Watch the highlights of England vs Pakistan 1st ODI 1992 - Pakistan tour of England (Texaco Trophy) 3-match one-day international series of the 1st ODI match played between Pakistan and England at Lord's, London in 20th May 1992.
Half-centuries from Robin Smith, Alec Stewart and Allan Lamb before Derek Pringle's four-wicket haul helped to England resounding 79-run victory over world champions Pakistan and England taje a 1-0 lead to avenges World Cup loss against Pakistan in the first ODI.
England scored 278-6 in 55 overs with top scorer by Robin Smith cracked a 85 off 117-balls including 7-fours.
Allan Lamb struck 60 off 70-balls including 5-fours, Alec Stewart hit 50 off 69-balls included 4-fours and Neil Fairbrother scored 25 off 28-balls contained 2-fours.
Pakistan best bowler by Aaqib Javed picked up 3-wickets, Naved Anjum took 2-wickets and one for Wasim Akram.
Pakistan bowled out for 199 in 54.2 overs with top scorer by Asif Mujtaba cracked a 52 off 81-balls including two boundaries.
Aamer Sohail struck 36 off 68-balls including 3-fours, Wasim Akram scored 34 off 61-balls included two-fours and Saleem Malik hit 24 off 38-balls contained 4-fours.
England best bowler by Derek Pringle claimed a 4-wickets for 42-runs in 11-overs including a maiden, Graeme Hick captured 2-wickets for 7-runs in 3.2-overs, Jan Botham took 2-wickets and one for Richard Illingworth.
Robin Smith named Player of the match for his brilliant batting performance to scored a 85 off 117-balls including 7-fours.
This match reported by REUTERS via The Canberra Times
Graham Gooch's seasoned England side scored a satisfying 79-run victory over World Cup champions Pakistan in the first one-day international on Wednesday before a capacity sun-drenched crowd at Lord's.
Aggressive, intelligent batting from Robin Smith and Allan Lamb, who scored 85 and 60 respectively. followed by disciplined bowling and crisp fielding enabled England to reverse the result of the World Cup final staged eight weeks ago.
A third-wicket partnership of 98 between the South African-born pair of Smith and Lamb laid the foundations of England's 6-278 from their 55 overs.
Then the England seamers took a tight grip on the match, dismissing Pakistan for 199 in the final over.
The tension, always evident between the two teams in recent years, surfaced again when England was convinced Pakistan opener Aamir Sohail had been caught at slip by lan Botham.
Sohail stood his ground, rubbing his shoulder vigorously although the ball had appeared to brush his arm.
Umpire David Shepherd was unmoved but found himself the target of an untypically animated Gooch at the end of an impressive over from paceman Chris Lewis.
Gooch uttered some terse words to Shepherd and appeared to indicate that the ball had hit Sohail's hand.
When the Pakistani left-hander was eventually dismissed, run out for 36 by some distance after a perfect boundary throw from Phillip DeFreitas, the England players' delight was all too evident and Botham shook his fist angrily as Sohail walked slowly from the crease.
In the long term there might be little significance in the result of these opening shots of what promises to be a torrid campaign. For the first time in an English season two opponents will meet each other on 10 separate
occasions.
But Gooch, in what might be his last year as national captain, will have taken particular satisfaction from the performances of Lamb in particular and his middle-order batsmen in general.
Lamb, 38 next month, was thought lucky to retain his place. However, Gooch, who places great store on loyalty and team spirit, insisted on retaining as many members of his World Cup squad as possible and Lamb duly repaid his faith with an innings full of spirit and character.
After Javed Miandad had asked England to bat on a benign track, Alec Stewart scored his fifth one-day half-century and Smith and Lamb effectively neutralised the threat of Mushtaq Ahmed.
Mushtaq pushed the ball through briskly and several times beat both. batsmen as they pushed down the wrong line.
A series of swift singles and some brutal cover drives from Smith kept the little leg-spinner at bay and after spells at both ends he finished wicketless, conceding 56 runs in his 11 overs.
Smith was eventually dismissed after facing 117 balls and hit- ting seven boundaries. Lamb followed soon after, having faced 70 balls.
Pakistan, who had looked somewhat lacklustre in the field, made a disastrous start when Derek Pringle caught and bowled Rameez Raja without a run on the board.
Salim Malik sparkled briefly, hit- ting four glorious boundaries. When he was out for 24 the middle order quickly crumbled.
Asif Mujtaba (52) and Wasim Akram (34) mounted a belligerent counter-attack with a sixth-wicket partnership of 83 in 20 overs but the match was out of Pakistan's reach.
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