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Pakistan vs England Live Score Updates: England's first tour to Pakistan since 2005 starts in Karachi.

Debutant left-arm fast bowler Luke Wood grabbed 3-24 to help limit Pakistan to 158-7 after captain [Moeen Ali](https://indianexpress.com/about/moeen-ali/) won the toss in his country of roots and elected to field. [England](https://indianexpress.com/article/world/uk-coronavirus-tracker-region-wise-cases-and-deaths-6373786/) 1st T20 Match Highlights: England made a triumphant return to Pakistan after 17 years with a six-wicket win in the first Twenty20 on Tuesday. Pakistan couldn’t capitalize on Mohammad Rizwan (68) and captain Babar Azam’s (31) aggressive opening stand of 85 off 57 balls before the middle-order capitulated against Wood in the death overs.

Over-by-over report: England begin this seven-match series in Karachi, their first game in Pakistan since 2005. Join James Wallace.

The crowd go into raptures as Babar whips Willey away for the first boundary of the game, a neat clip off his toes traces to the fence. The teams are out and lined up for the anthems. 12 runs conceded from the over and not a single sniff for England. Rashid limits the home side to five runs from the over and finishes his set of four overs with 2-27. 18th over: Pakistan 141-5 (Iftikhar 14, Khushdil 2) Wood gets the wicket and bowls a miserly over for his captain too. Salt plops a 141kph ball from Dahani over mid off for four and clearly fancies a piece of the pace bowler. 5th over: England 43-1 (Hales 16, Malan 12) Good over for England, Malan uses the pace Dahani to dab a back of a length ball away past Rizwan for four. it is a painful over for Phil Salt as he struggles to get the spinner away, facing four dots before managing to get off strike with a single. Four singles follow but a decent finish to over for England, Duckett getting his sweep on, picking up two with a conventional and four over the keeper with a top-edged reverse. Malan slams a full toss from Qadir for SIX but has to go next ball, chipping a length ball back to the bowler who clings on to the return catch. Harry Brook shows more class and a deft touch, using the pace of the ball from Rauf and angling it down through third for four. Got to give a lot of praise to the bowlers who set it up nicely for our batters.

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“Maybe in the back end of the tour he will play one or two games, but we’re not sure yet,” Ali said. Fast bowlers Mark Wood and Chris Woakes are returning to the team after being sidelined for most of the summer because of injuries. Follow us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/firstpostin), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/firstpost) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/firstpost/). The remaining three will be played in Lahore from Sept. “Obviously, with my roots being from here and to lead England … England’s first tour to Pakistan since 2005 starts in Karachi, which will host four games.

Pakistan vs England Live Score: England skipper Moeen Ali won the toss and opted to field against Pakistan in Karachi. Stay updated with Times of India to ...

Naseem Shah to Moeen Ali, A dot to end the over! Harry Brook leans back and tries to play the ramp shot but misses. Harry Brook waits for it, opens the face late and steers it down to third man for four. Naseem Shah to Harry Brook, Second dot of the over! Shahnawaz Dahani to Harry Brook, A dot to start with! Mentions the conditions were a lot different from England but they managed to pull it back in the end. Ali yet again looks to heave it across the line but only connects with thin air. He says that he and Rizwan stuck to the plan and built a solid foundation up top. Brook drives it through covers for a boundary. It were the spinners for England who applied the breaks really well in the first innings. Mentions the batters though need to step-up and hopefully, they can improve in the next match. Pakistan will be eager to make a solid comeback and not let the visitors extend their lead.

England bowlers displayed combined effort to hold their nerves calm and restrict Pakistan to 158/7 in 20 overs despite top-ranked T20I batter Mohammad ...

PAK 15-0 (2 Overs) PAK 63-0 (7 Overs) ENG 15-0 (2 Overs) 2.3: Haider Ali leaps to take the catch, dances along the rope, and comes up trumps! Smartly taken going to his left. Three reds, it’s hitting middle and leg, and Duckett falls

PAK vs ENG LIVE Score: Pakistan vs England 1st T20 LIVE: England win by six wickets – Alex Hales scored a stunning half-century on his return to the England ...

- The focus will be on Babar Azam. - He looked sluggish and that put pressure on the middle-order. - The next in line is Mohammad Rizwan. Obviously, the main aim for everyone is to turn up fully ready for that World Cup. But moving on from that, the series holds significance in terms of cricket. They were forced to play home matches in neutral venues after a deadly attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in 2009. New England skipper Jos Buttler, who took over after the retirement of long-time captain Eoin Morgan this year, is nursing a calf injury that could keep him out of the series. “It’s an important series for the build-up towards that World Cup. PAK vs ENG LIVE Score: Pakistan vs England 1st T20 LIVE: England win by six wickets – Alex Hales scored a stunning half-century on his return to the England set up as the visitors clinched a comfortable six-wicket win over Pakistan in Karachi. Earlier in the day, Mohammad Rizwan scored a fine fifty but Luke Wood and Adil Rashid restricted the hosts to a below par score. This is England’s first visit since 2005 when T20 was hardly a format. Follow PAK vs ENG 1st T20 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN.