{"id":3023,"date":"2026-10-20T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:03:46","slug":"allrounder-minhas-stars-as-pakistan-crush-england-in-tri-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3023","title":{"rendered":"Allrounder Minhas stars as Pakistan crush England in tri-series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Allrounder Arafat Minhas struck a maiden half-century and grabbed a career-best six wickets to anchor Pakistan\u2019s convincing 87-run win over England in the tri-series in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minhas hit 59 off 58 balls and was ably assisted by Hasan Nawaz, whose 74-ball 79 lifted Pakistan to a solid 302-9 at Pindi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile Minhas then took 6-40 with his beguiling left-arm spin as England were reduced to 215 all out in 38.4 overs. He also ran out the last England batter to cap a superb showing.<\/p>\n<p>England lost their last nine wickets for 95 runs after being well set at 120-1, with Tom Banton (57) and Ben Duckett (45) giving them a confident start.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas grabbed three crucial wickets, getting Banton caught off a miscued pull, bowling Harry Brook for five with a sharp turner, and then trapping Jordan Cox for 18.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas completed his second five-wicket haul when he dismissed Will Jacks for 19 and then had Jamie Overton for one.<\/p>\n<p>Banton smashed five boundaries and two sixes in his 53-ball knock.<\/p>\n<p>Naseem Shah snared the prized wicket of Joe Root for 33, and Haris Rauf removed a dangerous Sam Curran for 27 as England\u2019s run chase faltered.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz and Minhas earlier lifted Pakistan from a precarious 133-5.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz, who hit four sixes and five boundaries, added 78 for the sixth wicket with Minhas as England struggled to break their stand, dropping three catches.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas then added an invaluable 72 for the seventh wicket with Faheem Ashraf (39) as Pakistan added 91 runs in the last 10 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Minhas hit nine fours, while Ashraf\u2019s knock included a six and five boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Gus Atkinson jolted Pakistan with the very first ball of the match to dismiss Fakhar Zaman, caught by Root at short mid-wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Baker made it 2-31 with the wicket of Saim Ayub for eight before Babar Azam (34) and Saad Baig (35) steadied the innings.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Baker took 3-65, while Atkinson finished with 2-35.<\/p>\n<p>England meet Sri Lanka in the third match on Thursday, also in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allrounder Arafat Minhas struck a maiden half-century and grabbed a career-best six wickets to anchor Pakistan\u2019s convincing 87-run win over England in the tri-series in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Minhas hit 59 off 58 balls and was ably assisted by Hasan Nawaz, whose 74-ball 79 lifted Pakistan to a solid 302-9 at Pindi Stadium. The versatile Minhas then took 6-40 with his beguiling left-arm spin as England were reduced to 215 all out in 38.4 overs. He also ran out the last England batter to cap a superb showing. England lost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}