England win 2nd T20 by 3 runs
England scored 172 runs in 20 overs
(Web Desk) -- England won the 2nd T20 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday by 3 runs. Pakistan took the chase to the wire yet were trumped in the last over as it failed to score a crucial boundary in the last over.
Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi played a key cameo of 24 runs off 8 balls as he took Pakistan close to the total.
Earlier, England won toss and elected to bat first in . Playing first under floodlights, England scraped 172 runs as late order hitting put momentum into English innings. Vince top scored with 38 runs.
Squads:
Pakistan:
Rafatullah Mohmand, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi*, Anwar Ali, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz
England:
JJ Roy, AD Hales, JM Vince, JE Root, JC Buttler*, SW Billings†, DJ Willey, CR Woakes, AU Rashid, LE Plunkett, SD Parry
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ENGLAND WIN BY 3 RUNS!
18 overs: 148-7
17.6: SIX! Third six of the over. Crowd is chanting boom boom!
17.4: SIX! Over deep backward square leg. Afridi is at it again.
17.1: SIX! Afridi hits a long one.
16 overs: 126-6
Boom Boom Afridi walks onto the crease. FOUR on the first ball.
14.0 overs: 106-4
14.3: OUT! Umar Akmal is dismissed.
12.3: OUT! Adil Rashid bowls the deceptive wrong un, gets Maqsood out who just arrived at the crease. Pakistan losing wickets in succession.
11.2: OUT! Plunket back for his 2nd spell, gets wicket of Hafeez. Pakistan lose another wicket.
10.0 overs: 86-2
Hafeez looking strong as he hits 2 boundaries in 3 balls.
8.0 overs: 60-2
7.5: OUT! Rafatullah departs after a comical knock. Another Pakistani batsman falls to a stumping.
6.0 overs: 57-1
4 dot balls in the over mounts pressure on the batting team. Rafatullah adamant to cut the ball to any effect.
5.0 overs: 51-1
4.5: OUT! Ahmed Shehzad goes down the track and loses track of the ball. Stumped. Stephen Parry
2.0 overs: 14-0
1.4: FOUR! Rafatullah announces himself with the first stroke (and a boundary) that wasn t meant to be cut.
1.0 over(s): 6-0
Rafatullah living dangerously, cutting the bouncers, cutting the short ball, cutting basically everything cuttable (and non cuttable).
0.0 overs: Ahmed Shehzad and veteran 
Rafatullah Mohmand at the crease
END OF ENGLISH INNINGS
20.0 overs: 172-8
Flurry of wickets at the death of the innings, England manage to scrap 172 runs. Afridi top-wicket taker for Pakistan.
18.1: OUT! Anwar Ali gets Liam Plunkett. Soft dismissal, edged straight to keeper.
17 overs: 139-5
17.5: OUT! Buttler gives a simple catch to keeper as he fails to time an unconventional shot.
17.4: SIX! Buttler on fire. Hits the ball clearly to the stands.
17.3: FOUR! Timed shot from Butler over the cover region for a boundary.
16.2: OUT! Whatta catch by Akmal. Pounces the catch at the boundary, wobbles on his feet, throws the ball inside the rope and comes back to collect it again like a boss. 
"Great catch by Umar Akmal! Catch depicts Umar s career as well. On the verge of getting out and somehow comes back right in!"
15 overs: 114-4
Buttler and Billings at the crease.
13.4: OUT! Afridi picks up his 3rd wicket in his 3rd over. Vince gets out after edging the ball to deep backward square leg. Vince goes after making 38 off 24.
12 overs: 89-3
11.5: SIX! Vince is dropped on the boundary, Wahab Riaz gets 6 run to his tally.
10.2: OUT! Afridi takes a blinder. Malik is the bowler who gets hit hard over legside as the skipper jumps and takes the catch.
10 overs: 68-2
Root on 12, Vince on 14 runs. England finally looks settled at the halfway stage.
7 overs: 48-2
New batsman, Joe Root, at the crease.
6.4: OUT! Afridi gets another one on his second over. JJ Roy is the victim of a well collected catch from the keeper Sarfaraz..
4.0 overs: 32-1
4.1: OUT! Afridi brings himself on the attack, picks up a wicket. Raises his arm in the air, typical Lala.
2.0 overs: 11/0
Pakistani bowlers bowling at right line and length.
0.0 overs:
Anwar Ali starts the proceedings for Pakistan.
