Rawalpindi Test: England is struggling in the second innings.

Rawalpindi Test: England is struggling in the second innings

 (Asghar Ali Mubarak)

After Saud Shakeel’s brilliant century in the third and final Test match of the Pakistan series, the England team is struggling in the second innings. And after losing 77 runs, they have lost three wickets for 24 runs.

On the second day of the third Test match of the series being played in Rawalpindi, the national team started batting with 73 for the loss of 3 wickets, then captain Shan Masood and Saud Shakeel was at the crease scoring 16, 16 runs. However, it could not increase the score much and the national captain scored 26 runs and was caught at slip by spinner Shoaib Bashir.

Saud Shakeel was then joined by wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan at the crease, the two combined to take the total to 151 runs, but Rehan Ahmed ended this crucial partnership. On this occasion Mohammad Rizwan was left lbw after scoring 25 runs and half the players of the national team had returned to the pavilion for 151 runs.

At the other end, left-hander Saud Shakeel continued to bat well and completed his half-century. Pakistan suffered their sixth loss in the form of Salman Ali Agha, who scored a run and fell victim to Rehan Ahmed.

National team all-rounder Aamir Jamal also failed and was bowled for 14 runs off the ball of Rehan Ahmed. After losing 7 wickets for 177 runs, the Pakistan team was in trouble and there were fears that they would face a deficit in the first innings.

But Saud Shakeel along with Sajid and Nauman changed the map of the match by batting brilliantly. Saud Shakeel and Nauman made a wonderful partnership of 88 runs for the eighth wicket, in which Nauman’s share was 45 runs, but he could not complete the fifty and gave away the wicket.

This was followed by Sajid’s arrival on the wicket, who was aggressive as soon as he came in and formed another excellent partnership with Saud. Saud Shakeel at the other end took full advantage of the dropped catch for 26 runs and completed a brilliant century.

The vice-captain of the national team made a brilliant partnership of 73 runs for the ninth wicket with Sajid, thanks to which the Pakistani team was able to come out of the deficit and take the lead. Saud Shakeel played a brilliant innings of 134 runs with the help of 5 fours and he took an easy catch off the ball of Gus Atkinson.

After that, it did not take long for England to take the wicket of Zahid Mahmood and he got out on his very first ball while Sajid Khan played a brilliant innings of 48 runs.

The entire Pakistan team was bowled out for 344 runs and took a valuable first innings lead of 77 runs. On behalf of England, Rehan Ahmed took 4 wickets while Shoaib Bashir took 3 wickets.

After going down by 77 runs, England started the second innings, Sajid Khan in order to bring the pads in front of the Ben Duct wickets at a total score of 15. Became a wicket. In the next over, Nouman also imitated his fellow bowler and bowled Zac Crawley LBW.

The field umpire Sharaf-ud-Daula did not give out Crawley, on which Pakistan decided to take a review and this decision proved to be absolutely correct.

Now the English team was trying to recover from these two losses that in the very next over, Nouman Ali with the help of Salman Ali Agha standing in the slip also completed the work of Ollie Pope who failed miserably throughout this tour.

When play ended on the second day of the match, England had scored 24 runs for the loss of three wickets and still needed 53 more runs to match Pakistan’s first innings score.

It should be noted that England captain Ben Stokes won the toss against Pakistan and decided to bat first, which did not prove to be correct, and the entire English team will be out for 267 runs while once again Pakistani spinners take 10 wickets.

were flying In response to 267 runs, the Pakistan team also lost three wickets for 73 runs by the end of the day. The two-match series between the two teams is tied at 1-1.