Fourth day of Pakistan-England Test: English team has a target of 297 runs, need 261 runs to win: Score 36/2 on the third day

Sajid Khan celebrating the wicket of Ben Duckett. Sajid sent seven England players to the pavilion in the first innings.

The second test between Pakistan and England is being played at Multan Cricket Stadium. On the fourth day, England needs 261 runs to win while Pakistan needs 8 wickets to level the series. Pakistan has set a target of 297 runs for England to win. England had scored 36 runs after losing two wickets at stumps on the third day. Earlier, Pakistan scored 221 runs in the second innings. He had got a lead of 75 runs on the basis of first innings. Pakistan had scored 366 runs in the first innings. In reply, on the third day, England was all out for 291 runs in the first innings. Sajid Khan took 7 wickets for Pakistan.

Salman Aga, Pakistan’s top run scorer in the second innings, scored 63 runs on 89 balls. Saud Shakeel was Pakistan’s second top scorer in the second innings. He faced 51 balls and scored 31 runs. For England, Shoaib Shakeel took 4 wickets and Jack Leach took 3 wickets in the second innings.

England had scored 239 runs in the first innings till stumps on the second day. England had scored 239 runs for 6 wickets in the first innings till stumps on Wednesday. By the end of the second day’s play, Jamie Smith returned unbeaten on 12 and Brayden Carse returned unbeaten on 2 runs. On the third day, playing ahead with the score of 239, England lost their seventh wicket after adding 9 runs. Sajid Khan gave success to Pakistan in the first session on the third day.

On the score of 248 runs, he sent England’s batsman Brayden Carse to the pavilion by getting caught by Saud Shakeel. Matthew Potts, who came to bat after Carse’s dismissal, was also out on the score of 256. He was also bowled by Sajid Khan. Jamie Smith also returned to the pavilion after scoring 21 runs. Noman Ali got him caught by Saim Ayub and sent him to the pavilion. Sajid Khan ended England’s innings at the score of 291 by getting Shoaib Bashir caught by Shan Masood.

Ben Duckett scored a century Ben Duckett was out for England after scoring a century. He scored 114 runs on 129 balls. This is the fourth century of his Test career. Apart from him, Joe Root scored 34 runs. Noman Ali has got 2 wickets.

Kamran Ghulam scored a century Kamran Ghulam, playing his debut Test for Pakistan, scored a century in the first innings. He played an innings of 118 runs on 224 balls. Apart from him, Saim Ayub scored 77 runs. Mohammad Rizwan contributed 41 runs, Amil Jamal contributed 37 runs, Noman Ali contributed 32 runs and Agha Salman contributed 31 runs.

Kamran Ghulam after scoring a century.

Pakistan’s bad start on the first day Pakistan’s start was not good. The team lost the first wicket on the score of 15 runs. Abdullah Shafiq was out after scoring 7 runs. The second blow came on 19 runs. Captain Shan Masood was out after scoring 3 runs. Jack Leach took both the wickets. From here Kamran Ghulam and Saim Ayub took over Pakistan’s innings. There was a partnership of 149 runs between the two for the third wicket. This partnership broke with the wicket of Saim. Saim scored 77 runs.

After this Saud Shakeel was out after scoring 4 runs. The last wicket of the day fell in the form of Kamran. He played an innings of 118 runs on 224 balls.

Pakistan lost the first match by an innings and 47 runs. For the first time in the history of Test cricket, a team lost the match even after scoring more than 500 runs. This record was made in the test match played between Pakistan and England in Multan.

In this test, Pakistan scored 556 runs in the first innings. After this England’s innings started. England scored 823 runs thanks to Harry Brook’s triple and Joe Root’s double century. England took a lead of 267 runs over Pakistan.

Pakistan was all out for 220 runs in the second innings. England won the match by an innings and 47 runs. The first official Test was played for the first time in 1877. After that, for the first time a team has lost in this manner.

Pakistan : Shan Masood (captain), Saeem Ayub, Abdullah Shafiq, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Agha Salman, Aamer Jamal, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan and Zahid Mahmood.

England: Ben Stokes (captain), Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Popp, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Matthew Potts, Brydon Carse, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir.