New Delhi. On the basis of historic innings of Harry Brook and Joe Root, England has come close to winning the Multan Test match by an innings margin. There was a lot of record rain in the 2553rd test match. England declared its first innings at 823 runs for 7 wickets. Pakistan had scored 556 runs in the first innings. England put huge pressure on Pakistan by taking the lead in the first innings of 267 runs. Therefore, Pakistan team faltered in the second innings and got into trouble after losing 6 wickets for 152 runs. If he wants to avoid the innings defeat, he still has to score 115 more runs. It is difficult for Pakistan to do this.
In Pakistan’s second innings, Saud Shakeel scored the highest score of 29 runs while opener Sam Ayub was out after scoring 25 runs. Mohammad Rizwan was out after scoring 10 runs while Babar Azam’s innings ended at the score of 5. Captain Shan Masood returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs. Agha Salman is unbeaten on 41 runs while Aamir Jamal is supporting him by scoring 27 runs. There is one full day left in the Multan Test. Atkinson and Carse have taken 2-2 wickets while Woakes and Leach have taken one wicket each.
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For the fourth time a team scored more than 800 runs
Before this, this was only the fourth occasion in Test cricket when a team scored more than 800 runs. This is also the fourth highest score in Test cricket. The record is in the name of Sri Lanka, which declared its innings over after scoring 952 runs for six wickets against India in 1997. Sri Lanka then broke England’s record for the highest score in Test cricket, which had declared their innings over after scoring 903 runs for seven wickets against Australia in 1938. England had earlier scored 849 runs against West Indies in 1930.
Joe Root played the best innings of his career
Joe Root played the best innings of his career by scoring 262 runs. During this period, he became the batsman who scored the most runs in Test cricket for England. He left Alastair Cook behind. He has reached fifth place in the list of batsmen who have scored most runs in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid. Harry Brook played a big inning of 317 runs, which is jointly 20th in the list of highest individual scores in a single innings in Test cricket. He has become the sixth batsman from England to score a triple century in Test cricket. This is the first time since Graham Gooch’s triple century against India in 1990 that an England batsman has achieved this feat.
Joe Root and Brook made a record partnership of 454 runs
Root and Brook added 454 runs, which is the biggest partnership for the fourth wicket by England in Test cricket. The record of the biggest partnership is in the name of Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene who made a partnership of 624 runs against South Africa in 2006. Six bowlers of Pakistan gave away more than 100 runs. This is only the second time in Test cricket that six bowlers have given more than 100 runs in an innings. Earlier in 2004, Zimbabwe bowlers had made this record against Sri Lanka.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: October 10, 2024, 18:44 IST