Stats: England stop Pakistan's winning charge, deja vu prevails in UAE
4 – Number of times now Pakistan have conceded 150 or more runs when fielding first against England – most number of times any team has passed 150 in first innings of T20I games against Pakistan. Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies each have achieved it thrice against Pakistan.
44 – Number of Times England have gone past 150 in a T20I match batting first or second – easily the most for any team with New Zealand at 38 and Australia at 37.
0 – Number of times before today Pakistan have been unsuccessful in chasing a target of 170-180 in a T20I game. Pakistan chased down 170-180 target four times. However, today their winning streak came to an end.
0 – Number of times in a T20 International game when both openers were stumped out. Today Rafatullah and Ahmad Shehzad became the first opening pair to be dismissed stumped out in the same game.
13.92 – Sohaib Maqsood’s batting average when batting in top 6 in a T20I match – lowest for any Pakistani player (min 15 Matches). He has scored 181 runs in 14 innings with no fifty. His career best is 37. His career average of 14.50 is worse than Wahab Riaz’ 18.20 and Anwar Ali’s 17.40.
3 – Number of times Sohail Tanveer conceded 40 plus runs in a T20I Innings. Also the number of times Wahab Riaz has conceded 35 plus in a T20I Innings, and also the number of sixes Afridi hit to Woakes in 18th over and wickets taken by Afridi.
9 – Number of T20Is England have won against Pakistan – the most England have won against any team and most Pakistan have lost against any team.
3rd - England’s Sam Billings, who was playing his 3rd T20 international, became the 3rd wicket-keeper batsman to reach the landmark of scoring a half century and taking three dismissals in a match. He scored 53 runs and took two catches and made one stumping. New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum and Pakistan’s Kamran Akmal are the two other players who have achieved this feat.
0 – number of times in T20I history when 5 batsmen of the same team scored runs in the twenties. Today was the first such instance when five Pakistani batsmen scored 23, 24, 25, 26 and 28 runs. THere have been 9 such instances with at least 4 players but not a single before this one involving five batsmen. It is also the first instance when at least 7 batsmen have done it in a single match, with two joining from England side.
deja vu- England in their previous tour of UAE in 2011/12 lost the Test series, won the ODI series and also the T20 series against Pakistan – sounds somewhat like a more recent series of matches.