A welcome boundary for Babar Azam. It's full and wide from Will O'Rourke and a crunching square drive from the Pakistan opener whistles away through the point region for four.

Babar, incidentally, has just been overtaken as the top ranked ODI batter by India's Shubman Gill

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

A little bit of dew, it's getting to that time of night.

There's something on every game and that's why it's so great - it's the knockouts from the start.

These two in the middle are really struggling.

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Babar Azam has seen off a maiden over from Matt Henry. The run rate is creeping up for Pakistan after this rather pedestrian start from the tournament hosts.

Mohammad Rizwan is spitting feathers here.

He half pulls out of the final ball of Will O'Rouke's third over because of movement behind the bowler's arm again. The Pakistan captain then has a stern word with the umpires.

That beautiful cover drive was gorgeous to watch but Pakistan's worm is struggling to get off the ground.

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Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

That was timed to perfection. Fuller from Matt Henry and it was there to be driven, it was driven perfectly.

Babar Azam has nailed it.

Overall, Pakistan have been average. There's been a few balls that they've not been able to get away.

Oh Babar Azam, that is wonderous.

A classical drive with perfect balance, timing and poise from the Pakistan opener as he dispatches the penultimate ball of Matt Henry's over for four.

Saud Shakeel hogged a fair bit of the strike. 19 balls for six runs.

Back to Matt Henry.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

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It was well bowled going across the left-hander, Saud Shakeel.

Shakeel was thinking he had to get on with it as he's faced a lot of dot balls.

Matt Henry had to dive forward and Shakeel's painful innings comes to an end.

Every time Shakeel connected with the ball the bat was twisting in his hand.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

New Zealand's bowling has that question mark on it.

They have an inexperienced bowling attack as they've lost Lockie Ferguson.

A tasty punch from Saud Shakeel off Matt Henry adds a couple more runs to the total. A calm and composed start from Pakistan. No signs they are going to do any daft early on in pursuit of this target.

A brief delay with some gripes from Pakistan opener Saud Shakeel about movement behind Will O'Rourke as he attempts to bowl. The Kiwi seamer beats the outside edge of Saud's edge couple of times.

The final ball of the over takes the edge of Saud's bat but the left-handed opener plays it with relatively soft hands and it races down to third.

Mark Pettman: Re the bespectacled cricketers - surely the great Pakistan batsman of the 70s and 80s - Zaheer Abbas. Pure class. He’d do well on that Karachi wicket.

Benjamin Hillier: Devon Malcolm wore specs early on in his Test career, I seem to .

100jnar: Surely have to include Clive Lloyd and Anil Kumble in any bespectacled XI?

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

You have got to adapt to what happens. I thought they would go old school with Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan.

Pakistan need to take confidence in the chase they had against South Africa.

They will know they don't have to go crash, bang, wallop from the off.

Saud Shakeel attempts to work a ball back of a length from Matt Henry, but an edge takes it spiralling off in the direction of point. However, it falls safe.

Saud clips the ball through mid-wicket to get off the mark from Henry's fourth delivery and get Pakistan up and running.

Right, the players are back out on the field.

Matt Henry is at the top of his mark with one slip in place.

Saud Shakeel has been promoted from number three to open in place of Fakhar Zaman, and he's on strike for the first ball of Pakistan's reply.

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Our very own Matthew Henry is out in Pakistan for this tournament and yesterday he wrote about how England need a good Champions Trophy to restore the feelgood factor to the nation's cricket fans after a difficult winter.

Matthew wrote: "Amid talk of golf and Sydney beach walks, English cricket is in danger of developing an image problem.

"ers' resolve has been tested - an Ashes defeat, plus losses in Pakistan, West Indies and India mean an impressive victory in New Zealand has been lost in the minds of many.

"The Champions Trophy may feel like a tournament from a bygone age – one from before T20 was king – but for England these are an important three weeks, before the whites return for era-defining series against India and then Australia."

Read more here.