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Abu Dhabi: Alastair Cook became the first England captain to score successive one-day international centuries as his team beat Pakistan by 20 runs in Abu Dhabi.
Cook was dropped on 28 but anchored the innings again in calm fashion with 10 fours in 102 from 121 balls as England moved 2-0 up in the four-match series.
Ravi Bopara added 58 in England's 250-4 after Cook again elected to bat first.
Imran Farhat and Misbah-ul-Haq both hit 47 for Pakistan but Steven Finn took 4-34 as they were all out after 49 overs.
And so after the disappointment of the Test series whitewash England's resurgence in ODI matches continues with Cook authoritative at the helm with the bat and when marshalling the troops.
The 27-year-old left-hander offered further proof that a genuine opener playing authentic strokes can succeed in limited-overs matches and was able to score at a good pace on a sluggish surface, part of which was the strip used for the second Test when England collapsed to 72 all out.
He got off the mark in the fourth over with a sumptuous back foot drive for four and but was reprieved by makeshift wicketkeeper Umar Akmal, who spilled a routine edged cut shot up to the wicket, and was guilty of several further errors.
Cook was the more fluent in an opening stand of 67 with Kevin Pietersen, who after shuffling around in his crease to little effect, struck consecutive drives to the boundary in more conventional fashion, but departed to spin for the sixth time in seven international innings on the tour.
Saaed Ajmal was introduced in the 15th over and the bowling powerplay was taken, the earliest opportunity at which it may now be implemented, and from round the wicket turned his third delivery in to trap Pietersen plumb lbw for 26.
Cook and Trott, not the ideal pairing in the middle of an ODI innings for some England followers, recorded the 100 in the 23rd over and added 49 before Trott got a thin edge trying to force a flat-footed drive.
Another sparse afternoon crowd was given little in the way of genuine excitement in the middle overs as both teams appeared content with a steady trickle of runs.
England accumulated 38 without loss in the batting powerplay, so often an area of dramatic failure, a stylish drive to the cover boundary from Bopara bringing up the fifty partnership from 60 balls.
Brief scores
England 250 for 4 (Cook 102, Bopara 58)
Pakistan 230 (Misbah 47, Finn 4-34)
Result England beat Pakistan by 20 runs
MOM Alastair Cook (England)
