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Harry Brook fancied a promotion to No. 3 and struck a superb period (100, 51b, 10x4, 4x6) to resistance England to a two-wicket triumph implicit Pakistan successful their T20 World Cup Super Eight match astatine the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026).
Brook became the archetypal skipper to notch up a ton successful the past of the tournament, ensuring his squad was not near to rue the 3 wickets it mislaid successful the PowerPlay. England got to the 165-run people with 5 balls to spare and sealed its spot successful the semifinals.
Standing tall
Walking successful aft Phil Salt was caught down disconnected Shaheen Afridi disconnected the archetypal shot of the innings, Brook added 41 of the 53 runs successful the archetypal six overs and was unfazed contempt a flurry of wickets.
He picked 17 disconnected Shadab Khan successful the 11th over, which included a heave into the sightscreen and 2 boundaries with a expanse and a slog sweep.
By the clip Brook lofted successive deliveries implicit covers disconnected Afridi’s 16th implicit to bring up the 50-ball hundred, and perished 1 transportation later, the effect was simply a formality. England survived a fewer anxious moments to registry its 2nd successive triumph successful the Super Eight. Pakistan, connected the different hand, has conscionable a solitary constituent from 2 games and is staring astatine elimination.
That Pakistan was successful the crippled astatine the innings interruption was again down to Sahibzada Farhan’s single-handed effort. He negotiated the skiddy bounce of Jofra Archer, launching him implicit constituent with a slash earlier riding the bounce wrong his crease to pummel done midwicket.
Taking enactment of the crashing tempo aft a 23-ball bound drought, Farhan and Fakhar Zaman provided timely momentum by taking 27 disconnected Will Jacks’s 2 overs.
Vital strike
Farhan’s impending alteration successful gears was averted by Jamie Overton, who pinned him successful beforehand disconnected a full-length delivery.
Usman Khan and Mohammad Nawaz perished to unsighted slogging against Liam Dawson, starting a slump that brought Pakistan crashing from 146 for 5 to 149 for eight.
Shadab’s cameo
Shadab’s 11-ball 23 saw that Pakistan lasted the afloat 20 overs, but successful the extremity adjacent that was not enough.
The scores: Pakistan 164/9 successful 20 overs (Sahibzada Farhan 63, Jofra Archer 2/32, Jamie Overton 2/26, Liam Dawson 3/24) mislaid to England 166/8 successful 19.1 overs (Harry Brook 100, Shaheen Afridi 4/30, Mohammad Nawaz 2/26, Usman Tariq 2/31).
Toss: Pakistan; PoM: Brook.
