Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf has told how his belief in the chase, and one insistent call for a review, kept Pakistan alive in Sunday’s dramatic one-wicket win over England in Lahore. Haris Rauf Shadab review is now the moment fans will remember from a match that looked lost, then turned in the space of a few balls at Gaddafi Stadium.
Speaking to PCB Digital after the win, Haris said he had believed from the start that Pakistan could win the match. In the closing stages, he told Shadab Khan that he would finish the match himself. Shadab, who struck an unbeaten 113 off 96 balls, said Haris insisted that he take a review at the point when the match seemed over.
Shadab had been given out leg-before-wicket on 97, with Pakistan still needing runs to win. He said he had not realised the ball had taken an inside edge off his bat. Haris pushed him to review the decision, and the review overturned the call. Shadab stayed at the crease, went on to his maiden international century, and finished the chase with Haris at the other end.
Haris Rauf Shadab review that changed the match
The moment carried extra drama because the match had appeared to end. England players had started to shake hands, and the broadcast had shown England as winners, before the third umpire looked at the footage and found the inside edge. The decision gave Shadab a second chance, and he used it to complete one of the great late-order innings in Pakistan’s one-day history.
Shadab said he had been deeply disappointed when the finger went up. He also said he was pleased to repay the confidence shown in him by the selectors and the team management. The innings was his first century in international cricket, and it came at a point when Pakistan had lost nine wickets and seemed out of the game.
Haris praised the innings in plain terms. He called Shadab’s batting world-class, and he said the win was a great moment of happiness for the people of Pakistan. Haris himself stayed unbeaten on seven off 19 balls, and he struck the winning boundary that sealed the result.
A record stand at the end of the chase
Pakistan had slumped to 154 for nine while chasing England’s 242. Shadab and Haris then put on an unbeaten 89-run stand for the last wicket, the highest tenth-wicket stand in a successful men’s one-day chase. The previous record was 64 runs, set by West Indies players Deryck Murray and Andy Roberts against Pakistan in 1975.
Shadab also set a record for the highest individual one-day score by a batter at number eight or lower. His 113 off 96 balls included the calm batting needed at the end of a chase, when one mistake would have ended the match. Haris gave him steady support, facing 19 balls for his seven runs and keeping the strike moving when it mattered.
The win took Pakistan to 243 for nine in 47.1 overs, with 17 balls left. It also sealed Pakistan’s place in the tri-series final, after three straight wins in the tournament. The result mattered beyond the points, because it showed a side that could win from a position where most teams would have folded.
Why the win matters for the final
Pakistan now play Sri Lanka in Lahore on Tuesday, October 27, before the final on October 31 at the same ground. The team has already qualified, so the Sri Lanka match is a chance to test combinations.
The squad has changed since Sunday’s win. Saim Ayub has been released from the ODI squad at his own request, with Sahibzada Farhan named as his replacement, after Saim scored 21 runs in three matches. That change puts fresh pressure on the top order, and it makes the lower-order fight shown by Shadab and Haris even more valuable.
For Shadab, the innings showed he can turn talent with the bat into a match-winning score at the highest level. For Haris, the match showed the presence of mind to demand a review when his partner had already accepted the decision.
