Pakistan create unwanted history, become first team in 147 years to be humiliated in THIS way…
Pakistan cricket team grabbed a rather unwanted piece of history after succumbing to an innings and 47 runs loss to England on Day 5 of the first Test in Multan on Friday (October 11). Shan Masood’s side have become the first-ever cricket team in 147 years to lose a Test match by an innings after scoring over 500 runs in their first innings.
The home side began Day 5 at 152 for 6, still needing 115 more runs to make England bat again. The visiting team had replied with a record 823 for 7 declared in reply to Pakistan’s first innings total of 556. For England, Harry Brook scored 317 and Joe Root added 262.
Left-arm spinner Jack Leach took all three wickets to fall on Day five’s play to complete his four-wicket haul as England thrashed Pakistan by an innings and 47 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
WATCH Jack Leach complete an innings and 47-run win for England over Pakistan HERE…
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Pakistan also became the third team after Australia and Bangladesh to lose after scoring exactly 556 in this century. Australia lost to India while Bangladesh were defeated by West Indies. The previous highest score in an innings defeat was Ireland’s 492 against Sri Lanka to lose by innings and 10 runs.
Resuming from 152/6, Agha Salman and Aamer Jamal led Pakistan’s resistance as the duo reached their respective half-centuries, apart from being helped by reprieves from stand-in captain Ollie Pope and Shoaib Bashir.
But Leach provided the breakthrough when he trapped Salman lbw for 63, as Pakistan burnt a review. He then held on to a sharp return catch of Shaheen Shah Afridi and then had Naseem Shah stumped easily. With Abrar Ahmed not coming out to bat after being in hospital since last evening due to fever and body ache, it meant England achieved one of the most remarkable wins in Test cricket.
England recovered from conceding 556 in the first innings on a flat Multan pitch, and then came out all guns blazing to smash a whopping 823/7 declared in their turn with the bat. That total is also the fourth-highest Test innings total of all time, the highest in the 21st century and highest total by any team in Pakistan.
“Credit to the bowlers for the way they went about their stuff on Day 1 and majority of Day 2. The fitness they showed, and the same with Brook and Root. The way to win this game was to put a mammoth score on the board. It wasn’t just a hundred, but it was 260 and 315 or whatever. Credit to them, obviously the skills they have and the determination to put the team in a winning position. It was awesome,” England captain Ollie Pope said during the post-match presentation.
The main architect of this big win for England was batter Harry Brook’s 317, which is now the highest score by a batter away from home at number five or below in Test cricket, as well as become the only batter to score centuries in all of his first four Test matches in Pakistan.
Joe Root, who made a fantastic 262, has also become the leading run-getter for England in Test cricket, going past Alastair Cook’s 12472. He has also moved to sixth place in the men’s Test century list (35).
Root and Brook’s mammoth partnership of 454 is the highest for England in Test cricket, beating the 411-run stand between Peter May and Colin Cowdrey against West Indies in 1957, and has also taken the record for the highest partnership in Tests against Pakistan.
(with IANS inputs)