EDGBASTON: Green Shirts’ 26-year-old Skipper Babar Azam’s bat yielded 158 runs, yet Pakistan failed to deprive England’s B team of a series whitewash here on Tuesday (13th of July, 2021).
Rizwan supported Azam by scoring 74 enabling Pakistan muster 331 runs up for 9. Brydon Carse dismissed Azam as well as Rizwan. Commenting on today’s match Babar Azam held: “We’ve lost the series, but we want to win today and get some momentum for the T20 series…We’ve struggled in the last two matches, but we’ll try our level best today and we’re looking forward.”
Squads:
England: Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Zak Crawley, James Vince, Ben Stokes (skipper), John Simpson (wkt), Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Brydon Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson. (It is pertinent to mention here that England’s A team was quarantined after a number of players and members of management tested positive for COVID-19 at the camp. But England’s B team easily managed to win the 3-match series).
Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (skipper), Mohammad Rizwan (wkt), Saud Shakeel, Sohaib Maqsood, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf.
Umpires: David Millns (ENG), Richard Illingworth (ENG); TV umpire: Richard Kettleborough (ENG); Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG).
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