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In this match being played at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England decided to bowl by winning the first toss. Pakistan’s team came out to bat first. In this match, Pakistan did not have star cricketer Shahid Afridi …Read more
Pakistan defeated England by 5 runs, now on Sunday with India Legends team
Kamran Akmal and Sharjil Khan came to bat on the opening for Pakistan Champions. Pakistan lost the first two wickets at the score of 27 runs. In this match, star player Shoaib Malik was dismissed by a run. But captain Mohammad Hafeez played a rapid innings of 54 runs in 34 balls. In this innings, Hafeez hit 8 fours.
England kept the match completely in their grip by 19 overs of the first innings and at a time it was that Pakistan’s innings could be covered within 150 runs, but in the last over, Sohail Khan and Amer Yameen’s brilliant batting added 22 runs. Sohail Khan hit a six off the first ball of the 20th over. At the same time, on the third and fourth balls, Yameen hit Six and took the team’s score to 160. Before the 20th over, the bowlers of England took 9 wickets of Pakistan. Chris Tremlet and Lium Plunkett took the most wickets for England. Both these bowlers took 2-2 wickets. At the same time, Stuart Mekar, Ryan Sidebottam, James Vince and Dmitry Maskarenhas took 1-1 wickets.
England lost by 5 runs
Chasing the target of 162 runs, England team opener Musatard and Alastair Cook gave 32 runs in 5 overs. Pakistan came back in the match by dismissing Cook and James Vince until 52, although Mustard and then Ian Bell kept England in the match while batting brilliantly. Mustard scored 58 runs off 51 balls, whose wicket was taken by Sohail Tanveer at a very decisive time. Shoaib Malikne bowled very economical in the middle overs, due to which big batsmen like Bell and Morgan could not play openly. The final over needed 15 runs in the final over, but Sohail Khan decided that Bell, who played a half -century and former England captain, could not reach the floor. England remained 5 runs behind and Pakistan started the tournament with victory.
