Stats from England vs Pakistan 1st ODI: Pakistan register 50th win against England

Pakistan won the 1st ODI comfortably

Mohammad Hafeez’s unbeaten century secured a comfortable six-wicket win for Pakistan in the first ODI against England in Abu Dhabi. The visitors, who won the toss and chose to bat, were bundled out for 216. The hosts had a little wobble at the start, but eventually chased down the total with 6.2 overs to spare to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

Here are the significant stats from the match:

49 – Number of wins Pakistan had against England in all international cricket matches before this win. Today was their 50th such victory. Pakistan have played 161 International games against England and lost 71.

1^st – victory for Pakistan against England in ODIs after losing all previous 5 encounters. Pakistan lost the last series against England by 4-0 in 2012 and had also lost a match in the series before that in 2010.

0.70 – Pakistan’s win/loss ratio in all international games against England is 3rd worst against any team after 0.57 against Australia and 0.50 against South Africa.

6000 – runs Shoaib Malik crossed in ODIs in this match. He was 10 runs short before the start of this match. He has now 6016 runs from 205 ODI innings with an average of 34.57.

49 – players now in ODIs who have accumulated more than 6000 runs. Shoaib Malik became the 49th player to do so. He is the 9th Pakistani batsman to reach 6000 mark.

7240 – runs Younis Khan scored in his ODI career with an average of 31.34. It was his last ODI game as he has announced his retirement. He played 264 ODI matches and struck 7 centuries and 48 half-centuries.

9 – runs scored by Younis Khan in his last ODI game, against England today. Interestingly, Younis had scored exactly 9 runs in his first game against England back in 2001 at Birmingham. Today he struck 2 fours and a single which is exactly what he did in that innings.

10.8 – the batting average of Azhar Ali in all international matches since the start of October scoring 54 in 5 innings. Prior to that and since his return, Azhar Ali averaged 62.89 in Tests and ODIs. He scored 1195 runs in 19 international innings during this period.

133 – runs gathered by Eoin Morgan and James Taylor for 4th wicket- which is the 2nd highest 4th wicket partnership for English team against Pakistan.

1 – number of instances in the entire ODI history prior to this game when England made a 100 plus runs partnership after losing first 3 wickets for 14 or fewer runs. Morgan-Taylor 133-run stand was 2nd such instance in English ODI history, with the other one also involving Morgan when he put on 104 runs with Carberry after England, vs Australia, had lost 3 wickets for 8 runs.

11 – Centuries Mohammad Hafeez now has to his name in One Day Internationals- third most for a Pakistani player after Saeed Anwar’s 20 and Mohammad Yousuf’s 15. He surpassed Ijaz Ahmad and Inzamam-ul-Haq both of whom had 10.

0 – Instance prior to today’s game, when Pakistan have put on a 100 plus 5th-wicket partnership against England in ODIs. Hafeez and Babar Azam gathered 106* runs for 5th wicket in this game, thus going past 92 runs Imran-Miandad partnership which they made way back in 1987.

20 – months since Pakistan have put on a 100 plus partnership for 5th wicket. Last time, it was Fawad Alam and Umar Akmal who scored 115 runs for 5th wicket vs Sri Lanka in Asia Cup in March 2014.

57.75 – the accumulative batting average with which Hafeez has scored runs in ODIs and Tests since he was banned from bowling in International games. He has now scored 693 in 13 such innings since his bowling ban. Overall in his ODI and Test career, he collectively averages 35.14 with bat.