Lahore: Thanks to Babar Azam’s unbeaten century and Mohammad Rizwan’s 88 runs in the second T20 match, Pakistan achieved England’s target of 200 runs without any loss.
In the second T20 match played at the National Stadium Karachi, Pakistan’s Babar Azam while Moin Ali captained the England cricket team.
Pakistan innings
In pursuit of the 200-run target, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan opened the innings on behalf of the national team, while David Vale bowled the first over.
Muhammad Rizwan once again showed his brilliant batting and scored his half century with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours while Babar Azam also completed his fifty in 39 balls with the help of 1 six and 6 fours.
The captain of the national team scored 110 off 66 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 11 fours while Mohammad Rizwan played an unbeaten innings of 88 runs off 51 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 5 fours.
Thus, the Green Shirts achieved the target of 200 runs without loss by scoring 203 runs in 19.3 overs and broke their own record of 197 runs against South Africa by making a partnership of 203 runs.
Babar Azam’s 8000 runs/ 2nd century as captain
In the match, captain Babar Azam crossed another milestone and scored 8000 runs in his T20 career, thus becoming the second batsman in the world after Chris Gayle to achieve this honor in 218 innings.
The captain of the national team completed a 62-ball century with the help of 5 sixes and 9 fours in a smoky batting display, becoming the first batsman in the world to score two centuries as a captain.
The skipper achieved another record and also became the first player to score more centuries as a captain for Pakistan.
Babar Azam was declared the man of the match for scoring an unbeaten century.
England innings
Alex Hales and Phil Salt opened the innings for the visiting team while Pakistan’s Mohammad Hasnain bowled the first over.
On the total score of 46, two players of England returned to the pavilion after being bowled cleanly on two consecutive balls by Shahnawaz Dhani, Alex Hales scored 26 runs off 21 balls with the help of 1 six and 3 fours, while David Mullan got out without scoring any runs, Phil Salt. After scoring 30 runs, Haris Rauf was clean bowled.
Ben Duckett showed excellent batting and scored 43 runs off 22 balls with the help of 7 fours and was bowled by Mohammad Nawaz, Harry Brook scored 31 runs off 19 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 1 four off Haris Rauf Got bold.
In this way, the visiting team scored 199 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs, Moeen Ali scored 55 off 23 balls with the help of 4 sixes, 4 fours and Sam Karan remained not out by scoring 10 runs.
For Pakistan, Shahnawaz Dhani and Haris Rauf took 2, 2 wickets while Mohammad Nawaz took one wicket.
Pakistan Playing XI
Captain Babar Azam said that a change has been made in the national team, Naseem Shah has been replaced by Mohammad Hasnain in the playing XI.
Pakistan’s playing XI for the second T20 included captain Babar Azam, wicketkeeper Muhammad Rizwan, Haider Ali, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Muhammad Nawaz, Usman Qadir, Haris Rauf, Shahnawaz Dhani and Muhammad Hasnain.
England Playing XI
The English playing XI included captain Moeen Ali, Phil Salt, Alex Hales, David Mullan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, David Vale, Luke Wood, Liam Dawson and Adil Rashid.
Congratulations to Shehbaz Sharif while kicking India
On the victory of Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated the national team on the social networking website Twitter while mocking India.
