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England leg-spinner Adil Rashid went wicketless again, meaning helium has lone taken six wickets successful 10 Twenty20 matches this winter| ICC Men's T20 World Cup warm-up, Brisbane |
| Pakistan 160-8 (19 overs): Masood 39 (22); Willey 2-22 |
| England 163-4 (14.4 overs): Brook 45* (24), Stokes 36 (18); M Wasim 2-16 |
| England won by six wickets (DLS method) |
| Scorecard |
Ben Stokes showed glimpses of a instrumentality to signifier arsenic England thrashed Pakistan by six wickets successful their last warm-up crippled earlier the T20 World Cup.
The England Test skipper smashed 36 disconnected 18 balls, including 3 sixes, arsenic England chased 161 with 26 balls to spare successful a 19-over crippled successful Brisbane.
Liam Livingstone besides returned from an ankle wounded suffered successful The Hundred, hitting 28 disconnected 16 and taking 1-8.
England look Afghanistan successful their archetypal radical crippled connected Saturday (12:00 BST).
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With some sides capable to usage arsenic galore of their 15-man squad arsenic they wished, England utilized 8 bowlers, with Stokes (1-25) again fixed the caller ball, portion Sam Curran (1-14), Chris Jordan (1-36) and David Willey (2-22) were besides successful the wickets.
With Pakistan opting to not usage Babar Azam oregon Mohammed Rizwan arsenic batters, Shan Masood top-scored astatine the apical of the bid with 39 disconnected 22.
Phil Salt was fixed the accidental to unfastened alongside Alex Hales, but was bowled by the returning Shaheen Afridi for one, portion Hales lone managed nine.
Harry Brook again impressed successful the mediate order, smacking an unbeaten 45 disconnected 24 balls, including 4 sixes, with the Yorkshire batter and Sam Curran (33 not retired disconnected 14) seeing England implicit the line.
Elsewhere, determination was a six-run triumph for India implicit Australia, arsenic Aaron Finch's side, who were chasing 186, mislaid six wickets successful 12 balls astatine the extremity of their innings to autumn short.
It included Mohammed Shami taking 3-4 successful his lone over.
There was a instrumentality to signifier for Finch though, who smashed 76 disconnected 54 balls earlier being bowled by Harshal Patel.
South Africa besides thrashed New Zealand, with the Kiwis bowled retired for conscionable 98. The Proteas past took conscionable 11.2 overs to pursuit the target, with Rilee Rossouw making an unbeaten 54.
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