England had nine wickets down. Pakistan needed 88 more runs. The Gaddafi Stadium crowd had gone quiet. Every over that ticked by reduced the probability of a Pakistan win. Then Haris Rauf walked in as last man. Shadab Khan looked at him. They had 88 runs to make together, or Pakistan were going to lose. What happened next is something Lahore will be talking about for years.
The Result Of Pakistan vs England Game
Pakistan beat England by one wicket in the fourth match of the ODI tri-series at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on October 25, 2026. England posted 241 all out from 46.4 overs. Pakistan chased 242 for 9 in 47.1 overs. They needed 88 runs from the last wicket. They got them. Pakistan won with 17 balls remaining.
England’s Innings: 241 All Out
England batted first after winning the toss. Harry Brook and Joe Root provided England’s backbone across the middle innings. Phil Salt gave them the positive start at the top that their batting plans always require.
Razaullah was Pakistan’s standout bowler. He took the wickets of Will Jacks, caught and bowled for 13, and Liam Dawson, caught by Shadab Khan for 5. His accuracy across his ten overs restricted England when they were attempting to accelerate. Shadab Khan bowled seven overs for 31 runs without a wicket but his economy contributed to England being bowled out for 241 rather than posting the 280-plus they would have targeted on this surface.
England were dismissed in the 47th over. 241 was a below-par total for a side with their batting depth. The surface offered more than England’s batters produced. But 242 is not a small total to chase when Pakistan lost wickets consistently throughout their innings.
Pakistan’s Chase: The Collapse That Changed Everything
Pakistan’s chase began with positive intent. The top order moved the score along but wickets fell at regular intervals. By the drinks break Pakistan were 122 for 7 in the 28th over with Shadab Khan on 13. They needed 120 more runs from 22 overs with three wickets in hand.
Shaheen Shah Afridi batted briefly. Razaullah came and went. One by one the lower order fell. Each wicket tightened England’s grip on a match they should have won comfortably. When the ninth wicket fell, Pakistan were 154 for 9 in the 34th over. Shadab was 22 not out. Haris Rauf was the last man in. Pakistan needed 88 runs. England needed one wicket.
Shadab Khan’s 113: The Innings That Defined the Match
Shadab Khan had reached his fifty off 52 balls when Pakistan were still theoretically in the chase but practically in trouble. The fifty came with seven fours and one six. He had been batting with the tail since the 28th over, protecting the lower-order batters while building the score.
His partnership with Haris Rauf for the last wicket was extraordinary in context. Pakistan needed 88 from the moment Rauf arrived. They made them. Rauf contributed 7 not out from 18 balls, rotating strike and surviving deliveries with a composure that last-wicket partnerships in such high-pressure scenarios rarely produce.
Shadab brought up his century off 91 balls with eleven fours and four sixes. The roar from the Gaddafi Stadium crowd as he raised his bat was one of the great individual moments at that ground in recent memory. He completed 113 off 96 balls before Haris Rauf hit the winning boundary off Crocombe in the final over with 17 balls remaining.
This was Shadab Khan’s first century in any format for Pakistan. He was born on October 4, 1998 in Mianwali. He turned 28 years old three weeks ago. He has waited twenty-eight years for a first hundred in Pakistan colours. It came at Gaddafi Stadium in a match Pakistan had no right to win from 154 for 9.
The Last-Wicket Record Partnership
Shadab Khan and Haris Rauf added 89 runs for the tenth wicket. That is a record last-wicket ODI partnership for Pakistan against England.
The stand was built over 48 balls. Shadab scored 91 of those 89 runs. Rauf contributed the remaining runs through ones and a boundary while surviving balls that could have ended the match at any moment. The composure both players showed with England needing one wicket to win for 13 overs deserves specific recognition.
How England Let It Slip
England had nine wickets down and needed just one more dismissal to win the match. They had multiple quality bowlers available. Brook had options. He used them. But Shadab proved impossible to dismiss.
Gus Atkinson missed his yorker twice in the final over, sending deliveries wide outside off that Shadab drove for four. Sam Curran bowled eight overs for 32 runs without a wicket. The death bowling that failed England against Pakistan on October 20 and against Sri Lanka on October 22 failed them again in Lahore. Three matches in this tournament. Three times England’s bowling in the final ten overs did not hold its nerve.
What This Result Means for the Tri-Series
Pakistan win the match and confirm their tri-series final appearance in the most dramatic fashion possible. Their record now reads three wins from three matches. They face whoever qualifies from Sri Lanka and England in the remaining matches.
England’s situation is now critical. They have zero points from three matches. They need to win both their remaining group matches against Sri Lanka and against Pakistan to have any mathematical chance of reaching the final. The captaincy structure that Shaheen has been building through this tri-series and what this extraordinary finish means for Pakistan’s ODI momentum heading into the 2027 World Cup cycle is explored in our piece on Pakistan cricket team captaincy past and future.
Shadab’s Career in Context
Shadab Khan has been one of Pakistan’s most important allrounders for nearly a decade. He made his international debut in 2017. He has taken wickets at every level of the game for Pakistan across Tests, ODIs, and T20Is. He scored 173 runs in eight innings in PSL 2026 at a strike rate of 141.80 while taking 17 wickets at an average of 14.47.
What he had never done before today was score a century for Pakistan in any format. That absence from his record was always the one thing people pointed to when discussing his batting credentials. His 113 not out at Gaddafi Stadium removes that entirely. It comes in the most high-pressure context imaginable. Last man in partner. Eighty-eight needed. One wicket away from defeat. The tradition of Pakistan producing allround performances that define bilateral series is explored in our piece on the best cricket players in Pakistan cricket history.
Conclusion
Shadab Khan scored 113 not out off 96 balls at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. He arrived at the crease with Pakistan needing 120 from three wickets. He watched eight wickets fall around him. He added 89 for the last wicket with Haris Rauf. Pakistan beat England by one wicket to win three from three in the ODI tri-series. England are winless from three matches. Shadab Khan scored his first century in any format for Pakistan. He did it chasing 242 with a last-wicket partner at the other end. The Gaddafi Stadium crowd will remember October 25, 2026 for a very long time.
