Pakistan resume innings at second day of Check match towards England. — PCBPakistan selected to bat first first after successful the toss in Multan.Host workforce confronted early blow as opener Saim Ayub bought caught behind.Saud Shakeel, Naseem Shah proceed their partnership on crease.
Pakistan resumed their innings on the second day of the primary Check within the ongoing sequence towards England on Tuesday, with Saud Shakeel and Naseem Shah persevering with their partnership towards the opponents.Â
Profitable the toss and electing to bat first, the nationwide facet on Monday suffered an early blow with opener Saim Ayub getting caught behind towards Gus Atkinson at simply 4 runs.
Nevertheless, Masood and opener Abdullah Shafique’s 114-run stand steered the nationwide facet to 122-1 at lunch.
The match ended at 328/4 with Shakeel scoring 35 and Shah at 0 on the crease.
The match, first within the three-match sequence, is being performed on the Multan Cricket Stadium and is a part of the ICC World Check Championship 2023-25.
Throughout the match on Monday, Masood was given a lbw after a supply by Brydon Carse within the debutant seamer’s second over, however the batter reviewed the choice and bought it overturned after replays confirmed the ball had pitched outdoors the leg stump.
Masood went on to take two runs off Atkinson to race to a 43-ball fifty.
Shafique bought a reprieve on 35 when he went for a dangerous single and England’s stand-in captain Ollie Pope’s direct throw narrowly missed the stumps.
Regardless of lacking the stumps, the stand-in captain didn’t quit and dismissed Shafique at 59.5 over, after the participant scored 102 runs of 184 balls, with 10 boundaries and two towering sixes.
Nevertheless, gamers like Saim Ayub couldn’t do a lot for the workforce and ended up making 4 runs solely.
Moreover, the star of the day, Masood was caught by Jack Leach at 62.3 overs, after contributing probably the most with 151 runs off 177 balls, with 13 pictures in direction of the boundary and two sixes.
Babar Azam aimed for a half century however ended up making runs under 40.
The previous white-ball captain made 30 off 71 after 5 fours, directing in direction of the pavilion at 84.3 overs after Chris Woakes dismissed the participant by a lbw.
Bowling first, Woakes and Leach bagged one wicket every whereas Atkinson took two wickets.
It’s to be famous that England are being led by Ollie Pope within the first Check after the guests’ captain Ben Stokes was dominated out of the competition as a consequence of a hamstring damage within the Hundred League.
Furthermore, James Anderson, will not be accompanying the workforce on their tour of Pakistan, as he’s taking part within the Scotland’s Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship.
The final time England have been in Pakistan for a red-ball sequence, they handed a 3-0 defeat to the nationwide facet again in 2022.
Earlier than that, the guests had performed 24 Checks in Pakistan, successful simply two out of them making the 3-0 win far more exceptional.
Taking part in XI
Pakistan: Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket-keeper), Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmad
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (captain), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir
