Pakistan vs England, second T20 live: score and latest updates from Karachi

 Excellent from Dawson in the last over before drinks, using flight and lack of it to mess with the two right-handers' timing. Darts are useful, too. They take four singles, leaving them needing 113 at 11.30 an over to win.  

Lovely from Babar, filleting the covers with a glorious cut off Rashid for four. Rizwan uses his feet to glean singles off the leg-spinner, Babar stays at home. They steal a single off the final ball, taking on mid-off's throw but his shy doesn't break the stumps ... or even reach their general vicinity. 

Fine running turns a midwicket flick into two, keeping them up with the rate. Break this partnership and England will feel confident of victory but they have wasted two golden chances to do so. 

Good over by Curran, nonetheless, keeping them down to two singles and a two off the first five balls, using width and bowling it into the sticky pitch. Rizwan ends the over with a two after cuffing a pull down to fine leg. 

Time for Adil Rashid who should have cleaned up Rizwan first ball as he groped for the ball, missed it and fell over. Salt missed a routine stumping. Rizwan is beaten by a leg break but gets away off the fourth and fifth balls, sweeping both for four. Rashid seemed to have him on toast but his keeper couldn't back him up and England pay the price. 

Hales drops Rizwan at mid-off. It was a steepler and he was running backwards but he should have held on. He had enough time to turn round and take it in front of his chest not with upraised hands. Poor Liam Dawson ... his next ball is clobbered for six over long on. Rizwan sweeps for a single. Dawson drags one down to Babar who pivots and pulls it for four. 

Willey returns in the Powerplay and Rizwan plays the pick up shot to one that sits up at thigh-height on middle and leg. Rizwan whisks it over deep backward square for six. Willey opts for the yorker to stem the onslaught and Rizwan chisels it out for a single. Babar goes up and over point for four with a sliced drive to leave Willey's figures looking a little sorry: 2-0-26-0. But anyone who has the nerve and skill to bowl two Powerplay overs deserves respect and sympathy. 

Luke Wood replaces Liam Dawson. Pace on ... and he drags a wide down the legside when he sees Babar advance and he tries to out-think him. The next ball is shorter and Babar plays a princely cut, scything it in front of point for four. The crowd shout: 'Babar! Babar!' Wood sticks to the angle and length, Babar swings and misses at one slanted across him and then fails to beat the infield from the following two deliveries. A tight single to mid-on concludes the over. 

Curran replaces Willey and he goes for a wider line outside off-stump with none of the inswing Willey found. Rizwan throws his hands at the first to steer it down to third man for a single but Babar can't add to his score for a couple of balls. After two dots he hustles four wide of mid-on, beating his dive. Good comeback from Curran, though, who hurls the ball at the stumps when Babar stabs his drive into the pitch. Curran ends the over with a slow ball that Babar picked and dumped back over the bowler's head for four. 

Dawson shows his guile with a very tight line, changing trajectory to keep them down to three singles off the first five balls, using the dart judiciously. The final ball is quick, flat and arrowed into Rizwan's front pad. The wicket-keeper batsman can only tip it to midwicket for a paltry single. 

Rizwan takes strike against David Willey, whisking the first off middle and leg with the swing through square leg for four. Willey pushes the next one wider and the right-hander throws his hands at a drive and fillets it through backward point with a break of the wrists. Rizwan puts the crowd in good voice with a second our, lanced past mid-on with sweet timing. A pair of singles conclude Willey's costly over. It was only when Rashid came on for the seventh over in the first match that England managed to apply any control. But PSL veteran Liam Dawson will share today's new ball. 

Very much back to their nerveless, swashbuckling best in the middle order after Hales and Salt got them off to a flyer albeit streakily. Fantastic knocks from Duckett, Brook and Moeen have silenced the crowd ... as did Pakistan's terrible fielding. Abdul Majeed, the fielding coach, and Saqlain Mushtaq, the head coach, must be having kittens. 

Moeen takes a pair of twos, one thumped down the ground the second dragged into the legside off a no-ball. Moeen can only glean a single off the free hit, squeezing a drive down to the point boundary rider. Curran has a swish and misses, then whisks a single off his pads. Moeen has two balls left and he inflicts maximum pain on Hasnain by smashing the fifth ball over deep midwicket for six and the sixth over deep backward square for another. 

Moeen's 23-ball 55 is England's second fastest T20 half-century.  

Sam Curran comes to the ramping party, scooping the first ball of Rauf's over down to fine leg for four. He blocks the next one short of the offside infield and strolls an easy single.

