Overview
- On Tuesday Arafat Minhas scored 59 and then took career-best 6-40 to turn the match in Rawalpindi and finish England off with a direct run out.
- Pakistan recovered from 133-5 to post 302-9 as Hasan Nawaz’s 79 and a late 72-run stand between Minhas and Faheem Ashraf added crucial runs.
- England opened the chase with a 91-run partnership between Tom Banton and Ben Duckett but collapsed to 215 all out after losing seven wickets for 50 runs.
- Fielding errors cost England three missed catches, two by stand-in wicketkeeper Jordan Cox and one by Gus Atkinson, and Atkinson’s early strike of Fakhar Zaman failed to stop Pakistan’s comeback.
- The win gives Pakistan two wins from two in the tri-series and raises fresh questions for England as they continue a packed winter schedule and prepare for the 2027 50-over World Cup, while Minhas joins Razzaq and Afridi as a rare Pakistan all-rounder to record a fifty and a five-wicket haul in the same ODI.