Pakistan v England

By Crafty Stan

1st Twenty20 International, Friday 19th Feb 2009 14:00 GMT

In the heat of Dubai, the World T20 champions will take on a resurgent England side looking to improve its shortest format record.

This Pakistan side comes into the two game series beaten up severely by the Aussies who won nine out of nine against them in all competitions on home soil and without any real leadership they will surely come here with a severe lack of confidence.

England come in on the back of an extremely impressive tour of South Africa where they drew both the Test and T20 series’ and won the ODI series. In stark contrast to the Pakistan team, England should be brimming with confidence right now.

In terms of very recent form both sides lost to their 'A' teams, England's being fairly unlucky two boundaries off the final two balls sneaking the Lions home whereas Pakistan were comprehensively beaten.This is possibly the best bet I have seen in a little while on the International Twenty20 Cricket Calendar as England should be at worst a pickum for this game and probably should be favourites. The 2.1 with Bwin is a steal.

Stuart Broad is dangerous in all facets of the game and at 15.0 he is a tiny shade of value for man of the match with Bet365 too I think.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

4 points on England @ 2.1 (Bwin)

0.5 Points on S.Broad Man of the Match @ 15 (Bet365)

Crafty Stan