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England 148/4 after 19.3 overs Pak 147/9 after 20 overs England have won the opening match of Super Eights round by 6 wickets against Pakistan in Barbados. Pietersen's 70 runs not-out innings played important role in the win while Pakistan's bad fielding became the reason of loss. Pakistan dropped 5 catches in the match. Pakistan have to win next two matches to reach in the semi finals.Kieswetter started to make Pakistan pay for the two reprieves and with Lumb took England off to a roaring start in pursuit of victory against Pakistan. Saeed Ajmal made amends for the three dropped chances to lure Michael Lumb out of his crease as Kamran Akmal whipped the bails off in a flash. Abdul Razzaq removed Craig Kieswetter after the England opener had set a good pace for his team against Pakistan in the first Super Eights clash in the ICC World T20. Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi snapped up his English counterpart, Paul Collingwood with England on the verge of victory. Collingwood had played a decent hand with Pietersen, chipping in with 16 off 15 balls.Earlier, Stuart Broad, Michael Yardy and Ryan Sidebottom snared two wickets apiece as England restricted a power-packed Pakistan line-up to a modest 147 for nine. Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt gave good start. Akmal looked good pretty early in the innings and with Salman Butt at the other end took the defending champions off to a quick start. Graeme Swann struck to get rid of Salman Butt, who had started to look dangerous during the course of his 26-ball 34. Muhammad Hafeez scored 18 runs. Afridi was involved in a terrible mix-up and failed to make his ground back at the striker's end.Stunning catch from Pietersen and Umar Akmal is on his way back after a brave 30 off 25 balls. Michael Yardy struck for the second time in the match to do away with Misbah-ul-Haq. Pakistan made one change and decided to play Muhammad Asif instead of Muhammad Sami. Afterwards, New Zealand would face South Africa. Teams England: MJ Lumb, C Kieswetter (WK), KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood (Captain), EJG Morgan, LJ Wright, SCJ Broad, TT Bresnan, GP Swann, MH Yardy, RJ Sidebottom Pakistan: Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal (WK), Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi (Captain), Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Aamer, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Asif
