the wicket of Mohammad Wasim on the very first ball. That was Pakistan’s eighth wicket.
Pakistan scores 142 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 67 runs.
England’s Chris Woakes dismissed 3 players, David Valley got two wickets.
England’s David Malan was named Man of the Match, Harry Brooks was named Man of the Series. Babar Azam said after winning the toss that we were waiting for this series and want to win the series.
He said playing in front of his home crowd is an exciting moment.
Moeen Ali said that if we had won the toss, we would have fielded first, but England will try to bat well.
Regarding the changes in the team, he said that Chris Woakes has been included in place of Gleeson while Wood has been rested for today’s match in view of the series against Australia.