Ben Stokes, Sam Curran seal England's T20 World Cup glory

England 138 for 5 (Stokes 52*, Rauf 2-23) bushed Pakistan 137 for 8 (Masood 38, Curran 3-12, Rashid 2-22, Jordan 2-27) by 5 wickets

England became the archetypal squad to clasp some men's World Cups simultaneously, sneaking past Pakistan successful a tense tally pursuit to triumph the 2022 Men's T20 World Cup last astatine the MCG by 5 wickets with an implicit to spare.

Ben Stokes, England's match-winner successful the 50-over last 3 years ago, anchored different tally pursuit and crushed retired his archetypal half-century successful T20 internationals successful the format's biggest game. He had battled to 24 disconnected 34 balls, but a precocious flurry of boundaries removed the scoring pressure.

The crippled changed successful the 13th implicit of England's pursuit erstwhile Shaheen Shah Afridi slid forwards to implicit a drawback disconnected Shadab Khan, dismissing Harry Brook. Pakistan's celebrations were chopped abbreviated erstwhile they realised that Shaheen had jarred his close knee, which had once threatened to regularisation him retired of the tournament.

He received immoderate attraction and attempted to instrumentality for his 3rd implicit with 41 needed disconnected 30 balls, but pulled retired of his run-up once, past sent 1 down to Moeen Ali astatine 71mph/114kph. Iftikhar Ahmed completed his implicit and Stokes targeted him: helium miscued him conscionable abbreviated of long-off, but past slapped him done screen for 4 and launched him backmost implicit his caput for six.

When Moeen started the adjacent implicit with back-to-back boundaries disconnected Mohammad Wasim, the required complaint was beneath a tally a ball. Wasim returned to york Moeen, but Stokes crashed him done screen past hauled him done the limb broadside to unafraid England's title.

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