Pakistan England Cricket Series 2021

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England ‘C team’ thrash Pakistan in first ODI

CARDIFF: Saqib Mahmood marked his return to England duty with a four-wicket haul as the completely changed hosts put their COVID-19 problems behind them with an emphatic nine-wicket win over Pakistan in the first One-Day International at Cardiff on Thursday.

Player of the match Mahmood took an ODI best 4-42 as Pakistan were skittled out for just 141 with more than 14 overs left to bat. England, the reigning 50-over world champions, finished on 142-1 to go 1-0 up in a three-match series ahead of Saturday’s clash at Lord’s.

Dawid Malan was 68 not out after a run-ball fifty. Together with Test batsman Zak Crawley (58 not out), one of five ODI debutants in the England team, he shared an unbroken stand of 120 as a match scheduled for 100 overs finished in a mere 67.1 overs.

England were fielding a completely changed XI from their previous ODI -- the first time this had happened to any side in the 50-year history of the format -- after a COVID-19 outbreak within their existing squad during a recent 2-0 series win at home to Sri Lanka required all 16 players originally selected to play against Pakistan to self-isolate.

In addition, injuries to the likes of fast bowlers Jofra Archer and Olly Stone and wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler meant they were effectively without two first-choice XIs.

Yet their ‘C team’ dominated from the moment Mahmood took a wicket with the first ball of the match -- and then dismissed Pakistan captain Babar Azam, the world’s top-ranked ODI batsman, for a duck with the third ball.

Such was England’s command, stand-in captain Ben Stokes bowled just one over despite the World Cup-winner being the most experienced member of the attack. England made a sensational start when Mahmood snared Imamul Haq lbw with the first ball after a review ordered by Stokes confirmed the delivery had pitched in line.

Two balls later, Mahmood had a prize wicket when Babar edged to Crawley at second slip, with Pakistan yet to score a run. And when Mahmood had Pakistan debutant Saud Shakeel lbw for five, the tourists were 26-4 from seven overs.

But Fakhar Zaman counter-attacked to the delight of Pakistan fans in a crowd limited to 2,251 by Welsh government virus restrictions. The left-handed opener hit several fine boundaries, including a superb straight drive off debutant fast bowler Brydon Carse.

New batsman Sohaib Maqsood, in his first ODI for five years, flat-batted Carse over extra-cover for six. But a promising stand of 53 ended in farcical fashion when non-striker Sohaib, lured down the pitch by the advancing Fakhar’s call for a single, was undone when his partner suddenly stopped, with James Vince running him out for 19. Pakistan, restricted to intra-squad rather than tour matches, badly needed the in-touch Fakhar to keep going.

However, his innings of 47, including six fours, ended tamely when a miscued cut off leg-spinner Matt Parkinson lobbed gently to backward point. And when Mahmood had Faheem Ashraf caught behind, Pakistan were 101-7.

England debutant opener Phil Salt -- born in Wales but now with Sussex -- fell cheaply when he edged Shaheen Shah Afridi to first slip. But Malan made a run-a-ball fifty, with Crawley -- following a run of low scores at Test level -- even quicker to the landmark. Brief scores: Pakistan 141, 35.2 overs (S Mahmood 4-42, Fakhar Zaman 47). England 142-1, 21.5 overs (D Malan 68no, Z Crawley 58no). Result: England won by nine wickets.

England ‘C team’ thrash Pakistan in first ODI

CARDIFF: Saqib Mahmood marked his return to England duty with a four-wicket haul as the completely changed hosts put their COVID-19 problems behind them with an emphatic nine-wicket win over...

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Pakistan win toss, bowl against England in 2nd ODI

AFP
July 10, 2021

Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to field in the second one-day international (ODI) against England at Lord's on Saturday.

Rain delayed the scheduled 11:00am (1000 GMT) start by 90 minutes, with the match reduced to 47 overs per side from the standard 50.

England stand-in captain Ben Stokes was winning his 100th ODI cap in the first match at this level at Lord's since he starred in a dramatic 2019 World Cup final win against New Zealand decided by a Super Over.

Both teams were unchanged following England's nine-wicket win in the first of a three-match series at Cardiff on Thursday.

