Hafeez struck a six and 10 fours in his eleventh one-day worldwide century, sharing an unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership of 106 with Babar Azam to information his aspect to victory. In his nect over Willey picked the wicket of Mohammad Hafeez to further dent the Pakistan. Malik, after scoring 10 runs, completed 6,000 one-day runs in his 229th match.
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Today sees the first of four one-day internationals between England and Pakistan and things will kick off at 11am (GMT). He hit ten boundaries and a six.
Younis was recalled to the ODI side following his supreme form in the country’s Test series win over England, averaging 50.33 across the three games and surpassing Javed Miandad as Pakistan’s highest Test run getter.
“That’s not what we want”. One minute he had a hundred to his name, feeling empowered, indeed obliged, to accelerate with England 216-1 with more than 11 overs remaining, the next moment he was out, and batting looked a different proposition for both sides from then on.
“We’re trying to get away in one-day cricket from what we’ve always done”.
Ifran finished with 3-35 from his ten overs as England, who won the toss and opted to bat on a flat pitch at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, struggled to put up a big total.
The England batsmen, too, did their bit in their sub-par effort as only Eoin Morgan (76) and James Taylor (60) were able to produce knocks of any substance.
England got off to a disastrous start when Irfan produced a sharp delivery to bowl opener Jason Roy with only the second ball of the game.
Sarfraz and Anwar Ali shared a stubborn seventh-wicket partnership of 65 to frustrate England, but knew the game was already gone.
Morgan and Taylor were left to steady the innings. The latter two wickets came as part of a fantastic death bowling spell where he denied England a good finish after a fantastic start.
Hales hit seven fours and two sixes as he reached three-figures for the first time in this format, from 111 deliveries, at his 21st attempt.
Hales then added another 114 for the second wicket with Root before his innings ended on 109.
Willey and Woakes triggered the collapse and returned a career-best 3-25 and 4-33 respectively.
For Pakistan, the avoidance of any unwanted new margins-of-defeat records – thanks to a seventh-wicket stand of 65 between Sarfraz and Anwar Ali – was as good as the evening got.
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“I was obviously very disappointed with how the Australia series went”, the right-hand opener said while speaking to the media after the second ODI.
