Left-arm spinner Jack Leach took all three wickets to fall on day 5’s play to finish his four-wicket haul as England thrashed Pakistan by an innings and 47 runs to take a 1-0 lead within the three-match sequence on the Multan Cricket Stadium on Friday.
The astonishing win for England additionally makes Pakistan, who have been dismissed for 220 within the second innings, the primary group in Take a look at historical past to lose by an innings after scoring 500 runs of their first innings.
Resuming from 152/6, Agha Salman and Aamer Jamal led Pakistan’s resistance because the duo reached their respective half-centuries, aside from being helped by reprieves from stand-in captain Ollie Pope and Shoaib Bashir.
However Leach offered the breakthrough when he trapped Salman lbw for 63, as Pakistan burnt a evaluation. He then held on to a pointy return catch of Shaheen Shah Afridi after which had Naseem Shah stumped simply. With Abrar Ahmed not popping out to bat after being in hospital since final night resulting from fever and physique ache, it meant England achieved one of the vital exceptional wins in Take a look at cricket.
HISTORY CREATED IN MULTAN.
– Pakistan turns into the primary group to lose a Take a look at match by an innings even after scoring 500-plus within the first inning. pic.twitter.com/TYNo67rYOW
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 11, 2024
Pakistan pic.twitter.com/ASGWCJ6Tid
— Sakshi Bhadauria (@Sakshiisanerd) October 11, 2024
India on the high, Pakistan at backside of WTC factors desk. pic.twitter.com/GHGVAgcPgg
— Johns (@JohnyBravo183) October 11, 2024
All the time belief Pakistan Batting Anna @ashwinravi99 #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/Etbt1JJK7V
— Mohammad Salman (@imsalmansam2) October 11, 2024
Pakistan Cricket is a present that retains giving.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 11, 2024
Pakistan cricket group:
in T20Is:
– can’t chase 120
– can’t defend 200in ODIs:
– can’t defend 300
– can’t set a goal of 300in Checks:
– can’t win after taking 6 for 25
– can’t draw after scoring 550+ pic.twitter.com/ER1lu3MgYP
— Johns (@JohnyBravo183) October 11, 2024
England recovered from conceding 556 within the first innings on a flat Multan pitch, after which got here out all weapons blazing to smash a whopping 823/7 declared of their flip with the bat. That complete can also be the fourth-highest Take a look at innings complete of all time, the best within the twenty first century and highest complete by any group in Pakistan.
The primary architect of this massive win for England was batter Harry Brook’s 317, which is now the best rating by a batter away from residence at quantity 5 or under in Take a look at cricket, in addition to turn into the one batter to attain centuries in all of his first 4 Take a look at matches in Pakistan.
Joe Root, who made a improbable 262, has additionally turn into the main run-getter for England in Take a look at cricket, going previous Alastair Cook dinner’s 12472. He has additionally moved to sixth place within the males’s Take a look at century record (35).
Root and Brook’s mammoth partnership of 454 is the best for England in Take a look at cricket, beating the 411-run stand between Peter Might and Colin Cowdrey towards West Indies in 1957, and has additionally taken the file for the best partnership in Checks towards Pakistan.
When it comes to the World Take a look at Championship standings, England are at fourth place with a factors proportion of 45.59, whereas Pakistan are on the backside of the desk with a factors proportion of 16.67.
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