2/22/2012

Kevin Pietersen ton guided England to series clean sweep

Kevin Pietersen scored the his career-best 130 runs to earn his side - a 4-0 whitewash against Pakistan.
England were chasing a target of 238 runs had 4 wickets down for 68 runs before a 109 runs partnership between Pietersen and Kieswetter changed the course of the match. After Kieswetter was ran out, Pietersen hit hard in his 59 runs stand with Samit Patel until he was last out.
Pietersen became the second England batsman in the series, following captain Alastair Cook, to hit consecutive hundreds.
Asad Shafiq (65) and Azhar Ali (58) had earlier recovered Pakistan recovered from earlty fall of Mohammad Hafeez with just one run on the board. Shafiq and Ali found boundaries, and strike rotation, easy in their 2nd  wicket partnership of 111 but after their departure Pakistan's performance became disappointing losing their last six wickets for just 35 runs.
Dernbach was amazing with bowl as he took 4 wickets. Hafeez was caught on just his 2nd ball before he dismissed the setteled batsmen Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq (46).

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