Marcus Trescothick wins the toss in Karachi and opts to field in the third one-day international of the series Pakistan make a promising start but are left on 84-2 soon after Liam Plunkett enters the England attack Opener Kamran Akmal continues to pile on the runs and safely guides the hosts past the 150 mark Akmal completes his second successive century but finally falls off a Collingwood delivery for 109 Smart fielding from England ensures Mohammad Yousuf is run out for 68 - the same fate as Shahid Afridi Abdul Razzaq smashes three sixes on his way to a quickfire 50 to set England their record one-day target Trescothick and Matt Prior begin to chase the daunting total but Prior is soon run out sprinting for a single Naved-ul-Hasan is delighted after removing Trescothick and Vikram Solanki with England stuck on 40 Andrew Strauss is brought to his knees by Mohammad Sami's rifled yorker, reducing England to 79-4 England's remote hopes of a result evaporate further after Andrew Flintoff is sent packing for 36 Afridi and Shoaib Malik share out the rest of the wickets to send England crashing to a 165-run defeat
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