Pakistan seal spine chiller by 31 runs, in spite of Liam Livingstone's record 42-ball hundred

Pakistan 232 for 6 (Azam 85, Rizwan 63) beat England 201 (Livingstone 103, Afridi 3-30) by 31 runs 

Babar, Rizwan add 150 for the first wicket before Shaheen Shah Afridi stars with three wickets

Liam Livingstone scored England's quickest T20I century to no end as Pakistan won an exciting challenge by 31 rushes to go 1-0 up in their three-match series at Trent Bridge. 

Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan directed Pakistan to their most elevated T20I complete of 232 for 6 with a 150-run opening organization, Pakistan'ssecond-most noteworthy for any wicket in this arrangement. 

It implied England needed to better their most noteworthy T20I score while pursuing and Livingstone did his most extreme to attempt to get them there, his 42-ball hundred beating Dawid Malan's 48-ball century against New Zealand in 2019. Be that as it may, with his excusal, they missed the mark, bowled out for 201. Livingstone struck nine sixes and six fours at the same time, after Pakistan had decreased England to 48 for 3, their bowlers kept on taking wickets at standard enough stretches to imprint the hosts' run-rate, which had been predominant for critical periods. Shaheen Shah Afridi was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 30 off 3.2 overs and he was phenomenal in the field. 

Pakistan didn't get off to a blasting beginning. In actuality, before the finish of the powerplay, they were 49 for 0 and it wasn't until the twelfth over that they struck their initial six. They proceeded to score 12 altogether, equalling Pakistan's record against Bangladesh in 2007. 

Rizwan was all the while scoring at a show a-ball to the furthest limit of the eighth over however the twelfth over - when he and Azam each struck sixes off Matt Parkinson in about three balls - flagged a speed increase. Pakistan wound up scoring 152 runs of the last 10 overs, their center request keeping up with the force even after Azam succumbed to a 49-ball 85 and Rizwan for 63 from 41. 

Azam on a roll 

His 158 had set Pakistan up to try not to be cleared 3-0 in the ODI series before James Vince and Lewis Gregory bested his work, and Azam proceeded with his fine structure. He struck three sequential fours off David Willey in the third over of the match, directing him through the covers prior to progressing down the pitch to send the ball over long-on and afterward flicking through midwicket with imperious planning. On the last bundle of the over, he endures an England appeal for lbw and their ensuing survey when he was given not out, replays showing the ball was missing leg stump. 

Eoin Morgan welcomed Livingstone on in the 10th over, however it misfired when he surrendered 11 runs, including consecutive fours to Rizwan. The twelfth over, bowled by Parkinson, went for 18, Azam breaking a shot over the midwicket limit and Rizwan going level and hard a similar way. Azam went over the fence at long-on twice more, off Parkinson and Gregory, in the midst of an aggregate of eight fours. He at long last fell swinging at a wide, full conveyance from Willey which Jonny Bairstow took behind the stumps. At first given not out, England's audit was effective when UltraEdge uncovered a reasonable spike for bat ready. 

Sohaib Maqsood contributed 19 runs off seven balls, Fakhar Zaman 26 off only eight - including three sixes off Saqib Mahmood in the eighteenth over - and Mohammad Hafeez 24 off 10 to keep Pakistan following the correct way. 

Gets, winning matches, what not 

Britain was well in front of the necessary run-rate toward the finish of the powerplay, having scored 20 a larger number of runs than Pakistan to that point, however wickets were the issue and some incredible handling from the meeting side was capable. 

Afridi's pearl of a return get asked Malan to take a hike for only 1, as he jumped forward on his finish to snatch the ball low to the ground. Imad Wasim's take to excuse Bairstow, additionally off Afridi, was clear in examination, however then, at that point came Haris Rauf's phenomenal exertion at cow corner to eliminate Moeen Ali. Having skied Mohammad Hasnain toward that path, Moeen could just look as Rauf - and Maqsood - were fortunate not to be harmed as the two of them ran for the ball. Rauf wound up in Maqsood's lap as he jumped with two hands and both tumbled to the ground, Rauf critically holding the ball to leave England wobbling on 48 for 3. 

Livingstone illuminates it 

Jason Roy looked the man destined to pull out all the stops for England, hustling to 32 off only 13 balls as wickets fell around him. Be that as it may, when Roy was out edging Shadab Khan to Azam at profound point, Livingstone stepped in. Playing simply his 6th global T20, Livingstone dashed to 50 years off only 17 balls, England's quickest fifty in T20Is. 

His striking was flawless and his force huge as he wallop nine sixes altogether. Having seen Hasnain tip his driving edge off Rauf over the rope at third man, he then, at that point sent Rauf into the stands over profound square leg. Livingstone a few Shadab long-bounces prior to punching him down the ground twice more. His crash into the stands at cow corner off Rauf took him to 97 off 41 and reachable for the England record. Livingstone's all-powerful roll over long-on off Shadab to raise his hundred was to be his last. He skied the extremely next ball a similar way however chose Afridi on the limit's edge. Requiring 44 off the last three overs, the undertaking demonstrated a lot for the England tail. 

With Eoin Morgan has said that England would utilize this series to evaluate periphery players in front of the T20 World Cup not long from now, Livingstone displayed there isn't anything "periphery" about him.