Pakistan v England, first One Day International – in pictures

England have won the toss and will bat first. Misbah-ul-Haq says he would have done the same. Tim Bresnan and Jos Buttler are unfit, but England have introduced five players who weren't part of the Test series: Ravi Bopara, Craig Kieswetter, Samit Patel, Steven Finn and the real Eoin Morgan, the genius we all fell in love with. Pakistan have resisted the urge to play 11 spinners, settling instead for just four: Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik.
Pakistan Hafeez, Farhat, Shafiq, Younis, Misbah (c), Afridi, U Akmal (wk), S Malik, Ajmal, Gul, Riaz.
England Cook (c), Pietersen, Trott, Bopara, Morgan, Kieswetter (wk), Patel, Broad, Swann, Finn, Anderson.
Stat that doesn't mean much but is worth sharing anyway, England have lost nine of their last ten games in all formats, their worst run since the Australia tour of 2006-07. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

WICKET! England 57-1 (Pietersen b Afridi 14) The Afridi celebration is back, and quite right too because he stripped Pietersen naked there. It was a lovely delivery, a quicker one that curved in and then zipped away to hit the stumps. Pietersen got in an awful mess; he dragged his bat inside the line again and overbalanced as he lunged and leered at the ball. He made 14 from 36 balls. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! England 57-2 (Trott b Afridi 0) Two in two balls! This is an even better delivery: a dipping, fizzing googly from slightly wider on the crease that bowled Trott emphatically through the gate as he tried to drive. The gate was too big, in truth, but what a magnificent delivery! I knew there was something missing throughout that thrilling Test series: it was this man, the most charismatic cricketer of them all. He strikes the pose, both arms raised messianically. It's wonderful to have him back. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

28th over: England 127-2 (Cook 70, Bopara 34) Bopara steers a deliberate edge for four off the bowling of Ajmal, and then England almost lose a wicket from three consecutive deliveries. Cook, sent back, had to dive desperately just as Younis's throw went whistling past the stumps Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

36th over: England 178-2 (Cook 104, Bopara 48) Cook cuts Ajmal's first ball for four to bring up a wonderful century from only 110 balls. That's a proper hundred, full of skill, clarity of thought and moral courage. It's his third ODI century, and I'm not sure he has ever played better in this form of the game. It's also England's first century of the tour. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

37th over: England 188-2 (Cook 112, Bopara 50) Bopara chips a single down the ground to reach a good 67-ball fifty. After a horrible start he has played sensibly against the spinners. He's an interesting option at No4 in the ODI team, even if legitimate doubts still remain as to whether he'll crack it.
WICKET! England 188-3 (Bopara st U Akmal b Malik 50) The batting Powerplay strikes for Pakistan. Bopara gives Malik the charge, misses a big shot to leg and is stumped by a mile. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! England 196-4 (Morgan LBW b Ajmal 2) Morgan misses a reverse sweep at Ajmal and is given out LBW by Simon Taufel. England decide to review the decision – as much because it's Morgan as anything – but that's out. It would have hit middle and leg four fifths of the way up. Morgan is having a really rough time just now; even his beloved reverse sweep has gone against him. Photograph: Francois Steenkamp/AP

WICKET! England 221-5 (Kieswetter c Wahab b Ajmal 8) Cook plonks his front foot down and sweeps Ajmal flat and hard through square leg for four. That's a fantastic stroke, and a single from the next ball makes this the highest individual score in an ODI at Abu Dhabi. It's a good job he's playing so well, because wickets continue to fall at the other end. Kieswetter slices a huge yahoo at Ajmal straight to short third man. He made eight from 18 balls and looked exactly what he is, a batsman learning an entirely new role. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

WICKET! England 230-6 (Cook b Ajmal 137) Cook misses a predmeditated sweep at Ajmal and is bowled behind his legs. Cook played almost flawlessly for his 137, the best innings of his ODI career. As with his last one-day hundred, against Sri Lanka in the summer, I fear this will end in defeat. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! England 232-7 (Ajmal c and b Broad 1) Saeed Ajmal completes another five-for, his 97th of this tour, with a smart low catch when Broad pushes one straight back to him. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

