England beat Pakistan by 52 runs in the second One-Day International at Lord’s on Saturday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in a three-match series.
Pakistan, set 248 to win in a match reduced by rain to 47 overs per side, were dismissed for 195 with six overs left after Saud Shakeel had made 56, his maiden ODI fifty.
Lewis Gregory took 3/44 after the Somerset all-rounder made a valuable 40 in England’s 247.
Earlier, Pakistan’s Hasan Ali took five wickets but England recovered to 247 all out.
England were set for a commanding total in a match reduced by rain to 47 overs per side with Phil Salt (60) and James Vince (56) sharing a third-wicket stand of 97 after both Dawid Malan and Zak Crawley had fallen for ducks.
From 118-2, however, England lost five wickets for 42 runs to be 160-7 in what was the first ODI at Lord’s since England’s dramatic 2019 World Cup final win over New Zealand and the first in the UK where a capacity crowd had been allowed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Fast bowler Ali, a star of Pakistan’s 2017 Champions Trophy triumph in England, finished with 5-51 in 9.2 overs — his fourth five-wicket haul in 56 matches at this level — when Saqib Mahmood holed out.
But by then Lewis Gregory (40) and Brydon Carse (31), both playing their maiden ODI innings, had frustrated Pakistan with an eighth-wicket stand of 69.
This series concludes with a day/nighter in Edgbaston on Tuesday.