W
6
W
0
6
0
= 12
Match Details
ENG vs PAK 1st Matchth Matchth-Match, PAK vs ENG 2021
ENG
201-1019.2
Pakistan won by 31 runs
PAK
20.0232-6
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Player of the Match
Shaheen Afridi
Pakistan3/30
ENG - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 64 | 69 | 10 Over | 108 | 120 | 15 Over | 178 | 161 |
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PAK - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 49 | 49 | 10 Over | 82 | 80 | 15 Over | 127 | 155 | 20 Over | 212 | 232 |
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So, that is it from me, Karthik Raj and my co-commentators, Vikhyat and Sourya. Do stay tuned to OneCricket's live coverage of various other cricket matches.
Shaheen Afridi: Our batsmen gave us a good start and laid the platform for our win. We just had to bowl in the right areas. We were targeting the yorkers and keeping the variations going. When I am on the ground, I give my 100%. I kept attacking and tried to be positive.
Shaheen Shah Afridi has been named as the 'Player of the Match' for his figures of 3.2-0-30-3.
Babar Azam: I spoke about not repeating the mistakes. Myself and Rizwan got off to a good start and every batsman chipped in. In T20s, you need to take quick decisions, you gotta enjoy your cricket. We gave 100% in all departments. We took good catches, Shaheen and Hasnain bowled well. Credit to Hasnain for bowling the pressure over (18th). We'll look to build on the momentum and continue playing the way we did.
Eoin Morgan: "When you look at the chase, only one of us got going in Liam Livingstone... it's a hell of a line-up in our changing room but it was Pakistan's day. There were a lot of positives, this ground replicates Sharjah where we might play World Cup games. We play a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge, we know it's high-scoring, but it's good to be under pressure to find out more about the team. Liam, an incredible knock, over the last six years as a group we've watched incredible knocks from Buttler, Roy, Ali, that was as good as any of them. Moeen and Liam will be in the middle order to try and score runs, that opportunity will continue, because it's about establishing guys before World Cup selection."
Time for the Post-match Presentation!
The Lancashire batsman helped England take 25 runs off the next two overs but Shadab Khan came back to dismiss Gregory. Livingstone reached his hundred off the next delivery but Shadab had the last laugh off the third ball by getting rid of the danger-man. David Willey connected his second delivery for a maximum with England requiring 44 runs off 18 balls. Willey tried his best with 16 off 11 balls but he eventually holed out off Haris Rauf's bowling in the penultimate over. In he end, Shaheen Shah Afridi castled Matthew Parkinson to close out the game.
Roy and Liam Livingstone finished the Powerplay well and carried on from there before Shadab Khan removed the English opener with a leg-break. The England skipper Eoin Morgan struggled at one end but Livingstone continued to look in glorious touch. After reaching his fifty off just 17 balls, Livingstone motored on even though the duo of Eoin Morgan and Lewis Gregory couldn't find the fence. He brought the equation down to 81 off 36 balls.
What an entertaining game from a neutral's perspective! Pakistan would be elated to register this convincing game after some disappointing performances in the ODI series. Defending a mammoth 233, Shaheen Shah Afridi gave the best possible start to Pakistan as he removed Dawid Malan in the second over. Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy started to score at a rapid rate before Shaheen bounced out the former in the 4th over. Then, Mohammad Hasnain came into the attack and removed Moeen Ali cheaply with a bouncer of his own.
Sourya: This has been a fine, all-round performance from Pakistan, deserved victory.
19.2 S Afridi to M Parkinson
W This is it. Pakistan gets the first win of the tour!!! Nails the yorker and the ball rattles the sticks of Parkinson and Pakistan win by 31 runs
19.1 S Afridi to M Parkinson
0 Darted in the yorker in the line of the stumps, Parkinson manages to get some willow on it in due time
OVER 19.0
England
201/9
Saqib Mahmood
0(2)
Matthew Parkinson
0(0)
Haris Rauf
1-44(4.0)
18.6 H Rauf to S Mahmood
0 Mahmood was backing away and Rauf followed him with a tailing yorker, Mahmood tries to jam it out but misses it
18.5 H Rauf to S Mahmood
0 Off-pace length ball outside off, Mahmood swings blindly at it and misses it
Sourya: The last nail in England's coffin was Livingstone's wicket, but Willey's dismissal has sealed the deal.
18.4 H Rauf to D Willey
W WICKET!!! And with this, the minuscule hopes of England winning this game goes sinking. Willey slogs this full ball towards the cow corner region but with the presence of Shadab on the ropes, the ball was only going to magnet into his nets
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