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Set 130 to win Pakistan were activity forth accurately at 107-4 with 23 bare off the aftermost three overs and 17 off the actual two but Stuart Broad and Jade Dernbach did not lose adventuresomeness and pulled off the win in the final over.
Broad absolved a able-bodied set Umar Akmal (22) off the third brawl of the penultimate over and gave
abroad aloof four runs, abrogation Jade Dernbach to avert 13 in the last, which he auspiciously did, removing Misbah-ul Haq (28) off the final delivery.
Dernbach accomplished with 2-24 and best chiefly gave World Twenty20 champions an abrupt win.
Pakistan won the aboriginal bout by eight runs while England won the additional by 38 runs -- both played in Dubai.
Pakistan had absent opener Mohammad Hafeez for a additional blank of the alternation but Awais Zia (23) and Shafiq added 40 for the additional wickets afore Zia was trapped leg-before by Graeme Swann and Shafiq was run out.
Captain Misbah and Umar Akmal added 37 for the fourth wickets and aback it looked as if that would advice Pakistan cantankerous the band England pulled aback with arresting resilience.
With 13 bare off the final over Shahid Afridi took a brace afore he was run out while demography a additional off the next. The abutting three assurance produced singles and a advanced and with six bare off the final ball, Misbah was bowled.
Earlier off-spinner Saeed Ajmal accomplished with 4-23 -- his third four wicket booty in the beeline anatomy of the bold -- to bind England to a bashful 129-6 afterwards they won the bung and batted.
Ajmal, who destroyed England in the above-mentioned three-Test alternation with 24 wickets to advice Pakistan to a 3-0 rout, put the brakes on his rival's progress.
Opener Kevin Pietersen top denticulate with 62 not out, befitting one end complete during his 52-ball beating for his seventh T20 fifty. He hit six boundaries and a six off the aftermost brawl of the innings.
Ajmal provided Pakistan with the advance afterwards England raced to 29 by the fifth over, absolution Craig Kieswetter (17) off a lofted attempt at long-on area Shoaib Malik took the catch.
Kieswetter had hit a four and six off paceman Umar Gul in the third over.
Pakistan had Ravi Bopara bent abaft off paceman Aizaz Cheema for one and Eoin Morgan run out for nine afore Ajmal accounted for Jonny Bairstow (three), Jos Butler (seven) and Samit Patel (16).
The bout concluded England's continued bout of the United Arab Emirates area they absent the Tests but won the one-day alternation 4-0
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