Monday, October 17, 2022

Pakistan vs England T20 World Cup warm up: Babar, Rizwan rested as Pakistan bat first

13:49 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Its raining boundaries for Pakistan. Haider Ali now gets into the act, punishing Chris Jordan for missing on his line and length.
2.3 - Lofts a short and wide delivery over the extra-cover, and the ball bounces a couple of times to reach the fence.
2.4 - Another short delivery, but not wide this time. However, Ali decides to pull this time and pulls it well towards the fine leg boundary.

Pakistan: 36/0 after 3 overs

 

13:45 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Back-to-back boundaries for Shan Masood to finish Curran's over. First on the leg side, and now on the off side. makes room on this occasion, and slaps it over the infield on the off-side and the ball trickles to the extra-cover fence.
Pakistan: 23/0 after 2 overs

13:42 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Shan Masood is looking in a good touch to start the innings. A short pitched delivery by Sam Curran and the left-hander pulls it away beautifully on the leg side, over the mid-wicket for four runs!

13:37 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Ben Stokes bowls another no-ball, but umpire Illingworth doesn't show mercy again. 
Free hit: Shan Masood moves to his leg side, gives himself room, and smashes the ball over extra-cover for four runs. It was a short ball and that certainly helped Masood's cause!

13:35 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Ben Stokes has overstepped on the second ball of the innings - more than a foot, but that wasn't called a no ball. Umpire Richard Illingworth didn't spot it!

13:32 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
Shan Masood and Haider Ali are out to open the innings for Pakistan. England is starting with a fielder in slips. Ben Stokes to get things running for England.
 

13:30 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates, Toss:
Jos Buttler: We are going to have a bowl. We recently played against Australia and batted first in every game, we would like to change it up and chase for once. We have played a lot against Pakistan very recently, but it is about getting used to these conditions and this is our only warmup game, if there's anything the guys want to try this is the game to do it. Looking forward to the tournament. We are playing 13 players.

13:29 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates, Toss:
 

Shadab Khan: Babar and Rizwan are getting some rest as they play a lot of cricket. They are mostly on the ground as they score heavily for us and we wanted to give them rest. It is good for us, we are good at chasing and want to bat first (to test ourselves). We struggle when we bat first and wanted to do that in the warmup game.

13:19 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates, Toss:
England have won the toss and elected to bowl first. Shadab Khan was out for the toss.
Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan have been rested!

13:09 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates, Shaheen Afridi to make a comeback:
Pakistan ace pacer Shaheen Afridi will feature in today's practice match!

13:04 (IST)

Pakistan vs England Live Scores and updates:
A big hello to the die-hard cricket fans as Pakistan and England face each other in an extension of their seven-match series warmup game ahead of the start of the T20 World Cup. India have just defeated Australia in the first practice game in Brisbane, and if the pitch is expected to be any similar, the batters will continue to try their luck to heave on all sides of the ground. Toss will take place in a while, as the first game has just ended.


Preview:
As if the seven-match series was not sufficient, the newfound love affair between England and Pakistan have set another date, albeit for a practice match this time, at the Gabba in Brisbane.

Both teams will be high on confidence, emerging victorious in their last assignments. England defeated Australia 2-0 in the three-match series and would have whitewashed the hosts, if not for rain gods’ rescue act

Pakistan as well, away from their home, defeated New Zealand in the tri-series final and won the trophy in some style. Their never-ending middle-order riddle as well seemed to have eased out a bit as Mohammad Nawaz stood up to the occasion and put a couple of pieces in place.

England will be a touch better on the confidence front, having beaten Pakistan in the seven-match series 4-3 without some senior players such as Ben Stokes and skipper Jos Buttler.

Pakistan will be eager to see Shaheen Afridi back in greens and bowling in Tandem with Naseem Shah upfront.

England will look to confirm their bowling combinations from the variety of options they have at their disposal.

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