Ben Stokes starred in a last as soon as once more as England grew to become twin white-ball world champions after overcoming Pakistan by 5 wickets to win the T20 World Cup on the MCG.

Jos Buttler’s facet added the T20 trophy to the 50-over silverware that they had lifted in dramatic fashion at Lord’s in 2019 and at the moment are the primary males’s crew to carry each titles concurrently.

Stokes performed an instrumental position within the run chase in opposition to New Zealand three and a half years in the past and was on the coronary heart of issues as soon as once more along with his unbeaten 52 from 49 balls propelling England to their goal of 138 with an over to spare on a spicy pitch in opposition to a advantageous and fired-up Pakistan bowling assault.

England have been diminished to 45-3 contained in the powerplay as openers Alex Hales (1) and Buttler (26 off 17) – so damaging within the 10-wicket demolition of India in Thursday’s semi-final – and Phil Salt (10 off 9) have been dismissed and the have been 84-4 within the thirteenth over as soon as Harry Brook (20) was brilliantly caught at long-off by Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Shaheen injured himself taking that seize and subsequently pulled up one ball into the sixteenth over – with Stokes then clubbing his alternative, off-spinner Iftikhar Ahmed, for 4 and 6 off successive balls to cut back the requirement to twenty-eight from 24 balls and England wouldn’t be denied, with the wicket of Moeen Ali (19 off 13) coming too late for Pakistan.

Stokes clinched his first worldwide T20 half-century with the 4 that levelled the scores, earlier than hauling the one by means of the leg-side that took England to the title and gave him redemption, if he wanted it, from the 2016 T20 last when Carlos Brathwaite smashed him for 4 successive sixes to win the trophy for West Indies.

Sam Curran (3-12), Adil Rashid (2-22) and Chris Jordan (2-27) had earlier excelled with the ball – Rashid was excellent within the center overs along with his wickets together with Babar Azam caught and bowled – as Pakistan have been restricted to 137-8 after being inserted.

Adil Rashid caught Pakistan captain Babar Azam off his personal bowling as England bagged an important wicket on the MCG

England secured a second T20 World Cup title, after their success within the Caribbean in 2010, and a match victory that seemed a great distance off after their meek defeat to Eire on the MCG final month.

England rallied to overpower New Zealand, edge previous Sri Lanka and decimate India earlier than seeing off Pakistan to finish their opponents’ hopes of profitable the T20 World Cup for a second time and of repeating their victory over England on the MCG within the 1992 50-over last.

Future had appeared on Pakistan’s facet with this marketing campaign largely mirroring their 1992 match – gradual begin, scraping into the semi-finals, beating New Zealand within the semis, going through England within the last – however England trumped them in Melbourne.

Curran, Rashid star with ball earlier than Stokes completes job with bat

Curran, who ended the match with 13 wickets at a median of 11.38 and economic system charge of 6.52, bowled Mohammad Rizwan (15) within the fifth over after Pakistan have been inserted and returned in the course of the dying overs to have top-scorer Shan Masood (38 off 28) and Mohammad Nawaz (5) caught at deep midwicket.

Rashid, in the meantime, was masterful within the center, eradicating Mohammad Haris (8) along with his first supply of the sport after which bagging the important thing scalp Babar (32 off 28) when the Pakistan captain sliced a googly again to him and the bowler pouched low to his proper.

Babar’s exit got here in the beginning of the twelfth over with Pakistan 84-2 they usually went on lose six wickets for 47 runs.

Stokes and Jordan eliminated the opposite members of Pakistan’s high six as Stokes nicked off Iftikhar Ahmed (0) after discovering some further bounce and Jordan had Shadab Khan (20 off 14) caught at mid-off.

A chase of 138 was by no means going to be straightforward in opposition to the perfect bowling attacking within the match on a fruity pitch and so it proved as Shahen castled Hales off his pad sixth ball – the left-armer hanging in his first over for the eighth time in T20 internationals – and fellow seamer Haris Rauf then dismissed Salt and Buttler.

Salt pulled to midwicket within the fourth over and Buttler slashed behind to wicketkeeper Rizwan within the sixth to offer England some jitters earlier than Stokes and Brook eased them a contact with a fourth-wicket stand of 39 from 42 balls.

Stokes would have been run out with 51 wanted after slipping however the shy on the stumps was wayward and he went on to steer England to victory, along with his stand of 47 from 33 balls with Moeen taking the match away from Pakistan.

What’s subsequent?

England will stay in Australia to play a three-match one-day worldwide collection in opposition to Australia, starting on Thursday at Adelaide earlier than fixtures on the SCG on Saturday and MCG on November 22.

They then head to Pakistan for a three-match Check collection, their first red-ball tour of the nation since 2005, beginning on December 1 in Rawalpindi, solely dwell on Sky Sports activities.