England on Tuesday beat Pakistan by three wickets in the third Twenty20 international cricket match to win the three-match series 2-1. England won the game, which was played at the Old Trafford Stadium, with two balls to spare.

Set 155 for victory, England slumped to 112-4 after a top-order collapse against spin.

England opener Jason Roy, the player of the match, got the chase off to a brisk start with a dashing 64.

Liam Livingstone, the player of the series after scoring England’s fastest T20 hundred in the opener at Trent Bridge, struck one six and then holed out before Chris Jordan struck the winning runs in the last over.

Roy took four boundaries off Shaheen Shah Afridi’s first over and swept spinner Imad Wasim for six.

Fellow opener Jos Buttler was well caught in the deep by Pakistan captain Babar Azam off leg-spinner Shadab Khan for a scratchy 21.

But the hosts kept losing wickets.

Eoin Morgan, who returned as the England captain, score a brisk 21 but could not guide his side past the finish line. Chris Jordan saw England home.

Earlier, leg-spinner Adil Rashid took a Twenty20 international best 4-35 as Pakistan were held to 154-6, with Mohammad Rizwan batting through the innings for 76 not out.

Spin proved Pakistan’s undoing for the second match in a row, with off-spinner Moeen taking 1-19 from his four overs in addition to Rashid’s haul.

Rashid took the first three wickets to fall, a haul that included having Azam stumped for just 11 by wicketkeeper Buttler when the star batsman misread a googly.

Moeen crowned a spell where he did not concede a boundary by having Fakhar Zaman lbw for 24.

Rashid took a wicket with his last delivery when Shadab Khan holed out, with Rizwan not seeing enough of the strike after completing a 38-ball fifty featuring two sixes.