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England received the T20 World Cup Ultimate in sensational model, defeating Pakistan by 5 wickets in entrance of greater than 80,000 followers on the Melbourne Cricket Floor on Sunday.
Performed beneath the specter of rain, drizzle punctuated England’s innings however the skies remained clear as England’s talisman Ben Stokes guided his aspect to victory with an unbeaten 52 off 49 balls.
As he did three years in the past when England received the one-day World Cup, Stokes hit the profitable runs and, with these runs, England turned the primary ever males’s aspect to carry the in the future and T20 World Cup on the identical time.
“I believe in finals if you find yourself chasing you overlook the onerous work that went earlier than. I believe the best way we bowled, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, that’s what received us the sport,” Stokes stated afterwards, in keeping with the BBC.
“It was a difficult wicket, you by no means felt such as you had been in on it, so to limit them the bowlers should take quite a lot of credit score for that.”
It was a nervy sport, with the England bowlers limiting Pakistan to 137-8 and their Pakistani counterparts responding in sort to restrict England’s run chase.
Pakistan batted first, after England received the toss and elected to bowl, however struggled to set a excessive whole beneath a barrage of exact bowling.
Adil Rashid and Sam Curran, who was later named participant of the match, starred within the England assault with Rashid taking the important thing wicket of Babar Azam for simply 32 within the twelfth over.
Curran, in the meantime, conceded simply 12 runs throughout his 4 over spell and took three wickets to report astonishing figures within the ultimate, for which he was awarded participant of the match.
Chasing a comparatively low whole, England faltered however as Pakistan’s star quick bowler Shaheen Afridi bowled Alex Hales within the first over.
When England’s different opener Phil Salt holed out at mid-wicket within the fourth over, Stokes strode out to the crease and anchored virtually the whole lot of his staff’s innings.
Pakistan, nonetheless, continued to bowl magnificently, with Haris Rauf taking the important thing wicket of Jos Buttler to maintain the sport just about tied and arrange a tense finale.
However England attacked off the ultimate 4 overs and wrapped up the victory with six balls to spare.
