Pakistan looked rusty today and will hope to shake it off before the big game against India on Sunday. They have another warm up game in hand to get back into rhythm. On the other hand, England will be pleased especially with how the chase panned out. So that's all from this fixture. We'll be back with more tomorrow. Goodbye!
Jos Buttler: Malan missed out today, so everyone moved up one. It is great to see him play well, he's (Stokes) hitting the ball well in the nets and I am sure he will take confidence from the 30-odd he got today. Everything we wanted to get out of today we did.
Great to see Livingstone back on the field after a significant injury, getting four overs from Jordan as well, Brook and Curran getting some time in the middle. We batted first in the games against Australia and wanted to bowl first, so got what we wanted from the game.
Shadab Khan: I think all the departments (were poor) but still the fielding is an eye opener for us, we didn't grab the catches and misfielded a lot. Hopefully sit together and talk about these things. It is good for us, he's (Afridi) our top class bowler and best in the world,
he bowled just two overs but still he found his rhythm. I think everything is sorted, all the combinations are sorted, when Babar and Rizwan come back everything will be fine. We didn't perform well but it is a good thing this was a warmup game.
Mohammad Hasnain to Livingstone, 1 run, dropped again! This time it is Hasnain himself. Full toss and Livingstone swings hard, miscues it straight up and Hasnain moved to his right, got both hands but does not hang on21:17 Local Time, 11:17 GMT, 16:47 IST:
England thump Pakistan in this warm-up fixture by six wickets. Stokes, Livingstone, Brook and Curran - they all got a good hit in the center during the run chase. Brook and Curran finished the game off in quite a hurry as they got home with more than four overs to spare. Pakistan were very poor on the field.
They should've put on a bigger total to begin with after a brilliant start from Masood. But lost their way to finish with 160 on the board. And then there were misfields and dropped catches aplenty as England got home in a canter.
Mohammad Nawaz to Sam Curran, 1 run, this has been bowled very wide outside off as Curran comes dancing down again. But he's still able to get to it after stretching out. Slices it in the air over point and it falls short of the deep fielder. Just 4 more needed after this massive over
Mohammad Nawaz to Harry Brook, FOUR, now the slog-sweep and it goes over the fielder who was standing well inside the ropes. It's a huge square boundary here so the fielder isn't going to stand all the way back as they look to cut the twos. And Haider tried back-pedaling but it went over him
Mohammad Nawaz to Sam Curran, FOUR, misfield in the deep! It's a flat length ball outside off, Curran backs away and slaps it over point. The ball spins after landing on the outfield and the deep point fielder overruns it
Mohammad Wasim Jr to Livingstone, out Caught by Shadab Khan!! Full outside off, Livingstone swings hard looking to hit down the ground but he slices it in the air off the outside half. Shadab takes a safe catch back-pedaling from mid-off. Livingstone c Shadab Khan b Mohammad Wasim Jr 28(16) [4s-1 6s-2]
Mohammad Hasnain to Livingstone, 2 runs, dropped! Banged into the wicket and Livingstone takes it on, he goes for the pull and the top-edge flies behind the wicket, Asif Ali runs towards short fine and puts in the dive, beautiful the ball does not stick in his gloves.
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