Pakistan’s left-arm spinner, Imad Wasim, completed his 50 T20I wickets ashe picked up two wickets in the second T20I against England. Imad becamethe eighth Pakistani bowler to reach the landmark. Imad is just fourwickets behind the seventh-highest wicket-taker for Pakistan, SohailTanvir, who picked up 54 wickets in his career.——————————
Imad’s 50 wickets have come at an average of 23.06 and an economy rate of6.40 in 51 matches. His economy rate is the second-lowest among Pakistanibowlers to pick up at least 50 wickets. Only former off-spinner, SaeedAjmal has a better economy rate of 6.36.
The 32-year old all-rounder is the only bowler from Pakistan apart from theformer fast bowler, Umar Gul, to have picked up a five-wicket haul in T20Icricket. Imad picked up figures of 5/14 in 4 overs against the West Indiesin 2016. Gul, on the other hand, has taken two five-wicket hauls in hisillustrious career.——————————
Imad picked up the wickets of England’s top-order batsmen, Jason Roy andDawid Malan, during his first spell of the match, restricting England to18/2 inside the first three overs of the innings. Despite Imad’s brilliantbowling spell, England struck back and posted a target of 200 for Pakistanto chase.
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Pakistani batsmen were unable to chase down the target and lost the matchby 45 runs as England leveled the series 1-1. The third and series-decidingT20I will be played on Tuesday at Manchester.
