England was in trouble at 72 for four before a fifth-wicket stand of 103 between Ben Stokes (69) and Jonny Bairstow (61) got their innings back on track.
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England (from): Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, Billings, Buttler (wkt), Hales, Jordan, Mills, Plunkett, Rashid, Root, Roy, Stokes, Willey, Wood.
An historic batting display led by Alex Hales saw England’s cricket team set a new record for Highest team score in a One-Day International (male) against Pakistan yesterday.
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Chris Woakes has become the fourth player to admit he is not yet able to commit to the tour – although he stressed Dickason’s reassurances do carry weight with the team, and confirmed discussions are ongoing even through the current series with European Central Bank director Andrew Strauss and others. “Irfan bowled well on his comeback but unfortunately his calf was cramping up. and we couldn’t break partnerships in that middle period”.
Despite Azhar and Imad, no other Pakistani batsman could make an impact, Sami Aslam (24), Babar Azam (12), Rizwan (12) and Sharjeel Khan departed for 16. Amir, at No11, cracked a 22-ball half-century of his own, badly damaging Adil Rashid’s figures in the process.
The third ODI between Pakistan and England witnessed some new world records which included 444 runs as highest ever score, Alex Hales’s 171 runs as highest for England and Muhammad Amir’s 58 off 28 balls as number 11th batsman.
Pakistan had only four wickets in hand for their final 10. Root, who scored five successive ODI half-centuries, looked good until he top-edged Hasan to Irfan at fine leg.
It has been after the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 when England has brought change in its way of playing.
Next stop in the series will be Headingley and then onto Cardiff and The SSE SWALEC on Sunday.
Pakistan’s Sharjeel Khan leaves the field after getting out for for 16 runs against England during the fourth one day worldwide at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds.
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However, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said last week that the tour, which includes three one-day worldwide and two Test match fixtures in October and November, would go ahead as planned.
