Pakistan won by 10 wickets by achieving England's target of 200 runs without any loss in the third ball of the last over thanks to Baba...
Pakistan won by 10 wickets by achieving England's target of 200 runs without any loss in the third ball of the last over thanks to Babar Azam's brilliant second century of his T20 career and Muhammad Rizwan's half-century and 1-1 in the 7-match series. Equalized.
England captain Moeen Ali won the toss of the second match of the series played at the National Cricket Stadium Karachi and decided to bat first.
Alex Hales and Phil Salt provided a 42-run opening for England in the first 5 overs.
Shahnawaz Dhani came to bowl the sixth over and on the very first ball he bowled Hales, who scored a half-century in the previous match.
Alex Hales scored 26 runs off 21 balls with the help of 3 fours and a six.
Shahnawaz Dhani did not even allow the new batsman David Malan to open the account and also blew his wickets on the second ball of the sixth over.
Phil Salt and Ben Duquette put on a third wicket partnership of 53 off 37 balls to take the team's score to 95 in the 12th over.
Haris Rauf picked up his maiden wicket and third win for Pakistan with a 27-ball 30 with a four and a six.
England's score reached 103 runs in 13 overs, then Mohammad Nawaz aggressively blew the wickets of Ben Duquette, who made 43 runs off 22 balls.
Moeen Ali and Harry Brooks scored 59 runs off 27 balls with pace and left the Pakistani bowlers helpless.
In the 17th over of the innings, Haris Rauf bowled Brooks who scored 31 runs with the help of a four and three sixes off 19 balls.
The Pakistani bowlers bowled the first five batsmen while Khushal Shah dropped an easy catch of Moin Ali on the fourth ball of the 18th over.
Curran came on to support Moeen Ali for the sixth wicket and scored 10 runs without getting out, making the partnership 39 runs.
Moeen Ali scored 55 runs off 23 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes during this partnership and created a big score.
England scored 199 runs for 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
On behalf of Pakistan, Haris Rauf and Shahnawaz Dhani got 2, 2 wickets by giving 30 and 37 runs respectively and Muhammad Nawaz got one wicket.
Mohammad Hasnain, who played his first match in the series, proved to be the most expensive bowler and conceded 51 runs without a wicket in his quota of 4 overs.
Chasing a tough target, Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam started aggressively and completed the team's half-century in the sixth overs.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Rizwan must have had a tough chance but he hit Dawson for a six on the very next ball.
From the second end, Babar Azam completed his 8000 runs in T20 cricket, which is the fastest run after West Indies' famous batsman Chris Gayle.
Mohammad Rizwan completed his half century in 30 balls.
Captain Babar Azam regained his form and scored a half-century off 39 balls and put Pakistan in the best position.
Babar Azam batted more aggressively as he completed his half-century and scored his second T20 career century, hitting 9 fours and 5 sixes off 62 balls.
Babar Azam also made the record of scoring the most 9 centuries as the captain of Pakistan in all formats.
Pakistan scored 203 runs on the third ball of the last over thanks to the brilliant innings of 110 and 88 runs by captain Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan without getting out and achieved the difficult target without any loss.
England's bowlers looked completely helpless against Pakistan's openers while Pakistan leveled the series at 1-1 with this win.
Babar Azam was adjudged the man of the match for playing a glorious innings.
Earlier, after winning the toss, Moeen Ali said that the wicket is not looking fresh and we have included three spinners in the team.
He said that Dawson has been made a part of the team in place of Gleeson.
Babar Azam said that we played well in the first 10 overs in the first T20, the middle order needs to perform better and making one change in the team, Naseem Shah has been replaced by Mohammad Hasnain.
Both teams for the match consisted of these players:
England: Moeen Ali (captain), Phil Salt, Alex Hales, David Mullan, Ben Duquette, Harry Brooks, Sam Curran, David Valley, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan (wicket keeper), Hyder Ali, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Usman Qadir, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Shahnawaz Dhani.
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