Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature 10th over: England 89-3 (Duckett 22, Brook 2) Just finished the five from this Nawaz. He makes a good game. There’s a chance of a burnout, but there’s really no chance of a burnout because Duckett is extremely fast and dives home with plenty of time. Time for a drink as we are half way… 9th over: England 84-3 (Duckett 18, Brook 1) A successful over for Pakistan started with a delicious reverse sweep from Duckett who screamed to the boundary (is that the back point boundary now or the one at backward square leg?) A Conventional sweep brought Jacks on strike but his slog sweep nestled into the hands of Nawz at deep midwicket. A few singles saw the set with Harry Brooke taking it on his own and exiting the spot.
WIRELESS! Jacks 40 c Nawaz b Qadir 40 (England 82-3)
Jax will be annoyed with himself. He goes to sweep a more loopy delivery but misses it all and watches Nawaz take a good catch by his ankles at cow corner. However, a contribution of 44 off 22 balls is a solid debut. Qadir may be expensive but he gets wickets and that is important. 8th over: England 77-2 (Jacks 40, Duckett 12) A relatively comfortable over with no boundaries, but six singles. Nawaz will not mind this. England continue and that hinders things. I’m not going to check it. Will Jacks’ 38* is (probably) the highest Pakistan men’s international score for a Chertsey-born, Surrey batsman since Ashley Giles’ 37* in Lahore in 2000. — Mark Puttick (@GryllidaeC) September 23, 2022 7th over: England 71-2 (Jacks 37, Duckett 9) 4-b-4. It was an adventurous opener by Usman Qadir with Malan sweeping the boundary and then slotting into the deep. Ben Duckett was welcomed to the crease with another half-tracker but found the gap and held the ground to get off the mark with a boundary. Two singles to both batters meant Duckett was on strike to close the over and he tickled it nicely for the third four of the set.
WIRELESS! Malan c Ali b Qadir 14 (England 61-2)
What a game. Malan just reverse sweeps a good ball for four and then returns to the shed after finishing a half-tracker straight to the man at deep midwicket. A dirty port but it all counts. Ali is a fan. If you ask me (and no one has) I’m not. Call me old fashioned, but I like my national teams to wear the right colours. Although I do love the red number that South Africa wore in a series against Australia in the mid-90s. 6th over: England 57-1 (Jacks 36, Malan 10) Oops, extra zip from the surface. Dahani digs into a bumper and slips with pace. Well done Malan for making it. It has wheels, says Dahani. I like. Gets away a couple of times, once with an over and another through the leg side, but shows a willingness to steam in and let it rip. Jacks is up for it. Gives himself space and hits one through the covers with a flourish. He tries to sign the over with the same shot but Dahani bowls slower and tricks the batsman. It goes for four as well, but a moral victory for the bowler. 5th over: England 45-1 (Jacks 27, Malan 8) Change of bowling and Harris Rauff enters the scene. His right arms are tidy until Jacks unearths a very full ball and manages to launch it with a flourish past the bowler for four. Great shot. Its next border is striated and aided by some comedic field on the leg side. Jacks hack goes to and then goes past a diving mid-boat and goes all the way to the boundary. 4th over: England 36-1 (Jacks 19, Malan 8) Babar cancels the early spin experiment and puts Shahnawaz Dahani into the attack. Last night he bowled with Malan around his legs but that first ball is wide outside the off stump. Malan throws his hands at it and a thick edge drives it to deep third boundary. Dahani corrects his line and Malan can’t help himself and hits her. He is lucky that the lifter from a good length didn’t catch the edge. He’s more confident with his hips and hits a three-pointer. Jax gets the four to deep third, but where was the slip? Pakistan may regret it. Never mind that, the over ends with Jacks hitting a boundary down the ground. 15 from the end. 3rd over: England 21-1 (Jacks 11, Malan 1) Jacks was on strike after the wicket as the batters went through (I think this rule will change soon) and takes a single with a tap and run. There’s a wide and new batsman Dawid Malan is off course with a dab at deep third, but otherwise a good cluster for Hasnain as he takes the early wicket.
WIRELESS! Salt c Nawz b Hasnain 8 (England 18-1)
The salt tries to crush it into a different state, but only catches the upper end. He flies through the air of Karachi and three fields converge on him. For a moment it seemed as if they had met each other. Nawaz remains attached even though Hasnain almost gets in his way. Either way, the salt needs to go. No, after you. Nawaz gets the catch despite Hasnain’s best efforts. Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images Updated at 15:50 BST 2nd over: England 18-0 (Salt 8, Jacks 10) Spin with the new ball but Salt doesn’t mind as he peppers the cow corner boundary with the first delivery from Mohammad Nawaz. Salt uses his legs and takes a single wide away. Jacks registers another single and Salt does the same with a chip down the leg side. Jacks then ends the over with a drag down to long leg. Not a great set from the Pakistan offie. Updated at 3.40pm BST 1st over: England 7-0 (Salt 2, Jacks 5) Mohammad Hasnain has the ball and looks to block it. His first two balls are clipped behind square for a couple of singles, which means Will Jacks gets his first run in international cricket. Salt gets another single with a thrust towards mid on. Hasnain pulls his length with a touch and takes one to pass the Jacks low, but the opener is unfazed. He hits the last ball over and over midwicket for four. Good start for the youngster. Right then. The players escape. Pakistan in blue (is that blue), England in red, national colors are irrelevant, we’re all ready to go in. It must be delicious. [Eye emoji] This is really outrageous. How about the XIs, eh? Pakistan: Mohammad Rizwan (ed), Babar Azam (c), Haider Ali, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Shahnawaz Dahani, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Usman Qadir England: Phil Salt (wk), Will Jacks, David Malan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Moeen Alli (c), Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Reece Topley. Pakistan openers are top notch. The top two run-scorers in T20 cricket in the last two years are Pakistan’s leading men. Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam are the masters of pop. They are also number one and number four in the ICC rankings, respectively. Handy.
Pakistan win the toss and bowl first.
Unsurprisingly, after his heroics last time out, Babar takes the coin hit and opts to chase again. His team remains unchanged from yesterday’s win. Moeen would bowl first as well, but says he is “not too disappointed” to face the bat. Three changes for England. Jax, as we said, makes his debut. Mark Wood is back! That’s right guys. Alarm. The fast man is back! Another change sees Reece Topley in the side. Will Jacks will debut. According to Matt Roller of ESPNCricinfo, it will be Will Jacks. The 23-year-old batter from Surrey. What a week it has been for the south London club. After clinching the County Championship with a huge win over Yorkshire, there’s another England cap for one of their youngsters. Someone gets a new cap Alex Hales and David Willey have not traveled to the National Stadium tonight. England are preparing to introduce a cap — Matt Roller (@mroller98) September 23, 2022
Preamble
Daniel Gallan Hello and welcome to OBO live coverage of the 3rd T20 International between Pakistan and England from Karachi. We’re all square in the series after Alex Hales hit a cool half-century in his comeback match to get things going for the tourists before Babar Azam unleashed a majestic ton in an unbeaten stand of 203 to put the hosts on the scoresheet with emphasis. fashion. It was a thrilling match against England ably captained by Moeen Ali, who told our man Andy Bull that he is proud to lead his country: It’s not just the England players who are making waves in Pakistan. Some English coaches have set their sights some 3,875 miles to the east. You can read all about it from our leader Ali Martin here: If you’re so inclined and don’t mind a little self-indulgence on my part, you can check out this week’s Spin column. In it I look at the ramifications of a new T20 franchise tournament squeezed into an already packed calendar, and why a national team captain has been forced to watch from the sidelines. These three pieces should concern you for now. I’ll be back with team reports and reports in about 30 minutes (unless of course you get in touch with an email or tweet). First ball is at 7:30pm local time/3:30pm. BST. I’ll catch you in a bit.