Moeen has a swing and a miss at a slow-ball cutter then slaps a single through cover. Rauf shows his smarts by following Curran as he backed away and he can't reach it with his attempted scoop but another misfield at deep backward point turns a single into two. The crowd is absolutely deflated by what they've seen from the home side. 

Now Mark Butcher tells us for his paymasters that 'life is too short for sensitive teeth'. How can we get a lump of that toothpaste dollar? 

Oh dear. Khushdil Shah drops a dolly at deep  midwicket after Moeen slaps a pull that gave it more vertical than horizontal distance. Moeen adds injury to insult with a pair of fours, one of them that should have been stopped at long on, the other collared round the corner, square of short fine leg. Pakistan's fielding has been dreadful. 

Brook misses out on his pick up shot attempt but connects when the next ball is banged in and he swivels into a hook, smiting it for his third Dorothy Dix. But there will be no more as he goes for his fourth and is diddled by the slower ball. Raif may have given him the send off there, too, as he pumped his fist.  

Brook b Rauf 31 Bit too much chutzpah. Went for the ramp and was done by the slower ball, getting through the shot toon soon and ending up groping for the ball as it shot past and into off stump.  FOW 160/5

That's the end of the two spinners' quotas. Back comes Hasnain and he drifts on to Brook's leg stump. The Yorkshireman's eyes light up and he leg glances fine for four as if it came gift-wrapped. Brook taps a single, giving his captain the strike and Moeen square drives for two then climbs into a pull, swatting it past the man on the rope for four at deep backward square. After Moeen eases a single through mid on, Brook picks Hasnain's slower ball and launches it over long off for six. That's the fifty partnership off 23 balls!

Morgan may not be here but his approach lives on. England have kept swinging throughout. It was streaky at the start but Duckett, Brook and Moeen have been magnificent. 

Uzzie Qadir returns with a wide and then a googly but pitched too wide which allows Moeen to follow the turn away from him and cream it through extra for for four. The leg-break follows and beats Moeen ... and the stumps. Having exchanged a pair of singles, Moeen drops to one knee and slog sweeps a six 94m over cow corner. And for his encore? He does it again. He shook a double six. 

Brook pulls Dahani hard and flat for two through midwicket and then high and handsome for six over deep backward square. He rotates the strike with a clipped cut down to third. Wasim Akram thinks 160 is defensible given a pitch that has run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. 

It hit him on the derrière. 

Brook c Rizwan b Dahani Legside strangle? 

The loss of Duckett means both England's batsmen are green to the middle and they take a bit of time to get going. Moeen looked in rotten nick on Tuesday. let's see how he is today. The captain gets off the mark with a legside flick, Brook pushes one down the ground. 

Duckett b Nawaz 43 His first misjudgment but we have to praise the bowler for finally taking the pace off and floating down a left-arm spinner. Duckett, who had flipped the previous ball over his shoulder for four, tries again but gets too far across, misses and loses his leg  stump.  FOW 101/4

After the milking of the spinners, Babar turns back to Rauf who makes the breakthrough as Salt tries to accelerate, bamboozled by the one-two punch of slower ball and full pace on. Wickets are the best brake. Brook gets off the mark off his third delivery, playing a tootin' Rootin' dab down to third man, harnessing Rauf's speed.  

Salt b Rauf 28 Tries to cart a shorter ball over midwicket but is beaten for pace and the ball careers into the top of middle and leg. FOW 95/3

Salt works a single off his pads through midwicket, Duckett square cuts for two then shows us his hand and wrist speed with a perfectly placed sweep off a googly for four. The next ball is pushed wider outside off stump, the leg break turning in to the left-hander but Duckett still nails it, sweeping it between midwicket and mid-on for four more. Tip and run to mid-on earns him the single that brings up the fifty partnership off 33 balls. 

Brilliantly dexterous from Duckett to sweep Nawaz in front of square for four, followed by a scoop over his shoulder for two before ending the over with a thumping reverse sweep for four more.  He has made 28 off 16 wit four fours.

Time for drinks. 

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England try to accelerate but the boundaries are big. Plenty of twos out there. Not many sixes. Salt has a bog hoick at Qadir, misses and Rizwan and the bowler appeal for a catch. They don't review, though. And wisely so. Salt bunts a single down the ground, Duckett sweeps for two and reverses the shot for a single. Salt is beaten by one that skids on wide at the end of the over. It's a horrible pitch to bat on ... dead, sticky, low. 

Salt is drenched in sweat and calls for a towel. 

