Back to earth

Shadab Khan. Coetzer’s entertaining innings of 31 off 18 balls ended as he went for a second six but was caught at long on by Asif Ali.

It was always going to be difficult for Calum Macleod to live up to Sunday’s heroic 140 not out and, when he was trapped lbw by Shadab for 12, the match was beginning to drift away. The second 50 took four more overs than the first as Scotland limped past 100 at the end of the 14th and were well behind the rate. Dylan Budge, who had made his ODI debut on Sunday, tried to get things moving on his internationbow but, after

l smacking a couple of maximums, the 22-year-old Grange batsman misjudged one from Amir and was caught by Faheem Ashraf at long on. With 80 needed from the final three overs the cause was long lost, but Cross and, in particular Leask, showed some crowd-pleasing defiance in the final knockings with some lovely clean hitting to take Scotland to 150. Cross went next ball, though, for 13 off Hasin as Malik took a routine catch at long on. Scotland needed only the 53 off the final over but managed only the four as the match petered out.