Multan: Harry Brook hit the second-fastest triple century in Test cricket while Joe Root scored the highest score of his career as England declared their first innings at 823 for seven against Pakistan in the first Test against Pakistan here on Thursday. Brook scored 317 runs in 322 balls with the help of 29 fours and three sixes, while Root scored 262 runs in 375 balls, which included 17 fours. Both of them added 454 runs for the fourth wicket, which is a new record for England.
England created history by scoring 823 runs
Pakistan had scored 556 runs in the first innings, but its batsmen faltered in the second innings. By the end of the fourth day’s play, Pakistan had scored 152 runs for six wickets in their second innings and needed 115 runs to avoid an innings defeat. This is only the fourth time in Test cricket that a team has scored more than 800 runs in an innings. This happened for the first time in the present century. Due to this, Pakistan team came under pressure and their batting collapsed badly in the second innings.
Pakistan’s seven wickets fell
Chris Woakes had uprooted the off stump of Abdullah Shafiq on the very first ball of the innings. After this, none of the Pakistani batsmen could play sustainably. Fast bowlers Gus Atkinson (2-28) and Brydon Carse (2-39) played an important role in destroying Pakistan’s batting. If Shoaib Bashir had not dropped an easy catch of Amir Jamal, Pakistan’s situation would have been worse. At the end of the day’s play, Jamal was playing on 27 and Salman Ali Agha was playing on 41 runs.
The last home test series was won in the year 2021
Pakistan last won a series at home in the year 2021. Then South Africa was defeated 2-0. Since then the Pakistani team has been slipping on home soil. In the year 2022, it was defeated 1-0 by Australia. In the same year, England defeated India 3-0. This year the two test match series with New Zealand was a draw. After that, Bangladesh defeated Pakistan 2-0 at home.