Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Series against England: Whitewash on home soil for the first time in Shaheen history


 

The English cricket team achieved the target of 167 runs for the loss of 2 wickets, England's Ben Dickett scored 82 and captain Ben Stokes played an unbeaten innings of 35 runs.


At the end of the third day of the Karachi Test yesterday, in response to Pakistan's target of 167 runs, the visitors England scored 112 runs for 2 wickets.


Pakistan team was bowled out for 216 runs in the second innings, captain Babar Azam scored 54 runs and Saud Shakeel scored 53 runs while England's Rehan Ahmed took 5 wickets in the innings and 7 wickets in the match.


In pursuit of Pakistan's target of 167 runs, the English batsmen batted smoky but could not complete the match on the third day.


The fourth day


In the match played at the National Stadium, Karachi, England achieved the target of 167 runs for the loss of just 2 wickets, Ben Duckett scored 82 runs while captain Ben Stokes scored 35 runs and remained not out. 10 runs scored, Abrar Ahmed took both wickets for Pakistan.


The third day


Pakistan started the rest of the innings on 21 runs without any loss on the third day but the whole team returned to the pavilion after scoring 216 runs, opener Shan Masood was dismissed for 24 runs, Azhar Ali Safar and Abdullah Shafiq scored 26 runs.


110 runs were scored in the partnership between captain Babar Azam and Saud Shakeel for the fourth wicket, but here Babar Azam scored 54 runs and was caught out by Rehan Ahmed.


After the dismissal of Babar Azam, no player could play on the wicket and kept losing wickets alternately, Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for 7 runs and Saud Shakeel was dismissed for 53 runs.


After the tea break, all-rounder Faheem Ashraf scored one run, Nauman Ali scored 15 runs, Muhammad Wasim scored two runs and Agha Salman scored 21 runs. Rehan Ahmed, who made his Test debut for England, took five wickets.


Pakistan scored 78 runs by losing three wickets in 24 overs in the first session of the third day, while in the second session they scored 78 runs by losing three wickets in 28 overs.


Azhar Ali, the experienced batsman of the national team, was playing the last Test of his career, while returning to the pavilion after getting out, Azhar Ali was honored by the team by waving the bat in the air.



After Pakistan, England batted and in pursuit of a target of 216 runs, by the end of the third day's play, the English batsmen had scored 112 runs with just two dismissals.


Ben Duckett 50 and Ben Stokes 10 were at the crease and England needed just 55 runs to win.


Second day


The national team scored 21 runs without loss in the second innings at the end of play on the second day of the match, after which the lead of the English team was reduced to just 29 runs.


The English team started the game on the second day with 7 runs for the loss of one wicket, but their wickets fell on a total score of 58, Ben Duckett 26 while Joe Root lost a wicket without scoring any runs, among other players, opener Rick Crowley zero. Ollie Pope 51, skipper Ben Stokes 26, Mark Wood 35 runs out.


On behalf of England, Harry Brook scored 111 with the help of 3 sixes and 8 fours, while Ben Fox played a resistant innings of 64 runs to stabilize the team's position.


For Pakistan, Abrar Ahmed and Nauman Ali took 4, 4 while Muhammad Wasim Jr got one wicket.


'First day


In response to Pakistan's 304 runs on the first day of the Test match, when the English team started batting, the first wicket fell for zero, the English player Zac Crowley lost the wicket without making any runs.


Earlier, Abdullah Shafiq and Shan Masood opened the innings on behalf of the national team, Abdullah Shafiq returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs for a total score of 18 runs, Salman Agha 56, Shan Masood 30, Azhar Ali 45, Saud Shakeel 23. , Muhammad Rizwan 19, Faheem Ashraf 4, Noman Ali 20, Abrar Ahmed 4 runs out.


Captain Babar Azam played a resistance innings of 78 runs with the help of 9 fours, but he was run out.


For England, bowler Jack Leach took 4 wickets, debutant Rehan Ahmed took 2 while Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood, and Joe Root managed to get one each.


National team won the toss and decided to bat


Earlier, national team captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat first.


Babar Azam added that Muhammad Wasim Jr is making his debut in the Karachi Test, besides Azhar Ali, Nouman Ali and Shaan Masood have also been included in the fielding XI.


On this occasion, English captain Ben Stokes said that he wanted to bat first after winning the toss, but he will try to create difficulties for Pakistan by taking early wickets in the first session.


Pakistan squad


Captain Babar Azam, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Abdullah Shafiq, Mohammad Rizwan, Agha Salman Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashrafam, Nouman Ali, Mohammad Wasim Jr. and Abrar Ahmed were included.


England squad


Captain Ben Stokes, Ben Duckett, Zac Crowley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brooke, Ben Fowkes, Rehan Ahmed, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach and Mark Wood took part.



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