England rising star Tom Banton made a wonderful 71 earlier than Pakistan fought again within the first Twenty20 worldwide at Previous Trafford on Friday just for rain to reduce the match to a no-result washout. England had threatened an enormous complete whereas the 21-year-old Banton was compiling his maiden fifty in 4 T20s at this degree. However his exit left England 109-Three and sparked a collapse that noticed the 50-over world champions lose 4 wickets for 14 runs — all to spin — in 19 balls. Rain fell with England 131-6 off 16.1 overs.
The umpires held a prolonged inspection however determined shortly after 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) that the outfield was too moist to get the sport again on.
However Banton, opening after Jason Roy was ruled out with a side injury, a minimum of had an evening to recollect after being dropped on 5 when Iftikhar Ahmed floored a routine slip catch off unfortuante paceman Shaheen Afridi.
“It was good enjoyable,” Banton advised Sky Sports activities. “I struggled to start with, they bowled fairly properly after which I simply backed myself when the spinners got here on. There was a small boundary on one aspect.”
Pakistan struck 5 balls after captain Babar Azam gained the toss when left-arm spinner Imad Wasim caught and bowled Jonny Bairstow.
However Banton took cost with two slog-swept sixes off consecutive balls from leg-spinner Shadab Khan.
He went on to finish a 33-ball fifty that includes three fours and three sixes earlier than scooping paceman Haris Rauf for an audacious six over wonderful leg solely to slice Imad to extra-cover.
England captain Eoin Morgan was then lbw to Iftikhar Ahmed earlier than Moeen Ali was effectively caught by Mohammad Rizwan off Shadab.
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Wicketkeeper Rizwan, who impressed throughout Pakistan’s current 1-Zero Take a look at sequence defeat by England, then stumped Lewis Gregory off Imad, who took 2-31 from his most 4 overs.
The second fixture on this three-match sequence takes place at Previous Trafford on Sunday.
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