http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 tour of England: Northants hammered by Shahzaib and Afridi, Pakistan win by 6 wickets
Pakistanis played their 2nd and last warm-up T20 match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Northamptonshire-c824 at County Ground, Northampton ahead of their international commitments. The match started at 1500hrs local time with pleasant cricketing conditions.
Afridi came back from muscle strain and led the Pakistan team in this warm-up match. He won the toss and elected to field, to give his batsmen a chance to practice run chase; and rightly so, as Pakistanis lack this capability. There were two changes in the team that played against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 yesterday: Afridi came in place of Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer replaced Shoaib Akhtar.
Northants came into field in the absence of their senior players http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802 due to a muscle strain.
Pakistan, chasing 133 runs, used a new opening combination where Kamran Akmal was joined by the young http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Razzaq-c84421 was the next man in. Shahzaib got out on 64 runs (off 40 balls) with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes. Shoaib Malik joined Razzaq, who scored the winning run in the 16th over to give Pakistanis another victory in the side matches.
Pakistan comprehensively won the match by 6 wickets and with 27 balls remaining. This victory will prove as a morale booster for the Pakistanis before the start of the International matches. Pakistan, in this tour, will play two T20s and two test match series with Australia and 4 tests, two T20s and 5 One-Day Internationals with England.
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