50th over: England 260-7 (Patel 17, Swann 13) An excellent death over from Wahab Riaz is tarnished a touch when Swann edges a yorker for four. Seven from the last over, and Pakistan need 261 to win. They are favourites, although a strong England bowling attack do have something to work with, thanks largely to a mighty 137 from Alastair Cook. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 11-1 (Hafeez LBW b Finn 5) Steven Finn has struck. Hafeez played around a rapid delivery that angled in and rammed into the pads. Simon Taufel raised the finger, and although Hafeez discussed a review with Farhat he eventually decided against it. Quite right too, because that looked plumb. Photograph: Francois Steenkamp/AP

WICKET! Pakistan 11-2 (Shafiq LBW b Finn 0) Two wickets in two balls for Steven Finn! The new batsman Shafiq falls in similar circumstances to Hafeez, playing around a beautiful full delivery that snapped back off the seam to hit the pad in front of off and middle. I think Shafiq's bat got stuck behind the front pad. He thought he might be outside the line and discussed a review, but in the end he decided to walk straight off. Replays showed he was right to do so. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 27-3 (Younis c Kieswetter b Finn 15) Wonderful bowling from Steven Finn! Younis was trying to dominate him, and had driven creamily down the ground for four earlier in the over. Finn's response was a cracking delivery that jagged back sharply off the seam to take a big inside edge, and Kieswetter dived a long way to his left to take a fine two-handed catch. That's a huge wicket in the context of the game but also Finn's thrilling development. One of the world's best batsmen went after him; Finn kept his nerve and won the contest. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 40-4 (Farhat c Kieswetter b Finn 10) This is sensational bowling from Finn. You would not believe how well he is bowling. He hasn't played any serious cricket for four months and now he is destroying Pakistan. That was another lovely delivery: a perfect line to ensure the left-handed Farhat had to play, and with just enough seam movement to take the edge on its way through to Kieswetter. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 53-5 (Misbah LBW b Patel 14) Misbah falls LBW yet again. This was an Andrex-soft dismissal; he pushed outside the line of a delivery from around the wicket that went straight on to hit the pad. "Inside edge" said Aamir Sohail on commentary straight away, but the finger went up and Misbah trudged off. There was no inside edge and he was plumb. He just missed a straight one. Photograph: Francois Steenkamp/AP

WICKET! Pakistan 68-6 (Shoaib Malik c Pietersen b Patel 7) What a disgusting dismissal. Pure filth. Samit Patel sends down a low full toss, and Malik swings at the ball like he wants to maim it. All he succeeds in doing is clunking it miserably to mid on, where Pietersen takes a comfortable catch. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 96-7 (U Akmal st Kieswetter b Swann 22) That should be the end of the match Umar Akmal pushed forward defensively at a fine slider that went past the outside edge. In doing so he dragged his back foot out of the crease, and Kieswetter had the stumps off in a flash. The umpire didn't even bother to go upstairs. That was a timely wicket for Swann, especially as Afridi had been dropped off the previous delivery by the backpedalling Patel at long on. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 109-8 (Afridi c Swann b Patel 28) Having lived by the long handle, Afridi dies by the long handle. He blasted Patel for two off-side boundaries but then, two balls later, hammered one straight to Swann at long off. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 113-9 (Gul LBW b Swann 2) Umar Gul has gone this time. He pushed defensively outside the line of another big-spinning delivery and was given out LBW by Ahsan Raza. Gul reviewed it, but replays showed the point of impact was 'umpire's call' and that the ball was hitting the stumps. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

WICKET! Pakistan 130 all out (Ajmal c Cook b Broad 5). ENGLAND WIN BY 130 RUNS! The captain Alastair Cook finishes the match with a good running catch when Ajmal slogs Broad high in the air. England have thrashed Pakistan by 130 runs, thanks largely to career-best performances from Cook and Steven Finn. Don't underestimate how good a win this is; it's England's second biggest ODI win overseas when they have batted first. The world feels like a better place once more. Photograph: Francois Steenkamp/AP