England's Sub side thrashed Pakistan!
England’s
fans had a lot of doubts going into this game as there were a lot of newcomers
and then Pakistan had an experienced squad, so the scales were tipped in the
favor of Pakistan, but the way this England team performed was amazing, they’ve
forced the Pakistan Team to think about the way they play and how they will go
about their cricket from now on.
Pakistan
crumbled for 141 with only Fakhar Zamam being able to get a decent score of 47
while the rest of the team could barely contribute. Saqib Mahmood of England
was able to get 2 wickets in the first over of the match as he dismissed the
Pakistani captain Babar Azam and Imam Ul Haq, this caused early problems for the
visitor as they failed to get any momentum and the result was a below par score
on the board.
England
bowlers were brilliant in the field, Saqib taking 4 wickets along with Craig
Overton and Matt Parkinson taking 2 each, the fielding however was a little
sloppy as 3-4 catches were dropped. This bowling performance was a proof of
quality of the bench strength of England as they’ve established a very good
network of domestic cricket with the County Championship and Vitality Blast.
It was an easy chase for England in the end as Dawid Malan(68) and Zak Crawley(58) steered their team to the finish line. Zak Crawley showed that he is also good option for the ODI formats as he was batting well. The covid outbreak was the reason so many players got this opportunity to play but Ben Stokes was pretty vocal in the press conference that all these lads deserve to be here, which is actually true. This is just good management by the ECB and the amount of depth in the team shows how well ECB executes its plans.
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