Under heavy security, England win first game they have played in Pakistan in almost 17 years
They had gone to extraordinary lengths to make this feel something like an ordinary game of cricket, with the inevitable result that it ended up anything but.
Pakistan wore specially designed shirts for the occasion, with the players’ names partially submerged under water, and every six hit totted up another $1,000 donation from the sponsors. And there was also a minute’s silence to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth. After all that, the sport stories, Hales’s return to the team, Luke Wood’s debut, felt like incidental details.
But the innings faltered when Pakistan lost three wickets in 11 balls, Haider Ali caught in the deep, Rizwan stumped for 68, and Shan Masood caught off a reverse-sweep. So 104 for one off 12 overs became 125 for four and it needed three late sixes from Ifitkhar Ahmed to revive the innings. It might have been closer if Masood had held on to a catch in the deep off Usman Qadir when Hales was on 28, especially given that he dismissed Ben Duckett lbw later in the same over.
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