Pacers star again in England's domination
Batting first, with the half-century from Phil Salt, James Vince and two good innings from Lewis Gregory, Brydon Carse at the end, England posted a fighting total of 247 runs in 47 overs.
Khan Mutasim Billah LifeEditor
Posted - 2021-07-11T10:34:41+06:00
Updated - 2021-07-11T10:35:27+06:00
Highlights
Batting first, with the half-century from Phil Salt, James Vince and two good innings from Lewis Gregory, Brydon Carse at the end, England posted a fighting total of 247 runs in 47 overs. Pacer Hasan Ali took a fifer for Pakistan and Haris Rauf took 2 wickets.
Salt and Vince scored 60 runs and 56 runs respectively while Gregory and Carse played an innings of 40 runs and 31 runs.
Chasing the target, Pakistan’s poor batting from continued as they lost wickets at regular intervals and were all-out for 195 runs in 41 overs. Saud Shakeel tried at the middle with half century but failed. He played an innings of 56 runs off 77 balls. Hasan scored 31 runs.
England’s newly looked pace attack was dominant again as Gregory got three wickets while Saqib Mahmood, Craig Overton and Matt Parkinson all took two wickets each.
Gregory was adjudged man of the match for his brilliant all-round performance.
Brief scores:
England 247/10 in 45.2 overs (Salt 60, Vince 56; Hasan 5/51, Rauf 2/54)
Pakistan 195/10 in 41 overs (Shakeel 56, Hasan 31; Gregory 3/44, Saqib 2/21)
England won by 52 runs