Watch highlights: England spinners take a star turn to beat Pakistan and level T20 series
England broke with convention by fielding two leg-spinners in Adil Rashid and Matt Parkinson, with off-spinner Moeen Ali also included. LINDSEY PARNABY / AFP
England’s spinners took centre stage during a 45-run win over Pakistan in the second Twenty20 international at Headingley on Sunday.
Victory saw England level the three-match series at 1-1 ahead of Tuesday’s finale at Old Trafford.
England broke with convention by fielding two leg-spinners in Adil Rashid and Matt Parkinson, with off-spinner Moeen Ali also included.
The hosts’ decision was vindicated by the leg-break duo taking a combined 3/55 from eight overs, with player of the match Moeen adding 2/32 to his useful 36 in England’s total of 200.
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Highlights
Liam Livingstone gave the hosts hope with a 42-ball century
Livingstone s quickest ton for England in T20Is wasn t enough
Babar Azam led from the front as Pakistan beat England by 31 runs in the first T20I at Trent Bridge on Friday despite a blistering hundred from Liam Livingstone. Pakistan captain Azam made 85 and shared an opening stand of 150 with Mohammad Rizwan in a national record T20 total of 232-6. But Livingstone gave the hosts hope with a 42-ball century, England s quickest in a T20 international and the fifth fastest of all-time, hitting six fours and nine sixes on his way to three figures. Yet it wasn t enough to prevent Pakistan going 1-0 up in this three-match series, with England bowled out for 201 after player of the match Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shadab Khan took three wickets apiece.
England’s Livingstone in T20 World Cup frame after century
July 18, 2021
NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom: Liam Livingstone could yet force his way into England’s first-choice XI at this year’s Twenty20 World Cup after his stunning century against Pakistan, assistant coach Paul Collingwood said on Saturday.
Livingstone hit England’s quickest T20 hundred, off just 42 balls, including nine sixes, in a 31-run defeat by Pakistan in Nottingham on Friday.
His previous highest score in four T20 international innings was 29 not out but his tour de force at Trent Bridge may make the 27-year-old Livingstone tough to ignore at the T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in October.