England recorded a dizzying 63-run victory in the T20 match against Pakistan on Friday night. In this match held in Karachi, the English team first scored a huge score of 221 runs and then held off the Pakistani batsmen by only 158 runs. With this win, England took a 2-1 lead in the seven-match T20I series.
By batting first in this match, England lost first wicket early. Phil Salt (8) became a victim of Mohammad Hasnain. However, this did not affect England’s execution rate. After this, David Malan (14) and Will Jacques (40) were sent to the pavilion by Usman Qadir. From here, Harry Brooke scored 81 runs on 35 balls and Ben Duquet scored 70 runs on 42 balls. The two shared an undefeated partnership of 139 runs on 69 balls for the fourth wicket. Thanks to this association, England scored 221 runs for the loss of three wickets in the allotted time.
Chasing the huge goal of 222 runs, the Pakistani team got off to a very poor start. In the total of 28 races, the Pakistan team had lost all four of its first-order wickets. Mohammad Rizwan (8), Babar Azam (8), Haider Ali (3) and Iftikhar Ahmed (6) couldn’t even touch the double mark. Shan Masood gave some competition as he played a 65-run inning on 40 balls, but it was insufficient. In the stipulated overs, the Pakistan team was able to score only 158 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. In this way, the Pakistani team got a big loss by 63 runs. In this match for England, Mark Wood took 3 and Adil Rashid took 2 wickets.
