England vs Pakistan 2nd T20I Match, Live Scores & Updates, Leeds: Pakistan won the toss and opted to bowl. In the absence of Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler will captain England today. Pakistan won the first T20 match.
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A lightning-fast opening stand of 150 runs in 15 overs between Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan sealed Pakistan’s 31-run win over England in the first Twenty20 on Friday at Trent Bridge.
Captain Azam scored 85 off 49 balls and Rizwan scored 41 runs to add 63 runs in Pakistan’s total record of 232-6.
England lost four wickets in the first seven overs, and their hopes were only dashed thanks to Liam Livingstone, who scored a career-best 103. But he was the seventh man in the 17th over and England were soon all out for 201 with four balls to spare.
The senior England star returned from self-isolation but failed to copy the second match he achieved against Pakistan in the One Day International series.
While England’s big players were ruled out of ODIs due to the coronavirus outbreak, a provisional side of county players and fringe internationals thrashed Pakistan 3-0. With the separation, only four B sides were retained and none managed to contribute much.
Livingstone, a middle-order batsman from the main squad, scored his century in a losing effort.
Pakistan recovered from the ODI humiliation, and after being forced to bat first. Babar and Rizwan were well supported by Soheb Maqsood, 19 off 7, Fakhar Zaman, 26 off eight, and Mohammad Hafeez, 10 for 24 as they easily eclipsed their previous highest T20 score of 205 in 2018 and last April. have done.
England’s chase was quickly weakened when openers David Malan and Moeen Ali were dismissed for 1 run at 48-3.
Livingstone’s 42-ball century, the fastest by an Englishman in T20Is, reached with his ninth six – more than the rest of the team – but he was caught by Shaheen Shah Afridi in the next ball at 183-7 in the 17th. But got out. over, and so England went.
Livingstone was one of five catches on the boundary, two of them by Afridi, who contributed 3-30 including a catch and a bowling.
Shadab Khan also hit the ground running with 3-52, a catch and a straight-throw run out from Tom Curran.
The second T20 is in Leeds on Sunday.
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