As visitors England register a thumping 84-run win over hosts Pakistan in the fourth and final One-Day worldwide (ODI) at the Dubai Sports Complex on Friday, they also recorded a series win of 3-1 over the hosts.
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Wicketkeeper Buttler’s blast enabled England to plunder 129 from the final 10 overs and set Pakistan a formidable task of winning the game to draw the series 2-2.
Hales made amends together with his second catch, an impressive one to dismiss the damaging Shoaib Malik for fifty two off 34 balls and England have been in charge of the sport.
England next turn their attention to a short series of Twenty20 matches against the same opposition, beginning next Thursday.
Root ably supported Roy, hitting three boundaries and two sixes during his run-a-ball innings before he was stumped off the bowling of Azhar who finished with 2-26.
Buttler has now scored the three fastest one-day hundreds for England, after a 61-ball effort against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in 2014 and a 66-ball ton against New Zealand in June.
England were unchanged for the third game in succession.
Roy’s breakthrough innings was another reason for great satisfaction for England, in a series which has seen significant contributions from many quarters.
The run rate started to accelerate when Joe Root came to the crease, as he and Roy put on 140 for the second wicket.
Such was the beauty of Jos Buttler’s destruction of Pakistan bowlers that even the Pakistani supporters gave him a standing ovation when he leapt into the air with both arms raised after brutally hitting the helpless Anwar Ali over the mid wicket boundary to bring up a sensational 46-ball century. On March 9, England exited the World Cup in the group stages after a 15-run defeat against Bangladesh in Adelaide.
“Our goal is obviously a World Cup in four years’ time, but there’s no use thinking about that right now”, said Bayliss.
With three T20 Internationals coming up against Pakistan, Bayliss is hoping that the team can carry forward the confidence of the ODI series victory and build towards the mega-event in India next year. Everyone is watching the game evolve, and every player is a cricket fan, so they watch a lot of cricket.
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“The series is a big loss – we played a few bad cricket, we should have done a lot better”, Ali said. “It’s not that I’ve trained any differently, everyone has said I’ve maybe been a bit more relaxed with the white ball around, but I still train the same and still work hard”. “We will select the team based on the best eleven who can help us win the match”.
