England and Pakistan play each other in the second outing of the 3-matches T20I series at Manchester.
Team
Previews -
After the washed-out affair on Friday, England and Pakistan
meet in the 2nd T20I on Sunday. Both sides would have a big
opportunity to take a lead in the series. On Friday’s first T20I, both sides
have their own positives. English opener Tom Banton took the responsibility and
smashed 71 off 42 balls with 5 sixes. Pakistan gave the nod to Rizwan over
Sarfraz and the Test performer put a good show with picking a stunner to get
Moen Ali out. He also made one stumping to give England 6th blow.
England needs to look back at their collapse when they lost 4 wickets for just
14 runs. Babar tried Imad in the first over and the spinners had a great day in
the washed-out affair. They picked all 5 wickets of the English batsmen. Imad
Wasim and Shadab Khan grabbed two scalps each. Both sides look great on paper
and it would be a thrilling game on Sunday to step closer to the series win.
Both captains might go with the similar XI in this game.
Pitch
Report
Old Trafford, Manchester is a fine batting track but the
outfield is a bit slow due to the heavy rains last night. Spinners can control
runs here. Weather is pretty clear on Sunday but nobody can predict the actual
report about UK’s weather. A score around 160-170 will be a good score on this
ground.
Possible XI
England
Tom Banton, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Dawid Malan, Eoin Morgan
(c), Sam Billings, Moeen Ali, Tom Curran, Lewis Gregory, Chris Jordan, Adil
Rashid, Saqib Mahmood
Pakistan
Babar Azam (c), Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik,
Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, Haris
Rauf/Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi
Key Players
England
Tom Banton
Eoin Morgan
Pakistan
Babar Azam
