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87 Ben Stokes of England celebrates triumph pursuing during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Final lucifer betwixt Pakistan and England astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground connected November 13, 2022 successful Melbourne, Australia.
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Ben Stokes starred successful a last erstwhile again arsenic England became dual white-ball satellite champions aft overcoming Pakistan by 5 wickets to triumph the T20 World Cup astatine the MCG.
Jos Buttler's broadside added the T20 trophy to the 50-over silverware they had lifted successful melodramatic benignant astatine Lord's successful 2019 and are present the archetypal men's squad to clasp some titles simultaneously.
Stokes played an instrumental relation successful the tally pursuit against New Zealand 3 and a fractional years agone and was astatine the bosom of matters erstwhile again with his unbeaten 52 from 49 balls propelling England to their people of 138 with an implicit to spare connected a spicy transportation against a good and fired-up Pakistan bowling attack.
England were reduced to 45-3 wrong the powerplay arsenic openers Alex Hales (1) and Buttler (26 disconnected 17) - truthful destructive successful the 10-wicket demolition of India successful Thursday's semi-final - and Phil Salt (10 disconnected 9) were dismissed and the were 84-4 successful the 13th implicit erstwhile Harry Brook (20) was brilliantly caught astatine long-off by Shaheen Shah Afridi.
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Shaheen injured himself taking that drawback and subsequently pulled up 1 shot into the 16th implicit - with Stokes past clubbing his replacement, off-spinner Iftikhar Ahmed, for 4 and six disconnected successive balls to trim the request to 28 from 24 balls and England would not beryllium denied, with the wicket of Moeen Ali (19 disconnected 13) coming excessively precocious for Pakistan.
Stokes clinched his archetypal planetary T20 half-century with the 4 that levelled the scores, earlier hauling the azygous done the leg-side that took England to the rubric and gave him redemption, if helium needed it, from the 2016 T20 last erstwhile Carlos Brathwaite smashed him for 4 successive sixes to triumph the trophy for West Indies.
Sam Curran (3-12), Adil Rashid (2-22) and Chris Jordan (2-27) had earlier excelled with the shot - Rashid was outstanding successful the mediate overs with his wickets including Babar Azam caught and bowled - arsenic Pakistan were restricted to 137-8 aft being inserted.
Adil Rashid caught Pakistan skipper Babar Azam disconnected his ain bowling arsenic England bagged a important wicket astatine the MCG
England secured a 2nd T20 World Cup title, aft their occurrence successful the Caribbean successful 2010, and a tourney triumph that looked a agelong mode disconnected aft their meek decision to Ireland astatine the MCG past month.
England rallied to overpower New Zealand, borderline past Sri Lanka and decimate India earlier seeing disconnected Pakistan to extremity their opponents' hopes of winning the T20 World Cup for a 2nd clip and of repeating their triumph implicit England astatine the MCG successful the 1992 50-over final.
Destiny had seemed connected Pakistan's broadside with this run mostly mirroring their 1992 tourney - dilatory start, scraping into the semi-finals, beating New Zealand successful the semis, facing England successful the last - but England trumped them successful Melbourne.
Curran, Rashid prima with shot earlier Stokes completes occupation with bat
Curran, who ended the tourney with 13 wickets astatine an mean of 11.38 and system complaint of 6.52, bowled Mohammad Rizwan (15) successful the 5th implicit aft Pakistan were inserted and returned during the decease overs to person top-scorer Shan Masood (38 disconnected 28) and Mohammad Nawaz (5) caught astatine heavy midwicket.
Rashid, meanwhile, was masterful successful the middle, removing Mohammad Haris (8) with his archetypal transportation of the crippled and past bagging the cardinal scalp Babar (32 disconnected 28) erstwhile the Pakistan skipper sliced a googly backmost to him and the bowler pouched debased to his right.
Babar's exit came astatine the commencement of the 12th implicit with Pakistan 84-2 and they went connected suffer six wickets for 47 runs.
Stokes and Jordan removed the different members of Pakistan's apical six arsenic Stokes nicked disconnected Iftikhar Ahmed (0) aft uncovering immoderate other bounce and Jordan had Shadab Khan (20 disconnected 14) caught astatine mid-off.
A pursuit of 138 was ne'er going to beryllium casual against the champion bowling attacking successful the tourney connected a fruity transportation and truthful it proved arsenic Shahen castled Hales disconnected his pad sixth shot - the left-armer striking successful his archetypal implicit for the eighth clip successful T20 internationals - and chap seamer Haris Rauf past dismissed Salt and Buttler.
Salt pulled to midwicket successful the 4th implicit and Buttler slashed down to wicketkeeper Rizwan successful the sixth to springiness England immoderate jitters earlier Stokes and Brook eased them a interaction with a fourth-wicket basal of 39 from 42 balls.
Stokes would person been tally retired with 51 needed aft slipping but the shy astatine the stumps was wayward and helium went connected to pb England to victory, with his basal of 47 from 33 balls with Moeen taking the lucifer distant from Pakistan.
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England volition stay successful Australia to play a three-match one-day planetary bid against Australia, opening connected Thursday astatine Adelaide earlier fixtures astatine the SCG connected Saturday and MCG connected November 22.
They past caput to Pakistan for a three-match Test series, their archetypal red-ball circuit of the state since 2005, starting connected December 1 successful Rawalpindi, exclusively unrecorded connected Sky Sports.
