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Saud misses hundred, Salman guides Pakistan to 515-8 at tea in Multan ground​

Reuters
October 8, 2024

Pakistan’s Salman Agha and Saud Shakeel bump fists. — Reuters

Saud Shakeel missed out on a hundred but Salman Agha smashed a brisk 79 not out to propel Pakistan to a commanding 515 for eight at tea on the second day of the contest on Tuesday.

Pakistan lost Saud and Aamer Jamal in the second session but Salman hit two sixes and 10 fours in his belligerent knock to take them past the 500-mark. Shaheen Afridi was giving him company on 13.

England were made to toil with little reward on Monday and it was more of the same when play resumed as Naseem Shah, a key cog in Pakistan’s new-ball attack, proved he could contribute with the bat as well.

Naseem smacked three sixes in his career-best 33, denying England a breakthrough in the first hour, despite suffering hits to the helmet and his bowling hand.

Naseem collaborated in a 64-run partnership with Saud before his 82-ball defiance ended after he tickled Brydon Carse to Harry Brook at leg slip, giving the debutant seamer his maiden test wicket.

Next man in Mohammad Rizwan fell for a 12-ball duck, stepping out against Jack Leach and spooning the ball to Chris Woakes at mid-off. Saud (82) looked poised for a hundred but was caught in the slip off Shoaib Bashir.

Thanks to Salman’s free-scoring knock, Pakistan milked 118 runs from 26 overs in this session to cement their position in the contest.

England have burnt two out of their three reviews in the innings. Ollie Pope now has an unflattering 0-13 review record as England captain.

Saud had stayed on course to be the third Pakistan batter to smash a hundred in the opening test against England as the hosts reached 397 for six at lunch.

Naseem excelled in the nightwatchman’s role as he smashed a career-best 33, collaborating in a 64-run partnership with Saud, who was batting on 67 at the break.

Salman Agha was yet to open his account at the other end on a batter’s paradise at the Multan Cricket Stadium.

England were made to toil with little reward on Monday and it was more of the same when play resumed as Naseem, a key cog in Pakistan’s new-ball attack, proved he could contribute with the bat as well.

Naseem smacked three sixes, denying England a breakthrough in the first hour, despite suffering hits to the helmet and his bowling hand.

His 82-ball defiance finally came to an end when he tickled Brydon Carse to Harry Brook at leg slip, giving the debutant seamer his maiden test wicket.

The next man Mohammad Rizwan fell for a 12-ball duck, stepping out against Jack Leach and spooning the ball to Chris Woakes at mid-off.

Saud has looked in control hitting eight fours in his fine knock.

 

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Pakistan 556 all out v England in opening test in Multan ground​

Reuters
October 8, 2024

Pakistan’s Salman Agha and Saud Shakeel bump fists. — Reuters

Pakistan’s Aamer Jamal celebrates with teammates after taking a catch to dismiss England’s Ollie Pope off the bowling of Naseem Shah. — Reuters


Pakistan were all out for 556 in their first innings on day two of the opening test against England on Tuesday.

Shan Masood (151), Abdullah Shafique (102) and Salman Agha (104 not out) struck hundreds while Saud Shakeel made 82.

Jack Leach was the pick of the English bowlers claiming 3-160.

Saud missed out on a hundred but Salman smashed a brisk 79 not out to propel Pakistan to a commanding 515 for eight at tea.

Pakistan lost Saud and Aamer Jamal in the second session but Salman hit two sixes and 10 fours in his belligerent knock to take them past the 500-mark. Shaheen Afridi was giving him company on 13.

England were made to toil with little reward on Monday and it was more of the same when play resumed as Naseem Shah, a key cog in Pakistan’s new-ball attack, proved he could contribute with the bat as well.

 

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Pakistan at 23-1 after Brook triple hundred takes England to 823-7​

AFP
October 10, 2024

Pakistan’s captain Shan Masood plays a shot during the fourth day of the first Test cricket match between Pakistan and England at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan on October 10. — AFP

Pakistan were 23-1 at tea on the fourth day and fighting to avoid an innings defeat after Harry Brook’s 371 and Joe Root’s 262 propelled England to a mammoth 823-7 declared in the first Test on Thursday.

Brook and Root put on 454 for the fourth wicket as England piled up the fourth highest innings in Test cricket history before Chris Woakes bowled opener Abdullah Shafique with the first ball of their second innings.

Saim Ayub and captain Shan Masood — dropped twice by England fielders — were unbeaten on 13 and 10 respectively with Pakistan still needing 244 to make England bat again.

Brook and Root enjoyed a run-feast on a flat Multan stadium pitch, both knocking career-best scores to give England a 267 lead over Pakistan’s first innings total of 556.

The 25-year-old Brook clubbed a four-off spinner Saim Ayub to become the sixth Englishman to score 300 or more in Test cricket, achieving the feat off 310 balls, with 28 fours and three sixes.

