The visitor team Pakistan, surprised the home team England in the first match of the shortest format of cricket. The Pakistan team lost all three ODI’s against England even in the third ODI with 331 runs on the board. In which the captain of the Pakistan team Babar Azam scored 158 runs off 139 deliveries.
In the first T20I, Pakistan posted their highest ever T20I score 232 with six down. The keeper and the opener of the team Mohammad Rizwan faced 41 balls and scored 63 runs. He completed his beautiful innings by smashing eight boundaries and a maximum. The captain of the team Babar Azam scored 85 runs off 49 balls. He smashed eight 4s and three 6s. Liam Livingstone scored 103 off 43 deliveries but still, England was 31 runs short of the victory.
ENG vs PAK 2nd T20I Highlights today Sunday, 7-17-2021 – 2nd T20I, Pakistan tour of England from Headingley, Leeds.
Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl first.
England team: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Tom Curran 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Saqib Mahmood, 11 Matt Parkinson.
Pakistan team: 1 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 2 Babar Azam (capt), 3 Fakhar Zaman, 4 Sohaib Maqsood, 5 Mohammad Hafeez, 6 Azam Khan, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Imad Wasim, 9 Haris Rauf, 10 Mohammad Hasnain, 11 Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Match Timings: 13:30 GMT | 14:30 Local | 18:30 PKT
Umpires – Alex Wharf, Martin Saggers
TV Umpires – David Millns
Match Referee – Wayne Noon
Reserve Umpire – Steve O’Shaughnessy
Match number – T20I no. 1193
This has become a familiar feature of Pakistan cricket. Just win once in blue-moon & lose rest of games. Most reckless display of batting ever seen. Looks like they are all in rush going nowhere.