Debutant Aamer Jamal's final over heroics helps Pakistan beat England by 6 runs

Pakistan clinched another crucial victory in the fifth T20I (PC: Twitter)

Pakistan survived another humdinger in the ongoing 7-match T20I series against England as their bowling-unit kept their nerves and successfully defended 145 in the 5th game at Lahore on Wednesday night.

With 15 needed in the final over, debutant seamer Aamer Jamal showed incredible composure despite being hit for a six by a rampaging Moeen Ali (51* off 37) to close the game off for Pakistan.

Moeen proved to be the lone hero for England, but eventually, the underwhelming returns from his partners caught up with the stand-in skipper.

Chasing 146, England got off to a disastrous start as they lost opener Alex Hales to Mohammad Nawaz (1-9 in 2) in the very first over.

The visitors could never really recover from that as star pacer Haris Rauf removed Phil Salt before Wasim Jnr knocked over Ben Duckett to leave England reeling at 54/4 after 9.

Dawid Malan (36 off 35) woes again spin continued and his demise was eventually written by Iftikhar Ahmed, who trapped the southpaw plumb in front.

At 62-5, it looked done and dusted for England but Moeen's calculative assault kept them in the game, and when he smashed Jamal for a 6 to reduce the equation to 8 off 3, a sensational heist looked in the offing for the all-rounder.

However, it was not to be as young Jamal held his nerves to help Pakistan get a jailbreak and a 3-2 lead.