Rawalpindi Test; Pakistani team scored 73 runs for the loss of 3 wickets
Rawalpindi … ((Asghar Ali Mubarak) )..
On the first day of the ongoing Pindi Test between Pakistan and England, the Pakistani team scored 73 runs for the loss of 3 wickets and faceing a deficit of 194 runs against the England team .
Earlier England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and decided to bat first against Pakistan. The English team was bowled out for 267 runs. Pakistani spinners once again took 10 wickets.
Ben Duckett and Zach Crawley gave the team a 56-run start but apart from these two, other players could not get into double figures.
After Ben Duckett scored 52 runs and Zach Crawley 29 runs, Nouman Ali fell victim, after which the other three batsmen were sent back to the pavilion by Sajid Ali.
Ollie Pope was dismissed for 3, Joe Root and Harry Brooks returning to the pavilion after 5.5. Captain Ben Stokes was also the guest for just 12 runs, after which Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson put on a crucial partnership of 105 runs. Atkinson was dismissed for 39 runs. Jamie Smith fell short of his century by just 11 runs.
His innings included 6 sixes and 5 fours. After him, Rehan Ahmed scored 9 runs and Jack Leach scored 16 runs.
In this way, the entire English team was dismissed for 267 runs. All the wickets were taken by the Pakistani spinners
Sajid Khan took 6, Noman Ali 3 and Zahid Mehmood took 1 wicket. In response to 267 runs, Pakistan started their innings and soon suffered their first loss in the form of Abdullah Shafiq’s wicket and scored 14 runs and fell victim to English spinner Rehan Ahmed.
After him, the other opener Saeem Ayub could not stay on the wicket for long and he returned to the pavilion after scoring 19 runs. The third player to get out of Pakistan was Kamran Ghulam, who made a century on debut in the last Test, who was out for only 3 runs. happened
In this way, when the first day of the last Test of the three-match series ended, the Pakistan team had made 73 for the loss of 3 wickets.
Captain Shaan Masood and Saud Shakeel were at the crease with 16 and 16 respectively and they were facing a deficit of 194 runs against the visitors.