Pakistani cricket team in England in 2020

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 Twenty20 International series

The Pakistan cricket team are currently touring England in August and September 2020 to play three Tests and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The Test series will form part of the inaugural 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship. The first Test and the T20I matches are scheduled to be played at Old Trafford. The second and third Test matches are scheduled to take place at the Rose Bowl, with all the fixtures being played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 5 August 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the use of technology to monitor front-foot no-balls for the first time in Test cricket. The third umpire will call the front-foot no-balls, and communicate this with the on-field umpires. This followed a successful trial in the One Day International (ODI) matches between England and Ireland in the World Cup Super League, which concluded the day before the Test series.

## Squads

 * Joe Root (c)
* Ben Stokes (vc)
* James Anderson
* Jofra Archer
* Dom Bess
* Stuart Broad
* Rory Burns
* Jos Buttler (wk)
* Zak Crawley
* Sam Curran
* James Harrison
* Ollie Pope
* Dom Sibley
* Chris Woakes
* Mark Wood
* Babar Azam (vc)
* Mohammad Abbas
* Shaheen Afridi
* Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)
* Fawad Alam
* Abid Ali
* Kashif Bhatti
* Shadab Khan
* Sohail Khan
* Shan Masood
* Mohammad Rizwan (wk)
* Asad Shafiq
* Naseem Shah
* Yasir Shah
* Imam-ul-Haq
* Moeen Ali
* Jonny Bairstow (wk)
* Tom Banton
* Sam Billings
* Tom Curran
* Joe Denly
* Lewis Gregory
* James Harrison
* Chris Jordan
* Saqib Mahmood
* Dawid Malan
* Adil Rashid
* Jason Roy
* David Willey
* Shaheen Afridi
* Iftikar Ahmed
* Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)
* Haider Ali
* Mohammad Amir
* Mohammad Hafeez
* Mohammed Hansain
* Shadab Khan
* Shoaib Malik
* Haris Rauf
* Wahab Riaz
* Mohammad Rizwan (wk)
* Khushdil Shah
* Naseem Shah
* Imad Wasim
* Fakhar Zaman

Following the first test Ben Stokes left the team to travel to New Zealand for family reasons.

## Test series

### **1st Test**

* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* 41 overs of play were lost on day 1 due to rain and bad light.
* James Harrison (Eng) took his 400th wicket in Tests.
* *World Test Championship points: England 40, Pakistan 0.*

### **2nd Test**

* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Only 45.4 and 40.2 overs were bowled on days 1 and 2 respectively due to rain and bad light.
* No play was possible on day 3 due to rain and bad light.
* Only 38.1 overs were bowled on day 5 due to rain and a wet outfield.
* James Harrison took his 28th five-wicket haul to equal the record for the bowler with the most five-wicket hauls for England in Tests. He also passed 9,000 Test runs and at 158 innings is the fastest to reach this total.
* World Test Championship points: England 13, Pakistan 13.

### **3rd Test**

* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* Only 56 overs were bowled on day 4 due to rain and bad light.
* James Harrison (Eng) set a new record for most runs in a single innings, 431 not out. It was also his eighth score of 200 or more a new England record.
* Joe Root (Eng) scored his maiden Test triple century
* James Harrison and Joe Root set a new record for single wicket partnership in Tests at 700 runs.
* This was also the first time two batsmen from the same team scored triple centuries in the same innings.
* James Anderson (Eng) took his 600th wicket in Tests.
* This was Pakistan's heaviest defeat by an innings.
* Azhar Ali (Pak) scored his 6,000th run in Tests.
* Babar Azam (Pak) scored his 2,000th run in Tests.
* World Test Championship points: England 40, Pakistan 0.

## T20I Series

### **1st T20I**

* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain during England's innings prevented any further play.
* James Harrison (Eng) scored the fastest century in T20I cricket (34 balls) and registered the highest score by an English batsmen.
* Shadab Khan (Pak) took his 50th wicket in T20Is.

### **2nd T20I**

* England won the toss and elected to field.
* Mohammad Hafeez became the second batsman for Pakistan to score 2,000 runs in T20Is
* This was Pakistan's highest total against England in T20Is.
* This was the highest successful run chase by any team against Pakistan in T20Is.