Pakistan U19 vs England U19 Today Match Score Updates

Umar Zaib to bowl the last over of the PowerPlay. Dawkins starts the over with a single. FOUR! CRACKER OF A SHOT! Ben Mayers gets his first runs of the tournament. Some shot to get off the mark. He picks the line and length quickly, drives through the line at covers. FOUR MORE! And another. This time driven off backfoot. On the rise and dispatched for a boundary. 8 from the 10th over, England off to a positive start.

England: 52/1 on 10 overs

Ali Raza continues with his fifth over. Ben Dawkins gets a single off the second delivery before Ben Mayes, the new batter after the dismissal of Moores, plays out the rest of the over.

England: 41/1 in 9 overs

Umar Zaib continues from the other end. SIX! Smoked by Ben Dawkins. The right-handed opener has certainly looked in great touch, having done the bulk run scoring for England until now. A big swing and pull gives him and England their first maximum over deep mid-wicket. Seven from the eighth over.

England: 40/1 in 8 overs

WICKET! First breakthrough for Pakistan! Ali Raza draws first blood. He finally reaps rewards for bowling in the good channel.

The delivery slightly deviated away for the left-hander, a tentative Joseph Moores poked it and the keeper completed a safe and easy catch to give their team the first scalp.

England: 33/1 in 7 overs

The England U-19 side has played 24 dot deliveries in the first six overs. The scoring rate is just shy of five runs per over after the first 36 deliveries. Barring a few hits and misses and inside edges, the batters largely look solid, while Pakistan have also tried to keep a tight lid through their attack led by pacers Ali Raza and Umar Zaib.

England: 29/0 in 6 overs

Ali Raza with his third over. Joseph Moores gets himself a single after playing a couple of dots. FOUR! Glorious cover drive. Classy shot from Dawkins who gets under the line of the ball and plays it along the ground for a good-looking boundary. Two dots to end the over and five come from it.

England: 23/0 in 5 overs

Umar Zaib bowls the fourth over. Moores opens his hand to slash the outside off delivery but it fails to run past the fence due to a damp, slow outfield as it rained for the last two days. Dawkins gets his second boundary as he pounces on wide outside off delivery, placing it to third man for a four. A productive 7-run over for England.

England: 18/0 in 4 overs

This England U19 opening pair has an uncanny resemblance to the England senior team openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley. The left-right combination with Ben Dawkins being the lanky right-hander opener, similar shots like Crawley and then Moores reminds of Duckett, similar style of play more or less.

After making a couple of errors in his line in the first over, he appears to be on point after getting his rhythm. FOUR! Lucky boundary but England would take it anyday. Length delivery on off, lanky Dawkins goes for an expansive drive, playing away from his body and an inside edge runs past the diving keeper behind. Four from this over.

England: 11/0 in 3 overs

The right-arm pace bowler Umar Zaib will have the second new ball from the other end. He starts with a yorker length delivery, a cautious Moores defends it on frontfoot. A single via leg byes gets Moores off the strike before Dawkins initiates a quick single in the following delivery. Two off this over.

England: 7/0 in 2 overs

Ben Dawkins gets going as he is off the mark with a boundary off the second delivery after clipping the down-leg delivery fine for a boundary. Raza is looking to adjust his line at the moment, follow up with a wide. Raza improves quickly, targets the wicket-to-wicket line and beats Dawkins with a ball that angles away from the right-hander. Five from the first over.

England: 5/0 in 1 over

Among the big stars to emerge from that succesfull Asia Cup campaign for Pakistan was batting boy wonder Sameer Minhas. He scored 471 runs at an incredible average of 157 and just as incredible strike rate of 117.45. The knock that catapulted him into being a household name already in Pakistan, was the one he played against India in the final. Minhas smashed an astonishing 172 off 113 balls, the highest score by any batter in a men's under 19 tournament. The previous record was Quinton de Kock's 146 in a tri-nation toournament.

India beat the USA by six wickets via DLS method while the West Indies beat Tanzania by five wickets. The match between Zimbabwe and Scotland was abandoned and both teams shared points.

Pakistan come into this tournament as one of the teams to beat after their dominant run to the Asia Cup title in December. The last time they had won this tournament was back in 2006, when Sarfaraz Ahmed was their skipper. Can they end the drought this year?

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