The England and Wales Cricket Board’s intention is to help develop young players’ lives as well as their sporting skills. Woakes beat Tanvir of that ball but the batsmen scampered a bye and the match was tied!
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Pakistan required three runs off four balls when Chris Woakes ran in to bowl to Sohail Tanvir.
David Willey clean bowled Ahmed Shezhad before Mohammad Hafeez was involved in yet another comedy run out.
Rotation has been a regular theme in the T20 series as selectors look to establish a starting XI for the Twenty20 World Cup in India next year.
However, the Sussex paceman delivered an exhibition of fast, block-hole bowling that Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal, who was bowled off the final ball, could take for only one single and two leg byes.
Malik and Afridi came together with Pakistan struggling at 5-65 as both took the attack to the English bowlers, much to the joy of a packed 16,000 stadium.
The game swung dramatically in the final over of the match. But Shoaib raced to his fourth Twenty20 worldwide 50 in 39 balls, with eight fours and two sixes, and Afridi typically hit three maximums in his 29 from 20. The duo batted on, dragging the match to the final over before the drama unfolded off Chris Woakes’s final over.
Trevor Bayliss and captain Eoin Morgan have been fluid in their selection, so no one is certain to be involved on Monday – but Vince stepping up to open the innings, with one of Jason Roy or Alex Hales rested, is one option. “James Vince has not let us down once in three knocks with the bat and has been our player of the series which is brilliant”.
Moeen Ali departed for his second successive duck when he clubbed a pull back to the leg-spinner first ball.
Vince’s first experience of opening the batting for England in Twenty20 cricket could hardly have been more agonising.
The trouble continued for England as Anwar struck once again to dismiss Sam Billings (7), who top-edged to Akmal at mid-wicket.
Woakes, the No. 8 batsman, was the only one who managed to notch up some important runs for England after that.
Yamin became the first Pakistan bowler and 11th overall to take a wicket with his first ball in T20Is, but only bowled two overs, finishing with 1-12.
Back on the pitch, Vince had an immediate examination of his resilience when he was run out for two in England’s warm-up match against the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi six days ago.
Morgan’s dismissal was a replica of his fall in the third ODI, Malik needing only one ball to unfasten him with turn, bowling him as he tried to stay within the line of the ball.
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Vince was the last man to go in the penultimate ball of the innings, his 46 coming in 45 balls.
