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Haris Rauf‘s impressive death bowling helped Pakistan beat England in the fourth T20I to level the ongoing seven-match series at Na𝐆tional Stadium in Karachi on Sunday.
While defending their total of 166/4, Pakistan were quite comfortable when England needed 33 more runs from just three overs, with only three wickets in hand. But then the game turned on its head as Mohammad Hasnain ended up conceding 24 runs in the 18🌱th over, and 🎐the momentum shifted in favour of the tourists.
However, another twist in the tale was waiting to take place with Rauf picking up a couple of wickets in two balls, including Liam Dawson‘s, who was looking set to take England home, to put his side pretty much close to a famous victory. Reece Topley’s run-out in the final over then sealed the deal for Pakistan as England were bowled out for 163 with four balls to spare.
Earlier, the hosts put up 166/4 on the board in 20 overs, thanks to Mohammad Rizwan’s yet another sensational knock. The star wicketkeeper-batter smashed 88 from 67 deliveri♍es, with the help of nine fours and a six.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Top throw from Shan Masood in clutch finish 🎯
Incredible scenes in Karachi! 👏👏 |
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB)
Pakistan are the first team in Men’s T20I history to successfully defend less than 5 ru♛ns off the last over.
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad)
What an incredible win boys!
Super proud of you ❤️
Well done to our entire bowling unit especially excellent stꦕuff 👏🏻👏🏻— Imam Ul Haq (@ImamUlHaq12)
All even.
Karachi was 𒁃incredible. Over to you, Lahore. 🇵🇰
— Babar Azam (@babarazam258)
The delivery by Haris Rauf to Reece Topley which was a review for LBW was bowled at ꦦ155kph (96.31mph)
— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket)
Incredible game of cricket….Great Sunday afternoon viewing!
Well done Pakistan!!— Mickey Arthur (@Mickeyarthurcr1)
According to our Batting Impact measure both Rizwan’s 88 off 67 & Babar’s 36 off 28 earned positive impacts of +7 & +2. Incredibly, Asif’s 13* off 3 was th🐎e top impact performan𝓀ce (+8). The issue was Shan’s 21 off 19 (-8) & Khushdil’s 2 off 3 (-3).
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket)
UNBELIEVABLE! Wow. Seriously wow! What a game. Unbelievable. They were behind. They were ahead. They were out of the game. They got back in the game. Then England took control. And Pakistan went from dead and buried…to winning a nail biter. An incredible climax.
— Aatif Nawaz (@AatifNawaz)
ܫSeven-match white-ball series are great. You ♐actually do get a chance for narratives to develop and for teams to come back, and as it gets into it the results really feel like they matter. Much, much better entertainment than two back-to-back three-match series imo
— Ben Gardner (@Ben_Wisden)
Pakist☂an cricket is a team of heart attacks. I swear 😂😂😭😭👊
— Ihtisham Ul Haq (@iihtishamm)