“The different and overcast conditions mean we want to bowl first, and we want to utilise them,” Azam told BBC Radio's Test Match Special at the toss.

“We've spoken about Cardiff, and we want the players to play with freedom, be fearless and go and express yourself.”

Stokes said he had urged his inexperienced side to carry on from where they had left off in Cardiff.

“I've told them to do the same things as the first match. We didn't really get tested last time out and that usually doesn't happen in cricket.

“We would've bowled first too, there are lovely conditions to bowl here and we've been successful doing it, but this is a good opportunity to see the boys put a score on the board.”

As for winning his 100th ODI cap, the all-rounder added: “It comes the more you play but today is a bigger opportunity than for me as an individual. But it's nice to get 100 caps.”

England, the reigning 50-over world champions, had to select a completely new squad days before the start of this series after a Covid-19 outbreak among their original party.

Yet a totally changed XI, captained by the fit-again Stokes and featuring five debutants, thrashed Pakistan at Cardiff's Sophia Gardens.

Saturday's match at the home of cricket was the first in England to operate at full capacity since the pandemic.

Teams

England: Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Zak Crawley, James Vince, Ben Stokes (capt), John Simpson (wkt), Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Brydon Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson

Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wkt), Saud Shakeel, Sohaib Maqsood, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf

 

[ghazi52]

DRINKS

2nd ODI, Lord's, Jul 10 2021, Pakistan tour of England

England
247

Pakistan
(13.5/47 ov, target 248)53/4

Pakistan need 195 runs from 33.1 overs. RRR: 5.87

Current RR
3.83

Required RR
5.87

Last 5 overs (RR)
17/1 (3.40)

 

[Pak-Canuck]

Really should have closed England out under 200, terrible lackluster death bowling. No excuses for today's loss

 

[Aryeih Leib]

Call Zimbabwe

 

[ghazi52]

RESULT

2nd ODI, Lord's, Jul 10 2021, Pakistan tour of England

England
247

Pakistan
(41/47 overs, target 248)195


England won by 52 runs

 

[Super Falcon]

We had idiot minded coaches we cannot win consistantly

 

[Pak-Canuck]

Call Zimbabwe

The team that has beaten India 10 times in ODI's and Pakistan 6 times? Meh we already just played them

 

[ghazi52]

Babar Azam stars with 158 against England in 3rd ODI


AFP
July 13, 2021

Babar Azam celebrates reaching his century during the third ODI match between England and Pakistan at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham on July 13. — AFP

England's John Simpson reacts as Pakistan's Imamul Haq is bowled by England's Matt Parkinson during the 3rd ODI at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, Britain. — Reuters

Pakistan captain Babar Azam returned to form with a brilliant 158, his highest one-day international score, as the tourists tried to deny England a series sweep at Edgbaston on Tuesday.

Azam's 14th century in 83 matches at this level was the centrepiece of Pakistan's 331-9 after they lost the toss.

Together with Mohammad Rizwan (74) he shared a stand of 179 — Pakistan's highest for any wicket in an ODI against England — after adding with opener Imamul Haq (56).

Azam's innings was also the highest individual score in a 50-over ODI at Edgbaston with New Zealand's Glenn Turner scoring 171 in a 60-over World Cup match against East Africa in 1975 and England's Robin Smith making 167 against Australia in a 55-over match in 1993.


Fast bowler Brydon Carse dismissed both Azam and Rizwan before collecting some late wickets as Pakistan hit out for a return of 5-61.

Azam, the world's top-ranked ODI batsman, had been dismissed for nought and 19 by fast bowler Saqib Mahmood as England — who had to change their entire squad for this three-match campaign following a Covid-19 outbreak within their camp — went 2-0 up with commanding nine-wicket and 52-run wins at Cardiff and Lord's, respectively.

Pakistan were in the runs from the first ball, with Imam clipping Mahmood off his pads for four, after managing just one run in total in the first two games.

Mahmood, however, had Pakistan's other left-handed opener, Fakhar Zaman, well caught above his head by a leaping Zak Crawley at second slip for just six.

Azam spent 14 balls on nought and went to fifty in a relatively sedate 72 balls.

But so long as he stayed in there was every chance he would increase his scoring rate and so it proved with a cut boundary off Mahmood taking him to a hundred in just 104 balls including nine fours and two sixes.

And having gone past his previous highest ODI score of 125 not out, against the West Indies at Providence in 2017, he was dropped on 126 before going to 150 in 134 balls.
Not only did the 26-year-old Azam punish the loose ball, he also drove Carse through the covers for a rasping boundary.

Stokes, the most experienced member of the side, eventually brought himself on to bowl in ther 20th over only to be pulled for four by Azam to the delight of a large Pakistan contingent in the crowd.

Imam was bowled by a superb delivery from leg-spinner Matt Parkinson that pitched outside the left-hander's off stump and then turned sharply to bowl him between bat and pad.

Rizwan's fifty, off just 42 balls, however, gave Pakistan valuable impetus.

Azam was dropped on 126 when Carse failed to hold what would have been an excellent catch at midwicket following a powerful pull off Parkinson.

Azam cashed in, driving Carse over long-on for a majestic six.

Rizwan was caught behind down the legside off Carse before Azam holed out in the last over.



Teams

England: Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Zak Crawley, James Vince, Ben Stokes (capt), John Simpson (wkt), Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Brydon Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson


Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imamul Haq, Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wkt), Saud Shakeel, Sohaib Maqsood, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf
Umpires: David Millns (ENG), Richard Illingworth (ENG); TV umpire: Richard Kettleborough (ENG); Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)
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RESULT


3rd ODI (D/N), Birmingham, Jul 13 2021, Pakistan tour of England

Pakistan
331/9

England
(48/50 ov)332/7


England won by 3 wickets (with 12 balls remaining)

 

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Vince hits maiden ODI ton as England sweep Pakistan series

BIRMINGHAM: James Vince hit a maiden one-day international century and Lewis Gregory made 77 as England beat Pakistan by three wickets at Edgbaston on Tuesday to complete a 3-0 series clean sweep.

Set a challenging 332 to win, England, who without most of their first-choice players because of a pre-series Covid outbreak within their camp, were faltering at 165-5. But a stand of 129 between Vince, who made 102, and Gregory turned the tide. England won with two overs to spare when Brydon Carse, who had earlier taken five wickets, drove Shaheen Shah Afridi for four.

Pakistan captain Babar Azam top-scored with an ODI best 158 during the tourists´ 331-9. Together with Mohammad Rizwan (74) he shared a third-wicket stand of 179 -- the highest for any Pakistan wicket against England in an ODI. But from 292-2, Pakistan lost seven wickets for 37 runs. Fast bowler Carse checked Pakistan´s progress with 5-61, his maiden five-wicket haul at this level.

Vince hits maiden ODI ton as England sweep Pakistan series

BIRMINGHAM: James Vince hit a maiden one-day international century and Lewis Gregory made 77 as England beat Pakistan by three wickets at Edgbaston on Tuesday to complete a 3-0 series clean...

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[Pak-Canuck]

Honestly it was the crap fielding that did the loss today, think there were 3 absolute sitters / regulation catches that pak dropped. I mean yeah some of the bowling got spanked rightfully but all the chances were created. Serious lack of discipline

 

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Pak vs Eng: Pakistan thrash England by 31 runs in 1st T20


AFP
July 17, 2021

BIRMINGHAM: Babar Azam led from the front as Pakistan beat England by 31 runs in the first Twenty20 international at Trent Bridge on Friday despite a blistering hundred from Liam Livingstone.

Pakistan captain Azam made 85 and shared an opening stand of 150 with Mohammad Rizwan in a national record T20 total of 232-6.

But Livingstone gave the hosts hope with a 42-ball century, England´s quickest in a T20 international and the fifth fastest of all-time, hitting six fours and nine sixes on his way to three figures.

Yet it wasn´t enough to prevent Pakistan going 1-0 up in this three-match series, with England bowled out for 201 after Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shadab Khan took three wickets apiece.

This was Pakistan´s first victory of their 2021 tour following a 3-0 reverse in a one-day international series.
Azam, fresh from a superb hundred in the third ODI at Edgbaston on Tuesday, faced just 49 balls as he and Rizwan took a toll of an experimental England attack.

