England will be eyeing yet another T20I series win when they take on Pakistan in the third and final T20I match at Old Trafford in Manchester tonight. With a five wickets win in the last match England took a lead of 1-0 and the first match was washed out due to rain.
After the first T20I was abandoned due to rain, in second match, England's batting performance was highlighted by Captain Morgan and Dawid Malan, as they scored match-winning fifties while Jonny Bairstow played a useful knock of forty-odd runs.
Though their bowling performance was very poor and the likes of Chris Jordan, Tom Curran, and Saqib Mahmood have to do well upfront as well in death overs.
On the other hand, Pakistan batsmen especially Babar Azam and Mohammad Hafeez stepped up but Shoaib Malik and Ifthikhar Ahmed have to play the finishers' role very well, and in bowling Mohammad Amir, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Haris Rauf need to work on their line lengths and here is a list of stats ahead of this final T20I match.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the third and final T20I between England and Pakistan in Manchester :
Head to Head in T20I Cricket -
Matches - 17
England won - 11
Pakistan won - 4
No results / tied - 2
3 - Pakistan has won only 3 of the 14 T20I matches they played since the start of 2019. Their wins came against South Africa (1) and Bangladesh (2).
200 - Mohammad Amir needs 1 more wicket to achieve the milestone of 200 wickets in the T20 format.
300 - Shoaib Malik needs 3 more sixes to complete 300 sixes in T20 cricket. He has hit 297 sixes in 388 matches.
484 - Eoin Morgan has scored 484 runs at an average of 48.40 and at a strike rate of 174.10 in 14 T20I matches with 5 fifties since January 2019 - the most runs by any England batsman in this format.
5000 - Babar Azam needs 83 more runs to complete 5000 runs in T20 cricket. He has scored 4917 runs in 144 matches with 3 hundreds and 39 fifties.
10,000 - Shoaib Malik also needs 94 more runs to achieve the milestone of 10,000 runs in T20 cricket. Only Chris Gayle (13296) and Kieron Pollard (10132) have achieved this feat.
