Alex Hales announced his return to international cricket after more than three years with a match-winning fifty to remind England of what they had been missing.
Hales struck 53 from 40 balls in England’s first match in Pakistan for 17 years to take the biggest bite out of their run chase, but Yorkshire’s Harry Brook was perhaps even more eye-catching with his knock of 42 not out from just 25 balls.
It was Brook who hit the winning runs to overhaul Pakistan’s 158-7 and secure the win by six wickets with four balls to spare, but in truth it could have been settled well before the last over.
