Summary

  • Eng reach target of 142 in 21.5 overs: Malan 68* (69), Crawley 58* (50)

  • Eng win toss & bowl in first of three ODIs

  • Dismal Pakistan bowled out for 141 in 35.2 overs

  • Superb Mahmood finishes with 4-42 off 10 overs

  • Five ODI debutants for England - Carse, Crawley, Gregory, Salt, Simpson - after Covid outbreak

  • Listen to TMS audio commentary using the play tab at top of this page

  • Highlights on BBC Two at 23:15 BST

Live Reporting

Kal Sajad and Callum Matthews

  1. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    The question here is height. I think it might be clipping.

  2. There's no bat.

  3. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    Pakistan are in disarray. It looked a good shout, it was a wonderful delivery.

  4. Pakistan review

    Shakeel

    Saqib Mahmood has got Saud Shakeel trapped lbw, but the left-hander has gone upstairs.

    This looked close.

  5. What do people make of the team, and the larger 18-man squad?

    Was there someone you thought was missing? Someone you were surprised to see?

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    Sue: Can we keep this team please?

    Matt Taggart: Have Pakistan got so wrapped up in the Euros that they're trying to post a football score?

  7. Pak 24-3

    Ben Stokes' finger is still taped up, and being held into position by a plinth or some material. He's not at 100% yet, but he loves playing for England and wasn't going to turn this opportunity down.

    It doesn't stop him sprawling around at mid-off to save a boundary.

    I imagine he's a great captain to play under.

  8. Vic Marks
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think we can safely say it's nibbling, there are signs of uneven bounce and lateral movement. Pakistan are under considerable pressure.

  9. Pak 22-3

    Saud Shakeel is up and running in international cricket.

    Saqib Mahmood's line strays ever so slightly, and it is whipped to the square leg boundary by the left-hander.

    Craig Overton could have perhaps done better at square leg, though.

    It looks like the perfect day for watching cricket. Not too hot, just a nice pleasant temperature.

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    Antony Jaycocks: What a start for @englandcricket! Great to see newly capped players taking their chances.

    Thomas Measures: Maybe we should enter our 2nd XI in the next World Cup.

  11. Here's the two wickets that Saqib Mahmood took in the first over...

  12. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at Sophia Gardens

    Small crowd or not I think everyone is a little stunned.

  13. Pak 17-3

    Saud Shakeel defends his first four balls.

  14. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    It's a delayed debut for Saud Shakeel, he was meant to play against South Africa but he got injured. He's got a very good record, averaging in the 40s. But it's the experienced players who will be under the microscope, all the Pakistani fans here in Cardiff and at home will be keen to see Babar Azam.

  15. The Pakistan debutant Saud Shakeel is the new batter.

    He's a left-hander, and averages 46 in List A cricket.

  16. Vic Marks
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    The decision to give Gregory the new ball, which was not an obvious decision, has paid dividends.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Rizwan c Simpson b Gregory 13 (Pak 17-3)

    An absolute beauty!

    It is the perfect length from Lewis Gregory, drawing Mohammad Rizwan into the defensive prod, and a feather of an edge is comfortably caught by John Simpson behind the stumps.

    A first ODI wicket for Gregory, and a first international catch for Simpson.

    England are all over Pakistan.

  18. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at Sophia Gardens

    It's interesting to see captain Stokes fielding at mid-on and mid-off early on here. Not sure I've ever seen him fielding there before.

  19. Pak 14-2

    Good cricket from Mohammad Rizwan and then Fakhar Zaman.

    The former rotates the strike after the boundary, before Fakhar gets off the mark with a nudge into the on side.

    Oh wow! Another bit of fortune for Rizwan as he ends the over by inside edging past his stumps and away for four.

  20. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was a lovely shot from Rizwan, a ravishing stroke. He's a very talented batsman who has been in great form this year.