PAK vs ENG 5th T20 Live Score Updates: Pakistan win by 5 runs, lead series 3-2
In the last T20, Mark Wood fired a fast and short one at 153kmph outside off and had Babar Azam top-edging a cut to third man. On Wednesday night, he catapulted a 150kmph bouncer at Babar’s head. Babar almost instinctively yanked his head to the on side even as he tried a pull- more reminiscent of Sourav Ganguly’s help-lap-along version and unsurprisingly he holed out a deep square-leg.
Wood had already caused demotion of Haider Ali from No.3 earlier in the series with a fiery bouncer that Ali had no clue about. He had taken his eyes off and weakly swatted it behind square-leg for a dolly of catch. On Wednesday, Wood would fire another sharp bouncer at Ali, who went for the pull but was too late and out of position for that shot. And the ball lobbed up straight, and Wood ran forward to take it. Against Haider, now teams will be pinging the bouncers in the T20 world cup, if he makes it into the playing XI. They might try it to Babar also - Bhuvneshwar had surprised him in the Asia Cup- but without the surprise, they might need the hot pace of Wood to produce favourable results.
