One thing is certain - English cricket owes Pakistan a debt for helping them keep the lights on, arriving to help as they did in the guts of the pandemic in the UK. ![]() Since that tour the two sides have duked it out in England and the UAE, the storied rivalry between them has bubbled along, memorable for reasons both on and off the pitch. Back in 2005, Duncan Fletcher’s England squad lost their Ashes glow under the South-Asian sun - succumbing in both the three Test series (2-0) and the following five match ODI series (3-2). James Anderson is, inevitably, the only player from that series still plying his trade and he hasn’t sent down an international white ball in anger since 2015. Today, England return, belatedly, after seventeen long years. As the players head off the dew sopped outfield and thoughts turn to flying home for Christmas, none of them were to know that they would be the last England men’s cricket side to play in Pakistan for nearly two decades. A consolation ODI victory chalked up thanks to a match winning 4-48 by a 23 year old slippery seam bowler called James Anderson. England’s weary cricketers trudge off the field under the misty haze of the Rawalpindi floodlights.
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