The skipper was in typically elegant form while hitting eight fours and three sixes before he was caught behind off David Willey.

England soon found themselves 69-3 in a frantic start to their chase with fast bowler Afridi taking a brilliant caught and bowled to dismiss Dawid Malan on his way to 3-30.

Jason Roy´s rapid fifty kept England in the hunt before Livingstone, looking to establish himself in the England set-up, found his range with consecutive sixes off leg-spinner Shadab Khan.

Livingstone needed just 17 balls for his fifty before Khan hit back by dismissing Roy.

England captain Eoin Morgan fell cheaply to leave the hosts looking to Livingstone.

The Lancashire all-rounder went to his hundred in style with a six before Khan had him caught in the deep.
England´s tail now had too much to do and Afridi ended the match when he bowled Matt Parkinson with four balls left in the game.


The series continues at Headingley on Sunday.

 

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LEEDS: England beat Pakistan by 45 runs in the second Twenty20 international at Headingley on Sunday as the hosts levelled a three-match series at 1-1.

Jos Buttler, returning to the side as captain in place of the rested Eoin Morgan, top-scored with 59 in England's 200.

Pakistan were well-placed at 71-1 in the ninth over before losing five wickets for 34 runs in an eventual total of 155-9.

The series concludes at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

 

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Adil Rashid took a career-best haul before England just did enough in a nervous chase to seal a thrilling and series-clinching three-wicket win over Pakistan in a Twenty20 decider at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

Victory gave England the three-match contest 2-1 in their last white-ball fixture of the 2021 home season.

Leg-spinner Rashid took 4-35 as Pakistan were restricted to 154-6 after winning the toss, with Mohammad Rizwan batting through the innings for 76 not out.

England opener Jason Roy, the player of the match, got the chase off to a brisk start with a dashing 64.

But the hosts kept losing wickets before returning captain Eoin Morgan made a useful 21.

Liam Livingstone, the player of the series after scoring England's fastest T20 hundred in the opener at Trent Bridge, struck one six and then holed out before Chris Jordan hit the winning runs with two balls to spare.

'Worst pitch for England'

"This win means a huge amount," Morgan told Sky Sports. "This was the worst possible pitch for the way we play, and we have won on a wicket which is slow and spins so I am very proud."

Pitches in the United Arab Emirates, the venue for October's T20 World Cup, are renowned for taking turn but Morgan said: "I genuinely don't think the ball will spin like that in UAE having played a full season in the IPL (Indian Premier League) there last year, but we are ready for any surfaces that do spin."

Pakistan captain Babar Azam, whose side also lost the preceding one-day international series against England, was left lamenting a lack of runs.

"We were 10 to 15 runs short today," he said. "The partnership between myself and Mohammed Rizwan, if it had developed a bit better, maybe we would have the extra 10 or 15 runs.

"We need to do better against spinners, we haven't struggled as much but haven't batted as well as we could. Some days we have good days and some days we have bad days."

Roy took four boundaries off Shaheen Shah Afridi's first over and swept spinner Imad Wasim for six during a 30-ball fifty but on 64 he skied a catch off leg-spinner Usman Qadir, the son of Pakistan great Abdul Qadir.

Jonny Bairstow holed out cheaply off Wasim and wghen Moeen Ali was bowled by off-spinner Mohammad Hafeez for just one, England were 112-4 off 15 overs.

But with Morgan hitting a couple of fours off Hafeez, England were back on tracck.

Azam, rather than continue with spin, recalled paceman Hasan Ali into the attack only for left-hander Morgan to hoist him for two sixes.

When Hafeez bowled Dawid Malan for 31, England still needed 12 to win off eight balls.

Livingstone and Morgan then got out in quick succession before a pair of twos from Jordan ended the match.

Spin proved Pakistan's undoing for the second match in a row, with off-spinner Moeen taking 1-19 in addition to Rashid's haul.

Rashid took the first three wickets to fall, a haul that included having Azam stumped for just 11 by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler when the star batsman misread a googly.

Rashid took a wicket with his last delivery when Shadab Khan holed out, with Rizwan not seeing enough of the strike after completing a 38-ball fifty featuring two sixes.