Hales, Brook drive England to victory after bowlers’ brilliance

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KARACHI: England’s veteran batter Alex Hales and Harry Brook shone in the run chase after the bowlers displayed combined effort to halt Pakistan to a small total as England sealed the series opener by six wickets.

ENG 160-4 (19.2 Overs)

Dahani to bowl the final over. Can he defend three runs?

ENG 156-4 (19 Overs)

Haris comes to bowl his last

ENG 149-4 (18 Overs)

Naseem comes to bowl his last

ENG 143-4 (17 Overs)

16.4: Had a swipe but ended up skying it to mid-off, where Babar completes a running catch.

Haris comes back into the attack

ENG 136-3 (16 Overs)

Naseem comes back

ENG 122-3 (15 Overs)

Dahani comes back into the attack

ENG 107-3 (14 Overs)

Nawaz comes to bowl his last

ENG 102-3 (13 Overs)

Usman comes to bowl his last

ENG 92-3 (12 Overs)

Nawaz comes back

ENG 87-3 (11 Overs)

10.5: Clattered into the pads fairly adjacent and it’s given out. England review. Three reds, it’s hitting middle and leg, and Duckett falls

Usman comes again

ENG 80-2 (10 Overs)

Haris comes again

ENG 73-2 (9 Overs)

Usman continues

ENG 63-2 (8 Overs)

Naseem comes back

ENG 56-2 (7 Overs)

6.2: Gets this one to land and that does him a world of good, just enough purchase on the legbreak and Malan sends it back to the bowler via the inside edge of the bat. Smartly taken going to his left.

Usman Qadir comes into the attack

ENG 47-1 (6 Overs)

Haris Rauf comes into the attack

ENG 43-1 (5 Overs)

Dahani continues

ENG 33-1 (4 Overs)

Nawaz continues

ENG 24-1 (3 Overs)

2.3: Haider Ali leaps to take the catch, dances along the rope, and comes up trumps! Looked like a cutter from Dahani, making it harder for Salt to get power on the shot, and it didn’t quite have the legs.

Dahani replaces Naseem

ENG 15-0 (2 Overs)

Mohammad Nawaz to bowl from the other end

ENG 14-0 (1 Over)

Phil Salt and Alex Hales come out to bat for England. Naseem Shah to bowl the first over.

PAKISTAN vs ENGLAND (2nd INNING)

KARACHI: England bowlers displayed combined effort to hold their nerves calm and restrict Pakistan to 158/7 in 20 overs despite top-ranked T20I batter Mohammad Rizwan’s brilliant half-century as the middle-order failed again.

PAK 158-7 (20 Overs)

Wood to bowl the final over

PAK 150-5 (19 Overs)

Curran comes to bowl his last

PAK 141-5 (18 Overs)

Wood comes back

PAK 137-4 (17 Overs)

Willey comes back

PAK 125-4 (16 Overs)

15.1:  He brought out the reverse sweep to clear fine leg, but never quite looked comfortable in the shot, and top edges it to the short fine fielder.

Adil comes to bowl his last

PAK 120-3 (15 Overs)

Moeen replaces Willey

PAK 110-2 (14 Overs)

13.3: It was full, and Haider looked to jab rather than hit through it, and got more height than distance, allowing deep midwicket a simple catch.

Curran comes back

PAK 107-1 (13 Overs)

Willey replaces Gleeson

PAK 104-1 (12 Overs)

Adil comes to bowl his third

PAK 93-1 (11 Overs)

Gleeson comes back

PAK 87-1 (10 Overs)

9.3: Flighted wrong’un, gets him coming forwards but he plays all around it. The ball clatters into the middle and off, and England finally break the opening stand.

Adil continues

PAK 83-0 (9 Overs)

Moeen Ali comes to bowl his first

PAK 70-0 (8 Overs)

Adil Rashid comes into the attack

PAK 63-0 (7 Overs)

Curran comes back into the attack

PAK 51-0 (6 Overs)

Wood continues

PAK 43-0 (5 Overs)

Richard Gleeson replaces Willey

PAK 36-0 (4 Overs)

Luke Wood comes into the attack

PAK 32-0 (3 Overs)

Willey continues

PAK 15-0 (2 Overs)

Sam Curran to bowl from the other end

PAK 9-0 (1 Over)

Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan come out to bat for Pakistan. David Willey to bowl the first over.

PAKISTAN vs ENGLAND (1st INNING)

KARACHI: England won the toss and elected to field first against Pakistan in the first match of the historic T20I series.

PLAYING XI

Pakistan: Babar Azam Mohammad Rizwan Haider Ali Shan Masood Iftikhar Ahmed Khushdil Shah Mohammad Nawaz Usman Qadir Haris Rauf Naseem Shah Shahnawaz Dahani

England: Moeen Ali (c), Phil Salt (wk), Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood, Richard Gleeson

HEAD TO HEAD

Matches-21, England-14, Pakistan-6, No Result-1