Spin at both ends as Babar throws the ball back to Nawaz. Duckett sweeps for a single and ends the over with a ramp over his right shoulder for four. Before that Salt freed his arms to slug a drive to the cover sweeper for a single and then deftly reverse swept for two.

Usman Qadir comes on at the end of the Powerplay. Salt drives a leg-spinner to cover for two and cuts for a single. Duckett works a single round the corner and Salt drags a single through midwicket off a short one that he didn't middle. 

Nick Hoult is back in his Karachi eyrie:

Back on the roof and just been divebombed by a green bug the size of a zeppelin – you don't get that at Wantage Road.

What a turnaround. Two wickets in two balls for Dahani and Duckett facing the hat-trick ball. He goes full and fast but Duckett defends stoutly. 

Duckett shovels two through midwicket to get off the mark. Good wheels from Dahani, a solid 88mph until he tries the slower ball. Duckett reads it and waits, then taps a pull behind square for four, more a gentle slap than a full-blooded airscrew whirl. 

Malan b Dahani 0  Gone first ball, bowled round his legs as he walked across and went for the flick.  FOW 42/2

Hales b Dahani 26  Dahani, as usual, celebrates as if winning the World Cup. Hales was trying to slog a straight one over midwicket with a cross-bat wind-up, missed and heard the death rattle of off and middle being struck.  FOW 42/1 

Another bowling change brings Haris Rauf on in the Powerplay. Salt pulls the first, almost splicing it but it still goes for four, just trickling away from Iftikhar's dive. Salt then works a 93mph ball off his ankles for a single. Hales backs away from Rauf's shorter one and thick edges it high over gully for a one-bounce four. Seat of the pants stuff. Effective but ugly. 

Dahani replaces Nawaz. England take him for a pair of singles into the offside with pushes, Hales is clonked in the box via the inside edge then throws his bat at a drive outside off and nicks it through vacant second slip for four. It may be a calculated assault but there's nothing controlled about it. England end the over as they started with a pair of singles, taking on mid-on's arm after Hales's straight drive hit the non-striker's stumps. 

Hasnain goes full, wide and fast, racking up three valuable dot balls to start the over as he does teh right-hander for pace. Hales, though, adapts by using his feet, walking across to whip four down to long leg – he would have been plumb had he missed – then backing away to slash six over the slips with a big yahoo through the line. 

Salt strides down to the first one and takes on long off with a lofted drive. He only just cleared the leaping fielder but clear him he did. Six! Cover cuts off a pokey drive but Salt rotates the strike with a clip down the ground. Hales takes on mid on but doesn't get hold of it , clothing it just beyond the fielder for two. Mid-on is targeted again by Hales with a flicky drive that he chips 3ft short of his dive. They run a single but it's a risky business. 

David Gower is engaging in some contractually obliged commentorial, talking up the qualities of Sensodyne. 

Mohammad Hasnain sprints in. Packed house again at the National Stadium. Salt on strike with a slip and a short fine leg who is called into action, first ball, when Hasnain drifts on to Salt's pads and the opener cuffs it round the corner. Fine leg stops the boundary but they run one. 

Hasnain reaches 90mph with his second ball and swings it away as Hales swishes at thin air. He gets off the mark next ball with a dab down to third. The breeze is helping the swing. Salt slashes at a wide one and thick edges a single down to deep third man but that's the sum of the damage off the over as Hasnain keeps bowling fast and full, foiling Hales' attempts to pierce the infield. 

Mohammad Nawaz will also open the bowling with his slow left-arm, as he did in the first match. 

Have been:

203 for five.

205 for three.

200 for six.

172 for eight.

So 200 looks about par. 

Anyway, here come the openers. Hasnain will open the bowling. 

Nick Hoult reports from the National Stadium

Spidercam is back. The problem with the cables and landing the police helicopter in case of an emergency has been solved - waiting to hear exactly how. Perhaps the chopper is smaller, or they can whip the cables down quicker. 

Wicket (sic*) doesn't look as fresh, there's a lot more cracks and we've got three spinners as well. 

* In the words of Richie Benaud, "it's a pitch, Moeen".  

Mohammad Hasnain replaces Naseem Shah:

Pakistan Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan,  Haider Ali,  Shan Masood,  Iftikhar Ahmed,  Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz,  Shahnawaz Dahani, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Usman Qadir. 

England Alex Hales, Phil Salt (wk), Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali (capt), Sam Curran, David Willey, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood.

Liam Dawson replaces Richard Gleeson. 

And will bat first.