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Pakistan seal thriller by using 31 runs, regardless of Liam Livingstone's document 42-ball hundred
Babar, Rizwan add one hundred fifty for the first wicket earlier than Shaheen Shah Afridi stars with three wickets
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Pakistan 232 for 6 (Azam 85, Rizwan 63) beat England 201 (Livingstone 103, Afridi 3-30) by using 31 runs
Liam Livingstone scored England's quickest T20I century in useless as Pakistan received an exciting contest by using 31 runs to go 1-0 up in their three-match collection at Trent Bridge.
Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan guided Pakistan to their perfect T20I complete of 232 for 6 with a 150-run opening partnership, Pakistan'ssecond-highest for any wicket in this format.
It intended England had to higher their easiest T20I rating whilst chasing and Livingstone did his utmost to strive and get them there, his 42-ball hundred beating Dawid Malan's 48-ball century in opposition to New Zealand in 2019. But with his dismissal, they fell short, bowled out for 201.
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Livingstone struck 9 sixes and six fours but, after Pakistan had decreased England to forty eight for 3, their bowlers endured to take wickets at normal sufficient intervals to dent the hosts' run-rate, which had been most excellent for large periods. Shaheen Shah Afridi used to be the pick out of the bowlers with three for 30 off 3.2 overs and he used to be exquisite in the field.
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Pakistan did not get off to a blazing start. On the contrary, by using the quit of the powerplay, they had been forty-nine for zero and it wasn't till the twelfth over that they struck their first six. They went on to rating 12 in all, equalling Pakistan's file in opposition to Bangladesh in 2007.
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Rizwan used to be nevertheless scoring at a run a ball by way of the cease of the eighth over however the twelfth over - when he and Azam every struck sixes off Matt Parkinson in the area of three balls - signaled an acceleration. Pakistan ended up scoring 152 runs of the closing 10 overs, their center order preserving the momentum even after Azam fell for a 49-ball eighty-five and Rizwan for sixty-three from 41.
Azam on a roll
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His 158 had set Pakistan up to keep away from being swept 3-0 in the ODI sequence earlier than James Vince and Lewis Gregory trumped his effort, and Azam persevered his fantastic form. He struck three consecutive fours off David Willey in the 0.33 over of the match, steerage him via the covers earlier than advancing down the pitch to chip the ball over long-on and then flicking thru midwicket with imperious timing.
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On the final ball of the over, he survived an England enchantment for lbw and their subsequent evaluation when he used to be given no longer out, replays displaying the ball was once lacking leg stump.
Eoin Morgan delivered Livingstone on in the ninth over, however it backfired when he conceded eleven runs, together with back-to-back fours to Rizwan. The twelfth over, bowled by way of Parkinson, went for 18, Azam cracking a shot over the midwicket boundary and Rizwan going flat and tough in the equal direction.
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Azam went over the fence at long-on twice more, off Parkinson and Gregory, amid a complete of eight fours. He eventually fell swinging at a wide, full shipping from Willey which Jonny Bairstow took at the back of the stumps. Initially given no longer out, England's evaluation was once profitable when UltraEdge printed a clear spike for bat on ball.
Sohaib Maqsood contributed 19 runs off seven balls, Fakhar Zaman 26 off simply eight - together with three sixes off Saqib Mahmood in the 18th over - and Mohammad Hafeez 24 off 10 to preserve Pakistan monitoring in the proper direction.
Catches, triumphing suits, and all that
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England had been nicely in advance of the required run-rate at the cease of the powerplay, having scored 20 extra runs than Pakistan to that point, however, wickets have been the trouble and some brilliant fielding from the journeying aspect was once responsible.
Afridi's gem of a return capture despatched Malan packing for simply 1, as he dived ahead on his follow-through to snatch the ball low to the ground. Imad Wasim's take to brush aside Bairstow, additionally off Afridi, used to be easy in comparison, however then got here Haris Rauf's staggering effort at cow nook to do away with Moeen Ali.
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Having skied Mohammad Hasnain in that direction, Moeen may want to solely watch as Rauf - and Maqsood - have been fortunate now not to be injured as they each ran for the ball. Rauf ended up in Maqsood's lap as he leaped with two fingers and each fell to the ground, Rauf crucially maintaining the ball to depart England wobbling on forty-eight for 3.
Livingstone lights it up
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Jason Roy regarded the man most possibly to go huge for England, racing to 32 off simply thirteen balls as wickets fell round him. But when Roy was once out edging Shadab Khan to Azam at deep point, Livingstone stepped in. Playing simply his sixth global T20, Livingstone raced to a half-century off simply 17 balls, England's quickest fifty in T20Is.
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His putting was once immaculate and energy big as he pummelled 9 sixes in all. Having viewed Hasnain tip his main part off Rauf over the rope at 0.33 man, he then despatched Rauf into the stands over a deep rectangular leg. Livingstone punished a couple of Shadab long-hops earlier than punching him down the floor twice more.
His power into the stands at cow nook off Rauf took him to ninety-seven off forty-one and inside attain of the England record. Livingstone's almighty power over long-on off Shadab to deliver up his hundred was once to be his last. He skied the very subsequent ball in the equal path however picked out Afridi on the boundary's edge. Needing forty-four off the final three overs, the undertaking proved to a great deal for the England tail.
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With Eoin Morgan having stated that England would use this sequence to examine fringe gamers beforehand of the T20 World Cup later this year, Livingstone confirmed there is nothing "fringe" about him.
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