Lahore: Teams of India and Pakistan were holding the front together on Sunday. India was taking on South Africa on one hand and Pakistan was battling England on the other. While Team India’s batsmen stormed the field and scored a mountain-like score of 237 runs, on the other hand Pakistan could only manage 142 for 8 in reply to England’s 209 runs. As a result, he had to face a humiliating defeat of 67 runs in the match. Not only this, Babar Azam’s team also lost the series.
Batting first, England scored 209 for 3 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. After a good start, both the openers Salt (20) and Alex Hales (18) returned to the pavilion on the team score of 39 runs. After this David Malan took the lead. He combined with Duckett (30 off 19 balls) and Harry Brooks (46 not out from 29 balls) to stun the Pakistani bowlers. Malan played an unbeaten 78 off 47 balls with 8 fours and 3 sixes.
In response, world number one batsman Mohammad Rizwan and number three batsman Babar Azam were dismissed on the team score of 5 runs. After this, none of the batsmen could cross the double figure except Shan Masood 56, Iftikhar Ahmed 19 and Khushdil Shah 27.
Star batsman Asif Ali 7, Mohammad Nawaz 9, Mohammad Wasim Jr 5, Haris Rauf not out 1 and Mohammad Hasnain scored 1 not out. For England, Chris Woakes took 3 wickets, David Willey took 2 wickets, while Topley, Adil Rashid and Sam Curran took 1-1 wickets.
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Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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