Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Pakistan too good for England


Hi!
Pakistan played against England in a 5-ODI series in Pakistan.
The 1st ODI was played at Lahore on 10 December,2005.England won the toss and elected to bat 1st.Strauss scored 94 runs.Flintoff scored 72* and Pietersen scored 56 of just 39 balls.England ended up scoring 327-4.Pakistan gave a good fight but that was not enough to win the game.All Pakistani batsman made good contributions.Salman Butt,Younis Khan,Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik scored 67,60,59 and 50,respectively. Plunkett took 3-51.Pakistan were all out on 285.They lost the match by 42 runs.Strauss was named the man of the match.
After the 1st ODI England was leading the series at 0-1.
2nd ODI was also played at Lahore on 12 December,2005.England won the toss and decided to bat first.England were all out on 230.Plunkett was the only English batsman to cross 50.He scored 56.Shoaib Akhtar took 5-54.Pakistan was set a target of 231 which was not very difficult.
Kamran Akmal,Pakistani wicket keeper scored 102 and took Pakistan to victory.Pakistan won the match by 7 wickets.Akmal was named the man of the match for his match winning innings.
At that particular point of time the series was level at 1-1.
The 3rd ODI was played at Karachi on 15 December,2005.England won the toss and put the opposition on to bat.Pakistan scored 353-6 after 50 overs.Akmal scored 109.This was his 2nd Successive ODI century and the third of his career.Plunkett took 2-61.For England Ian Bell scored 37*.England were all out on 188.Shoaib Malik took 3-29.Pakistan won the match by 165 runs.Kamran Akmal was named the man of the match for his 2nd successive ODI century.Pakistan were leading the series at 2-1.
The 4th ODI was played at Rawalpindi on 19 December,2005.Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first.Pakistan were all ot on 210.Inzamam-ul-Haq scored 81*.or England,Flintoff scored 40.England were all out on 197.Afridi took 3-34.Pakistan won the match by 13 runs and also won the series 3-1.Inzamam-ul-Haq was named the man of the match.
The 5th ODI was played at Rawalpindi today i.e 21st December,2005.England won the toss and decided to bat 1st.Vikram Solanki scored 49.England ended up scoring 206-9.For Pakistan,Yasir Hameed and Mohammad Yousuf scored 57 and 54,respectively.They scored 200-9 and lost the match by 6 runs.James Anderson took 4-48 and he was named the man of the match.Pakistan won the series 3-2 and Kamran Akmal was named the man of the match.
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