England won the 1st ODI match of the series against Pakistan.
The 1st match of the ODI series played yesterday between England and Pakistan at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. In which England defeated Pakistan by 9 wickets.
England won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat first, Pakistan batted first, the entire team all out after scoring just 141 runs in the second ball of the 36th over, Pakistan started very badly, Fakhar Zaman played a brilliant inning of 47 runs with the help of six boundries in 67 balls, Shadab Khan scored 30 runs in 43 balls, Sohaib Maqsood scored 19 runs in 32 balls, apart from this, Shaheen Afridi 12 runs, Mohammad Rizwan 13 runs, Hasan Ali 6 runs, Saud Shakeel 5 runs, Faheem Ashraf 5 runs, Imam-ul-Haq and Babar Azam dismissed without scoring, and Haris Rauf remains unbeaten without scoring. In this way, Pakistan batted first after losing the toss, the entire team all out after scoring just 141 runs in 35.2 overs, and set a very easy target of 142 runs in front of England.
England bowlers performed very brilliantly, Saqib Mahmood took 4 wickets for 42 runs, Craig Overton and Craig Overton took 2-2 wickets, and Lewis Gregory got 1 wicket.
England chasing very easy target of 142 runs in the second inning, they achieved the target very easily by losing just 1 wicket in the second last ball of the 22 over. England started the inning brilliantly, although the first has gone very quickly, Philip Salt and Dawid Malan came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone just in 22 runs, Philip Salt dismissed just for 7 runs in 13 balls, followed by Zak Crawley came to bat, handled the inning and took the match to the victory, Zak Crawley played a brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 58 runs with the help of 7 boundries in 69 balls, and Dawid Malan also played a brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 68 runs with the help of 8 boundries in just 7 balls. In this way, England chasing 142 runs of an easy target, they achieved the target very easily by losing just 1 wicket in just 21.5 over and won the match by 9 wickets.
Pakistani bowler Shaheen Afridi got 1 wicket.
England's bowler Saqib Mahmood selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 4 wickets for just 42 runs.
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Congratulations to the English team they are living to expection