In the third match of the series of seven T20 matches at the National Stadium in Karachi today, England defeated Pakistan by a huge margin of 63 runs to take a 2-1 lead in the series.

Pakistan's bowlers, who showed excellent performance in the Asia Cup, today looked helpless in front of England's young batsmen, who made a lot of trouble for their poor bowling. Harry Brooke's incredible innings of 81 run off 35 balls from England gave Pakistan a target of 222 runs to win, but Pakistan could only score 158 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the allotted 20 overs.

Pakistan's openers could not perform as well today as they did yesterday and when it came to the middle order, more questions arose instead of answers. Hyder Ali three and Iftikhar returned to the pavilion scoring only six runs and then Shan Masood and Khushdil Shah tried to play at an average of 15 runs which went in vain.

However, Shan Masood's half-century in his second T20 innings was surely the only positive thing for Pakistan in this match. He played good innings of 65 runs off 40 balls and remained not out. Meanwhile, Khushdil Shah could only score 29 runs off 21 balls and was dismissed by Adil Rashid.

Pakistan scored 158 runs at the end of 20 overs and thus the batting which had shown excellent performance on Thursday faltered today as the openers were dismissed. England made a number of changes in their bowling attack today and their effect was reflected in their good bowling.

Mark Wood's pace led to Babar Azam's dismissal while Topley's change of pace led to Rizwan's return to the pavilion.

Mark Wood took three wickets and Adil Rasheed took two wickets while Harry Brooke was awarded the Player of the Match.


Earlier, unlike the last two matches at the beginning of the innings by England, Phil Salt's score remained in single digits today and Muhammad Hasnain allowed him to score only eight runs. However, despite this loss, in the beginning, the opener Will Jacques, who made his debut on behalf of England today, adopted an aggressive style and took England's score to 57 runs in the power play.

Will Jack's innings of 40 runs included eight fours. After the power play, Usman Qadir took a wicket on a very short ball from David Malan, and then in his next over, it felt like the Pakistani spinners were able to strengthen their grip on the match. Will be able to.

But then the duo of Ben Duckett and Harry Brooke took over the position at the crease and the Pakistani bowlers failed to separate the two until the last over of such a takeover.

According to correspondent Abdul Rasheed Shakoor, the two added 139 runs in the fourth wicket partnership, which is England's highest fourth wicket partnership in T20 Internationals. On the other hand, Pakistan's Shahnawaz Dhani gave away 62 runs in his four overs today, which is the second most expensive bowling by any Pakistani bowler in T20I.

Pakistan's record for the most expensive bowling belongs to Usman Shinwari who scored 63 runs in four overs against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2019.

Out of the pair, Harry Brooke appeared to be the best batting player today as in the last two matches and remained unbeaten by making a memorable innings of 81 runs off 35 balls from a strike of more than 230.

His innings included five sixes and eight fours. On the other hand, Ben Duckett played modern shots and played an innings of 70 runs off 42 balls.

Thus, England scored 221 runs in the allotted 20 overs, which is the highest score by any team against Pakistan. Earlier this record was Sri Lanka's 211 runs for three wickets.