Summary

  • Pakistan (203-0) register highest successful men's T20 run-chase without losing a wicket

  • Babar strokes brilliant 110 off 66 balls

  • Rizwan offers perfect support with 88 off 51 after being dropped by Hales on 23

  • Moeen top-scores for England with 55 off 23 balls

  • Pakistan level series at 1-1 with five left to play

Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham and Josef Rindl

  1. Eng 66-2

    The projected score is at 150 now.

    Babar Azam said he'd be happy chasing that total down at the toss. England need to get a move on.

  2. Eng 62-2

    Half an appeal from Usman Qadir. Has Phil Salt edged behind? Umpire says no and Pakistan don't review.

    Tense.

  3. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Mohammad Nawaz against Ben Duckett is a good match up, and it it was excellent game awareness by the England batter spotting it was going to get fired in at the end of the over so set himself for the ramp.

  4. Eng 62-2

    Ben Duckett scoops the final ball of Nawaz's latest over. Very, very cheeky.

    You sense this is a huge opportunity for Duckett. Can he stake a World Cup spot claim?

  5. Seems to be just right at the moment. Pakistan are bowling in the Goldilocks zone

  6. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Your margin for error for a leg-spinner is quite low with short boundaries here. Too full and the batters will look to plop you over the top, but too short and the batters will rock back and hit you.

  7. Eng 53-2

    Salt 20, Duckett 7

    Five from the over. Those two wickets have seriously slowed down England.

  8. James Taylor
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

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    England were well ahead of the game but those two Pakistan wickets have brought them right back into the game.

  9. Eng 50-2

    England's 50 comes up as Salt runs a two off spinner Usman Qadir.

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    Arjun: That’s why Malan doesn’t inspire confidence. No idea what he was thinking there.

  11. Eng 48-2

    Duckett does indeed find the angle, pulling a slower ball for four.

    But that's undoubtedly Pakistan's power play. England have to rebuild now.

  12. James Taylor
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Ben Duckett is good a creating angles, and rotating the strike. He has a chance to face a few balls here and advance his claims in an England shirt.

  13. Eng 42-2

    Blocked.

  14. How's Ben Duckett's forward defence?

  15. So then. Hat-trick chance...

  16. James Taylor
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Deja vu with that celebration! This time he was a bit straighter. Dawid Malan got too far across and exposed his leg stump. I don't know if we will be able to keep him in the stadium if he gets a hat-trick here.

  17. wicket

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    Malan b Dahani 0 (Eng 42-2)

    Two in two!

    New batter Dawid Malan steps across, exposing his leg stump which Dahani finds with a yorker.

  18. The celebration had an air of Shearer about it, running forward with one hand raised.

  19. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    That was a big mow across the line from Alex Hales. A huge celebration from Dahani and the crowd go crazy in Karachi.

  20. wicket

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    Hales b Dahani 26 (Eng 42-1)

    The slower delivery gets Alex Hales. He swings and misses with Shahnawaz Dahani's delivery cannoning into his stumps.

    Pakistan have pegged England back.