In the first match of the Test series, England defeated Pakistan by three wickets.
In the match played at Old Trafford, the England team achieved the target of 277 runs for the loss of seven wickets thanks to the brilliant batting of Butler and Woakes.
With this win, England has taken a one-nil lead in the three-match Test series.
Pakistan team was bowled out for 169 runs on the fourth day of the first test match against England and Azhar Ali XI gave England a target of 277 runs to win.
On the fourth day of the first Test, Yasir Shah scored the highest 33 runs for Pakistan. England’s Stuart Broad took 3 wickets while Chris Woakes took 2 wickets.
At the end of the third day of the three-match Test series, Pakistan scored 137 runs for the loss of eight wickets in their second innings.
Earlier, the national team started their second innings with a lead of 107 runs, opener Shaun Masood, who scored a brilliant century in the first innings, was caught out by Stuart Broad in the second innings without opening his account.
After him, Abid Ali was caught out after scoring 20 runs while trying to hit an aggressive shot to the dome base. Babar Azam was caught at slip off Chris Woakes for an individual score of 5.
Captain Azhar Ali was left lbw by Chris Woakes after scoring 18 runs off 54 balls.
In response to Pakistan’s 326 runs, the England team was all out for 219 runs on the third day.
In the match played at Manchester Old Trafford, England started the innings on 96 runs with 4 out.
Meanwhile, English batsman Oli Pop managed to score a fifty, but his innings ended at the hands of Naseem Shah.
After which none of the batsmen of the English team could play openly and England’s wickets kept falling one after the other.
On behalf of England, Oli Popp 62, Butler 38 and Stuart Broad were prominent by scoring 28 runs, on behalf of Pakistan Yasir Shah scored four, Shadab and Abbas scored two each while Shaheen and Naseem Shah dismissed one player each.
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2024-09-03 06:27:32
