On Friday, September 30, for the 6th T20I Pakistan vs England is going to face off each other in Lahore. The match between the both teams will take place at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore at around 8:00 PM.
The hosts of the game are leading the series 3-2 after winning the last 2 matches consecutively and is one win away from clinching the series.
On the other hand, England will be raring to level the series. Their team will try to take it to the decider that will take place on Sunday, October 2 at the same venue. The T20I series has been one of the most closely fought bilateral series in recent times.
Pakistan vs England 5th T20I Match Report
In the 5th T20I, Pakistan won the last-over with the debutant pacer, Aamer Jamal defending 15 off the last six.
Earlier in the game, Pakistani team set a total of 145 runs target, out of which most of the runs were scored by opener Mohammad Rizwan.
Rizwan scored a total of 63 runs off 46 balls. On the other hand, despite their heroic skipper Moeen Ali, their team fell short by 7 runs.
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Moeen Ali, alone scored a total of 51 runs off 31 balls. However their team lost the game against Pakistan by a very low margin of 7 runs.
The courtesy for which goes to Pakistan’s bowlers and off spinner Iftikhar Ahmed as well as Aamer Jamal.
Ahmed finished with 1 for 16 from his 4 overs while Jamal defended 15 off his last over as he nailed the Yorkers.
He didn’t let a chance slip for the England’s batters to take him for runs.
Pakistan vs England
Coming back to today’s match i.e, Pakistan vs England, is scheduled to take place on Friday, September 30, 8:00 PM IST (7:30 PM Local Time).
Speaking about weather, so far throughout the series, the weather has been warm yet humid at the both venues.
Weather Report
According to the weather forecast, today in Gaddafi Stadium, the maximum temperature will be 35 degree Celsius.
While the minimum temperature will be 29 degree Celsius.
As for humidity, the weather forecast has reportedly said that the humidity in Gaddafi Stadium will be around 89%.
While precipitation will be around 1% and the wind will blow at a rate 6Km/H.
After a long time, International cricket has returned to Pakistan and thus the Pitches have assisted well for T20.
Pitch Report
The surface of Gaddafi Stadium generally offers an even contest between batting and bowling.
If we see the last 5 matches of T20I, the average score rate on this ground is over 156.
So far, Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium has hosted 18 T20I matches with 10 matches won by the team batting first.
While 8 matches have been won by the team, who’s chasing the score in the second half innings.
It is most likely that the toss winning team will choose to bowl first and pace their innings depending on the target run in the second half of the game.
Probable Playing XIs
Pakistan
From the Pakistan, in the probable playing XIs we can see:
Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Babar Azam (c), Shan Masood, Haider Ali,
Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Aamer Jamal, Haris Rauf, and Mohammad Wasim.
England
On the other hand, from the England’s team we can see:
Alex Hales, Philip Salt (wk), Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali (c), Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
Players Stats
As of now, Rizwan’s tally of 315 runs is a record for bilateral series.
However he still needs 63 more runs from the final 2 games to go past Finland’s Gustav McKeon.
If he does pass him, he will become the leading run-scorer in any multi-team T20I international series.
Rizwan needs 63 more runs but Babar only needs 52 runs to reach 3000 in T20I games.
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If he does so in the next innings, he will become the 81st in the format and will equal the record held by India’s former captain, Virat Kohli.
England’s Moeen is also short of 67 runs, if he does so in today’s innings, he will become the 8th Englishman to 1000 in T20I games.
Stats Till Now Between England vs Pakistan
As of now, the Pakistan team has won three games in T20I, while England’s team has won 2 matches.
The first match that the Pakistani team won was against England’s team and was held on September 22 in Karachi.
In that match, Pakistan won by a margin of 10 wickets with 3 balls remaining.
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The second match that Pakistan’s team won was held on September 25. This time the Pakistani team won the match by a low margin of 3 runs.
The third match that Pakistan’s team won was held on September 28. Once again the Pakistani team won by a low margin of 6 runs.
On the other hand, England’s first win against Pakistan was by 6 wickets. The match was held on September 20 in Karachi.
England’s second win against Pakistan was by a large number of 63 runs. The match was also held in Karachi on September 23.
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