Cardiff, In the first semi final of ICC Champions Trophy, Pakistan vs England will play the match on 14 June. Both the teams of England vs Pakistan will play their first semi final at Cardiff and this will be the first chance after the 1992 world cup that both the teams of Pakistan v England will play in the knock out match.
The performance of Pakistani cricket team is staggering in the champion trophy and Pakistan lost its first match against India on 04 June. Then Pakistan won the second match against South Africa due to its best bowling and fielding. Then Pakistan beat Sri Lanka and qualified for the semi final of this event. Now Pakistan will play the semi final match against England and this team is in terrific form and it has won all its league matches against Australia, Bangladesh and New Zealand.
Pakistan and England played 14 matches recently in which England won 12 matches and Pakistan won the last one day international match in last September in Cardiff in which Pakistan won the match in the captaincy of Sarfaraz Ahmed and they got 303 runs target.
Sarfaraz Ahmed is worried about the inconsistency of the batting and he wanted to continue the series of his good performance and wants to win the matches. In the match against Sri Lanka, Pakistan won the match but Pakistani middle order batting line showed very poor performance. Fakhar Zaman and Azhar Ali gave good opening but the middle order batsmen could not know to maintain the run rate and they threw their wickets very easily and Sri Lanka did not feel any trouble to get them out. If the batsmen repeat this performance in the match against England, then the result will not come in favor of Pakistan. They will have to play the positive cricket in the first semi final otherwise England will snatch the match from the clutches of Pakistani players. England is hopeful with their batting performance and they will get the target of the winning in the semi final and reach to the final of the event.