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Patna : Pakistan, who had lost the three-match ODI series 0-3 to second string England team recently, defeated their regular team led by Eoin Morgan by 31 runs in the 1st T20I at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, UK, on July 16, 2021, late night, at a packed stadium even as all-rounder Liam Livingstone, 27, played an incredible knock scoring 103 runs in only 43 balls hitting 6 fours and 9 sixes. Livingstone hit four and sixes almost at will. England had won the toss and opted to bowl. Shaheen Afridi was declared player Of The Match.
Chasing a target of 233 runs,England were all out for 201 runs in 19.2 overs with fast bowler Shaheen Afridi taking 3/30 in 3.2 overs and spinner Shadab Khan taking 3/52 in 4 overs. Imad Wasim, Moh Hasnain, and Haris Rauf took one wicket each. Tom Curran was run out for zero.
Batting first, Pakistan scored 232/6 in 20 overs, their highest in T20Is, with captain Babar Azam (opener) scoring 85 in 49 balls hitting 8 fours and 3 sixes and his opening partner Mohd Rizwan (wk) scoring 63 in 41 balls with 8 fours and 1 six. They added 150 runs for the 1st wicket. Fakhar Zaman scored 26 runs in 8 balls hitting 1 four and 3 sixes while Mohd Hafeez scored 24 runs in 10 balls hitting 1 four and 3 sixes. tom Curran took 2/47 in 4 overs.
Chasing the target, England lost their first wicket that of Dawid Malan ( opener) with only 12 runs on board. Malan fell go Shaheen Afridi for 1. Jonny Bairstow (wk) also fell to Afridi for 11 and it was 42/2. Moeen Ali fell to Moh Hasnain for 1 making it 48/3. Jason Roy (opener) fell to spinner Shadab Khan for 32 in 13 balls hitting 2 fours and 3 sixes and it was 82/4.
Eoin Morgan (captain) fell to Imad Wasim for 16 in 15 balls with 1 six and it was 133/5. Moran and Livingstone added 51 runs for the 5th wicket. All-rounder Lewis Gregory fell to spinner Shadab Khan for 10 making it 177/6. Livingstone fell to spinner Shadab Khan for 103 and it was 183/7. David Willey fell to fast bowler Haris Rauf for 16.