Pakistan beat England as PM and Punjab CM congratulate team

Pakistan's cricket team beat England in the triangular series, drawing congratulatory messages from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan and Aaj News.

APP reported that Maryam Nawaz, in a message issued from Lahore on October 26, congratulated the national side on the victory and expressed pleasure at the performances of captain Shaheen Afridi and Shadab Khan. She said the result had demonstrated that collective effort and unity lead to success, and that people who work together with mutual cooperation achieve their objectives.

Aaj News reported that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also congratulated the team. The outlet's bulletin on the win named Shadab Khan and Haris alongside the prime minister's message.

The reports available did not give the venue of the match, the margin of victory, the third team in the series or the current standings. APP's dispatch was issued as a congratulatory message from the chief minister and carried no scorecard, and no date for the team's next fixture appeared in the material.

Congratulatory messages from the prime minister and from provincial chief ministers are routine after victories by national teams, and the state news agency regularly carries them.

The Hindustan Times, an Indian outlet, carried a comment piece on what it called Shadab Khan's heroics, arguing that his performance could offer inspiration to Pakistan's older players. The item was a column rather than a match report and gave no further detail of the result.

A Business Recorder item listed alongside the same coverage, headed "CCD Punjab - The journey of outstanding performance continues", did not describe the match.

The result itself was carried by the outlets without a full match report, leaving the details of how Pakistan won (the target, the wickets and the decisive passage of play) unconfirmed in the material available to this newspaper.