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2nd Test: Pakistan’s decision to reuse the pitch of the first Test against England…
(Asghar Ali Mubarak).
Pakistan has decided to reuse the pitch from the first Test in the second Test against England in Multan.
This decision of not changing the pitch is significant after Pakistan cricket team lost 11 home Test matches in a row.
Big fans are also installed on the sides of the wicket to make the pitch a turning track.
It should be remembered that in the first match of the three-test series, England’s cricket team defeated Pakistan by an innings and 47 runs.
On the last day of the first Test in Multan, the Pakistani team was all out for 200 runs in the second innings.
Despite scoring more than 500 runs in the first innings, Pakistan lost by an innings.
At the end of play on the fourth day, Pakistan had scored 152 runs for the loss of six wickets and needed 65 more runs to avoid an innings defeat. Harry Brooke scored the fastest triple century for England in Tests. He also shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 454 runs with Joe Root.
Root scored a double century and got out. The England cricket team became the first team to score the highest number of runs in an innings in a Test in Pakistan.
Before that, the Indian cricket team scored 675 runs for the loss of 5 wickets during the Multan Test in 2004.
According to the report, the first Test match. Pakistan took this decision after suffering an innings defeat at the hands of the visiting team.
On Sunday, national Test team head coach Jason Gillespie and captain Shaun Masood inspected the pitch while the head coach told the Pakistan Cricket Board head curator Tony Hemming also about the pitch.
In the second Test, extra water was given to the pitch to make it spin-friendly, while in the first Test, the footprints of the bowlers, feathers and the strong sun had damaged the pitch.
This decision by Pakistan is unusual, however the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) pitch regulations require the pitch and outfield to be in the best possible condition with no wicket being used or unused, condition is not imposed.