Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
20 | 19 Runs | ENG: 199/5 | RR: 9.95

  • Moeen Ali55 (23b)
  • Sam Curran10 (8b)
  • Mohammad Hasnain4-0-51-0
  • Haris Rauf4-0-30-2

9.09pm Well gosh. A change of approach from England, deciding to take first use of the surface and making brilliant use of it. Moeen with his lusty leg-side smoting, and Duckett with all sorts of cheeky improvisation were the mainstays, with useful hands from Hales, Salt, Brook and Curran too.

Here's Ben Duckett: "It's about match-ups, their left-arm spinner and legspinner were mine. We were thinking 160 was par. A lot of time you hit fielders, I didn't face much seam but it seems like it's keeping low. The lads in the Powerplay said it was tough. The main thing here is wickets throughout the innings."

Sameer: "Shocking ! This Pakistan team management, coach, selectors and captain contingent are mindbogglingly stubborn. The team keeps losing abjectly, and they refuse to identify and make the changes needed to get results. 200 on this pitch is NOT achievable. What are they thinking keeping the likes of Khushdil, Iftikhar, etc. on?" I guess we shall find out!

19.6
6
Mohammad Hasnain to Ali, SIX, flat-batted into the stands again! Moeen marches to a 23-ball fifty, and Pakistan will need an even 200 for victory!
19.5
6
Mohammad Hasnain to Ali, SIX, blockhole ball and battered! A long-levered swing through the line, 101 metres into the stands!
19.4
1
Mohammad Hasnain to Curran, 1 run, back and across, worked to the on-side for another single
19.3
0
Mohammad Hasnain to Curran, no run, nearly bowled No.6! Curran steps across again, attempted whack over the leg side, misses as the ball zings past off stump
19.2
1
Mohammad Hasnain to Ali, 1 run, Free Hit. Moeen opens the face on the back foot, glides to deep point but can't beat the sweeper
19.2
3nb
Mohammad Hasnain to Ali, (no ball) 2 runs, yanked into the leg-side, can't connect properly... and it's an over-step. Oops
19.1
2
Mohammad Hasnain to Ali, 2 runs, lumped down the ground, a swing through the line, and through the umpire too. A long chase inside the rope

END OF OVER:
19 | 8 Runs | ENG: 180/5 | RR: 9.47

  • Sam Curran9 (6b)
  • Moeen Ali38 (18b)
  • Haris Rauf4-0-30-2
  • Shahnawaz Dahani4-0-37-2
18.6
2
Haris Rauf to Curran, 2 runs, opens the face on the back foot, pressed down to deep third

Matt Roller, our eyes in the sky, has his: "Not sure if it was picked up on TV but Dahani was so sure Khushdil would take that catch he set off on his usual celebration, thumping his chest and all" Whoops

18.5
0
Haris Rauf to Curran, no run, cramped for room on the back foot, can't get this one away
18.4
1
Haris Rauf to Ali, 1 run, on the back foot, chopped into the covers
18.3
0
Haris Rauf to Ali, no run, shapes to leg, beaten by a wider line outside off
18.2
1
Haris Rauf to Curran, 1 run, on the back foot, poked to the off side
18.1
4
Haris Rauf to Curran, FOUR, Curran's turn to invert himself into the ramp over fine leg! Yorker length, and picked out like a grape seed from your teeth

END OF OVER:
18 | 12 Runs | ENG: 172/5 | RR: 9.55

  • Moeen Ali37 (16b)
  • Sam Curran2 (2b)
  • Shahnawaz Dahani4-0-37-2
  • Haris Rauf3-0-22-2

To clarify, everyone was asking about A few people asking what is the record for bowleds in a T20I innings... Go on, hazard a guess... bowleds in an innings. No-one has been asking about sixes...

17.6
4
Shahnawaz Dahani to Ali, FOUR, another four through fine leg! Poor ball, back of a length, leg-sided, there's a man at short backward square but it's past him before he can move
17.5
1
Shahnawaz Dahani to Curran, 1 run, nudges the single to make it two from two
17.4
1
Shahnawaz Dahani to Ali, 1 run, dropped at deep midwicket! That is an absolute horror-show. One of the easiest chances imaginable, arriving at waist-height, into Khushdil's hard hands and out again
17.3
4
Shahnawaz Dahani to Ali, FOUR, swatted across the line, and more unimpressive fielding allows another four to rumble through to the rope, through deep midwicket
17.2
1
Shahnawaz Dahani to Curran, 1 run, on the back foot, and tapped to the off side
17.1
1
Shahnawaz Dahani to Ali, 1 run, blotted into the off side

END OF OVER:
17 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | ENG: 160/5 | RR: 9.41

  • Moeen Ali27 (12b)
  • Haris Rauf3-0-22-2
  • Mohammad Hasnain3-0-32-0
16.6
W
Haris Rauf to Brook, OUT, five bowleds out of five! One improvisation too many from Brook, who kneels in an attempted ramp, but fails to pick the slower ball. The ball hops obediently into the middle of middle stump, and so ends another sparkly innings

HC Brook b Haris Rauf 31 (29m 19b 1x4 3x6) SR: 163.15

16.5
1
Haris Rauf to Ali, 1 run, Moeen shimmies to leg, then strides to the off-side to press a push into the covers
16.4
1
Haris Rauf to Brook, 1 run, tickled off the pads once more, a finer connection could have been another boundary, but backward square tidies up
16.3
6
Haris Rauf to Brook, SIX, bouncer, but that's swatted away like a wasp from a cream tea. Down the leg side, too short on that line, and Brook is into position early to loft it round the corner

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