England defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets in the T20 World Cup final to become the new world champion.
In the final match of the T20 World Cup played in Melbourne, England achieved the required target of 138 runs with the loss of 5 wickets an over before.
Pakistan’s first success in defending the target came early when Alex Hales, who blew away India’s bowling in the semi-final, was bowled by Shaheen Shah Afridi on the last ball of his first over. Sent to the pavilion.
On this occasion, captain Jos Buttler hit a six and two fours while batting aggressively, but before he could become more dangerous, Buttler was caught by Rizwan at the back of the wickets.
Pakistan’s fourth victory came in the form of the wicket of Harry Brooke, who was caught out by Shaheen Shah off the ball of Shadab Khan.
On this occasion, sensation was created in the match, but Shaheen Shah could not complete his quota of overs due to injury while catching Harry Brooke and went back from the ground to bowl the first ball of the third over of the quota, which was the turning point of the match. It proved, part-time bowler Iftikhar Ahmed came to complete Shaheen Shah’s incomplete over and gave away 13 runs in 5 balls.
On this occasion, Muhammad Wasim Jr. came in and the English batsmen made the target easier by scoring 18 runs in this over with three fours.
In the nineteenth over, Mohammad Wasim bowled Moeen Ali, but by then the game was out of hand and England needed only 6 runs to win the match.
England’s Ben Stokes played an unbeaten innings of 52 and played an important role in his team’s victory, captain Jos Buttler scored 26 off 17 balls.
On behalf of Pakistan, Muhammad Haris took two wickets for 23 runs, Shadab Khan, Muhammad Wasim, Shaheen Afridi got one wicket each.
Earlier, England won the toss and decided to field first. Pakistan scored 137 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Shaan Masood was the top scorer with 38 runs.
Captain Babar Azam scored 32 runs and Shadab Khan was the outstanding batsman by scoring 20 runs.
Sam Curran was the most successful bowler for England who took 3 wickets for just 12 runs, including the valuable wickets of Shaan Masood and Mohammad Rizwan.
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