Andy Sandham of England was the first batsman to score a triple hundred in Test cricket, scoring 325 against the West Indies at Kingston in 1930.

Other Englishmen to score 300 are Len Hutton (364), Wally Hammond (336 not out), Graham Gooch (333 not out) and Bill Edrich (310 not out).

Brook has made rapid strides at the international level since making his debut in 2022. He knocked three centuries against Pakistan in 2022 — in only his second series, which England won 3-0.

Brook’s senior partner Joe Root was unlucky not to reach his maiden triple century as he was trapped leg-before by spinner Agha Salman for 262 soon after lunch.

England resumed on 492-3 and looked for quick runs, which Root and Brook provided despite Pakistan’s defensive leg-side bowling, adding 166 runs in 29 overs in the session.

Root, who went past Alastair Cook’s 12,472 to become England’s highest Test run scorer on Wednesday, broke his previous best of 254 which he had also scored against Pakistan at Manchester in 2016.

Pakistan’s only chance came in the first hour when Root, on 186, failed to keep down a pull shot off pace bowler Naseem Shah but Babar Azam shelled the regulation chance at mid-wicket.

Pakistan were without frontline spinner Abrar Ahmed who suffered a fever and did not take the field on Thursday.

 

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Leach leads England’s rout of Pakistan in first Test in Multan​

AFP
October 11, 2024

England’s captain Ollie Pope and his teammate Jamie Smith (L) successfully appeals for leg before wicket (LBW) against Pakistan’s Salman Agha (R) during the fifth and last day of the first Test cricket match between Pakistan and England at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan on October 11. — AFP
England’s bowlers, led by spinner Jack Leach, tore through the Pakistan line-up to secure victory in the first Test in Multan on Friday after a record partnership between Harry Brook and Joe Root turned the match on its head.

England’s attack made short work of the last four Pakistan batters on Day 5, dismissing the hosts for 220 to win by an innings and 47 runs and draw first blood in the three-match series.

The win is England’s fourth consecutive Test triumph on Pakistan soil, after a 3-0 whitewash two years ago. England had only won two away Tests against Pakistan in the previous 61 years.

It was also filled with several new milestones for England.

“This win would be right up there. Definitely top three,” said captain Ollie Pope, standing in for injured skipper Ben Stokes.

Brook smashed 317 and Root a record-setting 262 in England’s mammoth 823-7 declared, giving the visitors a 267-run lead and both players their highest Test scores.

Their 454, England’s highest-ever partnership for any wicket in Test cricket, also delivered an improbable advantage after Pakistan amassed an impressive 556 first-innings total.

Pope was full of praise for Brook and Root’s heroics.

“Credit to them for the skills and determination to put the team in a winning position,” he said.

By close of play on the fourth day on a lifeless pitch, England had posted the fourth-highest Test innings total of 823-7 and taken total control of the match with the hosts teetering at 152-6.

Along the way, Root became the highest run scorer for England in Test history.

England’s bowlers then delivered a dagger blow on a lifeless Multan pitch where the first 17 wickets fell for a mammoth 1,379 runs.

Towards the end of the fourth day, Pakistan were reeling at 82-6 before Salman Agha and Aamer Jamal came together for Pakistan’s only meaningful partnership.

The pair added 109 before Leach, who marshalled the attack with 4-30, provided the first breakthrough on the fifth day when he dislodged Salman for a fighting 63 and opened the floodgates.

Leach then took a smart return catch to get Shaheen Shah Afridi for ten and then had Naseem Shah stumped for six, wrapping up Pakistan’s second innings.

Last man Abrar Ahmed was unable to bat after being taken to hospital with a high fever.

“When you come out to bat again and you’re 260 runs behind and the pitch is three days older, it’s never easy,” said Pope of Pakistan’s second-innings predicament.

Pope also lauded the grit shown by England’s inexperienced attack.

“Our bowlers got the odd ball to reverse and spin,” he said of Gus Atkinson who took 2-46 and debutant Brydon Carse who finished with 2-66.

 

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ae Pakistand kirket

kya hoga tumhara

na khud jaaney, na khuda jaaney

 

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wr you sultaands of swings vanished to, brozullah bhaiuddin ?

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@Ghazi52 sirji, I have a thread going at the other place discussing the WTF of Pakistan kirket.

 

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wr you sultaands of swings vanished to, brozullah bhaiuddin ?

@Lulldapull @Vsdoc

@Ghazi52 sirji, I have a thread going at the other place discussing the WTF of Pakistan kirket.

Bro I'm totally off cricket. Never cottoned to the new Kohli led generation after mine retired. The Golden Boys.

 

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Oh bhai, iss game ko ban karva day in the subcontinent for the luv of ghaadd!

Kaalay hunstay hain hum logon per on our obsession with this Tommy pommy country club game with the colored natives serving chai biscutt juice and keelub sandviches to the colonists.

This game epitomizes the slavery of the colored subcontinent native to the UK.

 

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