MULTAN CRICKET STADIUM: On the 2nd day of the 1st test of 3-Match series, England scored 96 runs for the loss of one wicket against Pakistan at stumps with Zak Crawley (64) and Joe Root (32) at the crease, here on Tuesday (8th October, 2024).
Green Shirts, earlier recommenced their first innings at the overnight score of 328 for four and were all out for 556 runs.
Main scorers were Skipper Shan Masood with 151 runs, Abdullah Shafiq 102 runs, Saud Shakeel 82 runs, while Salman Agha unbeaten with 104 runs.
For England, Jack Leach took three while Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse hunted two scalps each.
Green Shirts after winning the toss opted to bat first against the England Team here on Monday (7th October, 2024) and scored 328/4 at the end of the day.
Following early departure of Saim Ayub, who scored only 4 runs, before he was sent back to the pavilion by Gus Atkinson, Shan Masood cracked seven boundaries, while the Skipper hit five fours and a six.
When the match ended Saud Shakeel whose bat yielded 35 and Naseem Shah were on the crease.
The match, first of the three-match series is part of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25.
Squads for the first match:
Green Shirts: Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (skipper), Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket-keeper), Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, and Abrar Ahmad.
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (Skipper), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jack Leach, and Shoaib Bashir.
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