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England take series with 121-run win

Three wickets apiece for Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann stop a resurgent Pakistan in their tracks.

Khurram Baig September 23, 2010

KARACHI: Three wickets apiece for Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann stopped a resurgent Pakistan in their tracks and sealed a thumping 121-run victory with 13 overs to spare for England in the decisive fifth and final one-day international at The Rose Bowl on Wednesday.

It was a do or die game for both teams. Pakistan wanted to end the tour on a winning note and draw some attention away from the spate of match-fixing rumours that have been hounding them on the tour. England needed the win to end the summer on a high and go into their Ashes tour, with their confidence intact.

Eoin Morgan produced his second superb century in consecutive ODI appearances at the Rose Bowl to help England post a respectable 256 after some brilliant Pakistan bowling pegged them back in the early overs. Morgan’s latest Rose Bowl fireworks also saw him deservedly took the man-of-the-match award. And while Pakistan for once got a great start from the openers they failed to maintain the momentum when first two wickets by Broad and then some great off-spin by Graeme Swan completely sent the run-chase off course.

Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who finished with three wickets for 40 runs, was impressive in first spell and this will be a memorable return to top-flight cricket for him.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2010.

COMMENTS (3)

Rizwan | 14 years ago | Reply irish batsman and umpires play better than pakistani team

Umair | 14 years ago | Reply If our batsmen were given 2-3 chances then surely 2-3 of them would have made century too... lolzz... please media HIGHLIGHT the fact that our team was playing against 13 men in ground ( including umpires). the umpiring was obvious and during first inning the result was out that they wont let pakistan win this series at any cost. in in the english blood that they cant stand a defeat from asian specially pakistan. first they killed our moral and confidence by putting hunderdz of allegation on our top players and now its obvious that they wanted pakistan to go under severe mind torture and still heads of to our team that they played so wel under all this... for me and i think for all the nation it was our win. so i am proud of my team and inshALLAH... they will be better soon, they just need support from their on country people, their fans and a little from umpires hehe... GOOOOO TEAM PAKISTAN.... Zindabad!!!

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