Pakistan vs England 1st T20I match on Friday, February 19, 2010.

Venue: Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium, Dubai

Time: 14:00 GMT

Teams:

Pakistan: Imran Nazir, Imran Farhat, Khalid Latif, Shoaib Malik(c), Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Abdul Razzaq, Sarfraz Ahmed(w), Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Talha, Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz

England: Joe Denly, Matt Prior(w), Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood(c), Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Tim Bresnan, Ryan Sidebottom, Alastair Cook, Liam Plunkett, Ajmal Shahzad, James Tredwell.

Teams Report:

Now a days Dubai is slowly becoming a hub for the Cricket with ICC Head Quarters and special stadiums.  Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium is one of the best stadium in the world. It has a unique lighting system where the lights are placed on the roof to create a ‘Ring of Fire’ like view instead of the usual towers.

The pitch in this stadium is dry wicket and helps for the batsman and spinners. Ten T20 matches played so far in this stadium. All the first batting teams scored more than 150 runs.

Pakistan team is now in confusions, controversies with the board as well as in the team.

After the utter flap performance in the australia tour, pakistan is now preparing for the two T20I’s against the England. Though pakistan is having the top class players, but they are not playing well due to lack of concerntration.

Shoaib Malik, captain of pakistan cricket telling that they learned lessons from the mistakes. But pakistan is not playing well after the T20 World Cup. Main problem is Afridi’s ban, who is very helpful in the T20’s.

English Team Engalnd is now looking afresh. Paul Collingwood leading the England team in the T20 matches. England team is now full of youngsters who are ready to show their good performance. England have the good paltform to try out different combinations, which is helpful in the coming World Twenty20 in the Caribbean this April. Also England is having the T20 specialist batsmans like Luke Wright, Eoin Morgan, Joe Denly and Tim Bresnan have an good opportunity to showcase their talents while experienced players like Pietersen, Cook and Collingwood are also in the strong batting lineup.