Rawalpindi: On one hand, while the British gave Pakistan a taste of baseball in the first test and destroyed them with destructive batting, now Pakistan decided to defeat the British with old-style cricket. Especially adopted the strategy of Rahul Dravid. Actually, the third and decisive match of the 3-match Test series between Pakistan and England is being played in Rawalpindi from October 24. Pakistan’s 3 wickets had fallen at the score of 46 runs.Wickets falling at one end, Saud Shakeel standing firm at the other end
On the second day of this big test, at a very important moment, a big inning came from the bat of Pakistan’s Saud Shakeel. He has scored a century in a difficult situation. Saud Shakeel, 29, whose Test career is still young. He came and showed patience and kept batting holding one end. Keep rotating the strike. In this way Saud Shakeel completed his fourth Test century in 181 balls. However, he hit only 4 fours in his innings. Rahul Dravid must have liked his Test specialist style very much.
Real Test century scored in the fast era of T20
In the T20 era, this type of Test innings has been seen very rarely. Before this Test match, Saud Shakeel has played a total of 14 Test matches in his career so far, in which he has scored 1272 runs while batting at an average of 53. Shakeel also has 7 half-centuries in his name in this format. Apart from this, he has also played 15 ODIs for Pakistan, in which Saud has scored 317 runs with the help of 3 half centuries.
England had scored 267 runs in the first innings
In this match, England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and decided to bat first. She was all out in the first innings after scoring 267 runs in 68.2 overs. Jamie Smith scored the highest score of 89 runs for the visiting team. He hit 5 fours and 6 sixes in his innings. Ben Duckett also played an inning of 52 runs. Gus Atkinson also played a good inning of 39 runs. Sajid Khan took 6 wickets for Pakistan. Noman Ali got 3 wickets while 1 wicket also went to Zahid Mahmood’s account.