Pakistan win by 10 wickets by achieving England’s target of 200 runs without any loss. Pakistan achieves target in the third ball of the last over. Thanks to Babar Azam’s brilliant second century of his T20 career and Muhammad Rizwan’s half-century.
England captain Moeen Ali wins the toss of the second match of the series. He decides to bat first.
Alex Hales and Phil Salt provide 42-runs opening for England in first 5 overs.
Shahnawaz Dhani comes to bowl the sixth over. On the very first ball he bowled Hales, who scored a half-century in the previous match.
Alex Hales score 26 runs off 21 balls with the help of 3 fours and a six.
Shahnawaz Dhani did not even allow the new batsman David Malan to open the account. Shahnawaz blew his wickets on the second ball of the sixth over.
Phil Salt and Ben Duquette put on a third wicket partnership of 53 off 37 balls. Consequently to take the team’s score to 95 in the 12th over.
Haris Rauf picked up his maiden wicket of Phil Salt and third win for Pakistan.
England’s score reaches 103 runs in 13 overs, then Mohammad Nawaz aggressively blew the wickets of Ben Duquette. Who made 43 runs off 22 balls.
Moeen Ali and Harry Brooks score 59 runs off 27 balls with pace and left the Pakistani bowlers helpless.
In the 17th over of the innings, Haris Rauf bowled Brooks. Who scored 31 runs with the help of a four and three sixes off 19 balls.
The Pakistani bowlers bowled the first five batsmen. While Khushal Shah dropped an easy catch of Moeen Ali on the fourth ball of the 18th over.
Curran come to support Moeen Ali for the sixth wicket. He scored 10 runs without getting out, making the partnership 39 runs.
Moeen Ali scored 55 runs off 23 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes.
England scored 199 runs for 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
On behalf of Pakistan, Haris Rauf and Shahnawaz Dhani got 2, 2 wickets by giving 30 and 37 runs respectively. Muhammad Nawaz got one wicket.
Mohammad Hasnain, who played his first match in the series, proved to be the most expensive bowler. He conceded 51 runs without a wicket in his quota of 4 overs.
Chasing a tough target, Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam started aggressively and completed the team’s half-century in the sixth overs.
From the second end, Babar Azam completes his 8000 runs in T20 cricket. Which is the fastest run after West Indies’ famous batsman Chris Gayle.
Mohammad Rizwan completed his half century in 30 balls.
Captain Babar Azam regains his form and scored a half-century off 39 balls and put Pakistan in the best position.
Babar Azam bats more aggressively as he completed his half-century and scored his second T20 career century. He hits 9 fours and 5 sixes off 62 balls.
Babar Azam makes the record of scoring the most 9 centuries as the captain of Pakistan in all formats.
Hence, Pakistan scores 203 runs on the third ball of the last over. Thanks to the brilliant innings of 110 and 88 runs by captain Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan. That without getting out and they achieve the difficult target.
England’s bowlers looked completely helpless against Pakistan’s openers.
Babar Azam was adjudged the man of the match for playing a glorious innings.
Earlier, after winning the toss, Moeen Ali says that the wicket is not looking fresh. We include three spinners in the team.
He says that Dawson is made a part of the team in place of Gleeson.
Babar Azam says that we play well in the first 10 overs in the first T20. The middle order needs to perform better. We make one change in the team. Mohammad Hasnain replaces Naseem Shah.
Both teams for the match consist of these players:
England: Moeen Ali (captain), Phil Salt, Alex Hales, David Mullan, Ben Duquette, Harry Brooks, Sam Curran, David Valley, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan (wicket keeper), Hyder Ali, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Usman Qadir, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Shahnawaz Dhani.