Back-to-back comprehensive wins for England, would you believe it! Unfortunately for them it's come too late in the piece as the defending champions bow out of the tournament in seventh place. The batting, which has underperformed right through, fired collectively - more or less - today. Bairstow, Root, Stokes got fifties, and a late burst towards the end propelled them to 337 which was a formidable score on a low, slow pitch that was taking plenty of turn. Once Fakhar got out cheaply against the new ball, Pakistan were facing an uphill task. Pakistan came in here facing an unrealistic NRR challenge to make it for the semis, and eventually couldn't even put on much of a contest at all. Willey, in his final international game, was superb with the new ball, and then the spin twins - Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali - followed up with lovely spells on a pitch that assisted them.




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