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England men · ODI · International series

Pakistan
v England⁠

Result

Pakistan won by 165 runs

Pakistan
353/6
England
188
Date
Thursday 15 December 2005 · England in 2005
Venue
Karachi
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

Pakistan v England ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to field

Pakistan · Innings 353/6 (50 overs)

Pakistan · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Salman Butt c A Flintoff b LE Plunkett 29 50 5 0 58.0
Kamran Akmal c LE Plunkett b PD Collingwood 109 111 12 0 98.2
Younis Khan c GO Jones b LE Plunkett 0 2 0 0 0.0
Mohammad Yousuf run out 68 65 7 0 104.6
Shahid Afridi run out 31 14 3 2 221.4
Inzamam-ul-Haq b A Flintoff 45 35 4 1 128.6
Abdul Razzaq not out 51* 22 5 3 231.8
Shoaib Malik not out 1* 1 0 0 100.0
Extras (b 5, lb 1, w 13, nb 0) 19
Total 50 overs 353/6

Did not bat: Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar, Yasir Arafat

Fall of wickets: 1-74 (Salman Butt, 15.6 ov), 2-84 (Younis Khan, 17.2 ov), 3-188 (Kamran Akmal, 33.4 ov), 4-234 (Shahid Afridi, 37.6 ov), 5-272 (Mohammad Yousuf, 42.5 ov), 6-350 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 49.3 ov)

Pakistan · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Andrew Flintoff 10 1 57 1 5.70 1 0
James Anderson 10 0 72 0 7.20 3 0
Steve Harmison 8 0 62 0 7.75 2 0
Liam Plunkett 7 0 61 2 8.71 2 0
Paul Collingwood 8 0 58 1 7.25 1 0
Ian Blackwell 5 0 25 0 5.00 0 0
Vikram Solanki 2 0 12 0 6.00 0 0

England · Innings 188 all out (42 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Marcus Trescothick c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Naved-ul-Hasan 22 30 3 0 73.3
Matt Prior run out 2 12 0 0 16.7
Andrew Strauss lbw b Mohammad Sami 23 23 3 0 100.0
Vikram Solanki c Younis Khan b Naved-ul-Hasan 0 2 0 0 0.0
Andrew Flintoff b Yasir Arafat 36 41 7 0 87.8
Paul Collingwood c Salman Butt b Shoaib Malik 19 31 2 0 61.3
Geraint Jones c Yasir Arafat b Shahid Afridi 14 26 0 0 53.8
Ian Blackwell c Mohammad Sami b Shahid Afridi 14 27 0 0 51.9
Ian Bell not out 37* 42 5 0 88.1
Liam Plunkett b Shoaib Malik 7 17 0 0 41.2
Steve Harmison c Shahid Afridi b Shoaib Malik 1 2 0 0 50.0
Extras (b 0, lb 7, w 5, nb 1) 13
Total 42 overs 188

Did not bat: JM Anderson

Fall of wickets: 1-22 (MJ Prior, 6.1 ov), 2-40 (ME Trescothick, 7.4 ov), 3-40 (VS Solanki, 7.6 ov), 4-79 (AJ Strauss, 16.1 ov), 5-101 (A Flintoff, 19.3 ov), 6-122 (PD Collingwood, 25.3 ov), 7-140 (GO Jones, 30.5 ov), 8-145 (ID Blackwell, 32.5 ov), 9-186 (LE Plunkett, 41.2 ov), 10-188 (SJ Harmison, 41.6 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Shoaib Akhtar 5 1 23 0 4.60 5 1
Naved-ul-Hasan 7 1 31 2 4.43 0 0
Mohammad Sami 5 1 18 1 3.60 0 0
Yasir Arafat 5 0 31 1 6.20 0 0
Shahid Afridi 10 0 42 2 4.20 0 0
Shoaib Malik 9 1 29 3 3.22 0 0
Abdul Razzaq 1 0 7 0 7.00 0 0

Player of the match: Kamran Akmal · Umpires: RE Koertzen, AL Hill · TV umpire: Zameer Haider · Match referee: JJ Crowe. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

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