Pakistan’s Late Comeback Leaves England Trailing by 127 Runs on Day Two

Pakistan vs England: England Trails by 127 Runs After Day Two

The second day of the second Test match between Pakistan vs England is over. England are still trailing by 127 runs in the first innings. In reply to Pakistan’s 366 runs, England scored 239 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 53 overs. Jamie Smith and Barydon Carrs return unbeaten from England. Now on the third day, Pakistan has a chance to quickly wrap up England and take a decisive lead. Now whether Pakistan succeeds in this attempt or England takes the lead? The cricket world will be paying attention to this.

Pakistan started the second day’s play with 259 for 5. But England wrapped up Pakistan’s innings by taking 5 wickets for 107 runs. Pakistan scored 366 runs in 123.3 overs in the first innings. Debutant Kamran Ghulam scored 118 runs for Pakistan. Sam Ayub scored 77 runs. Apart from these two, none could hit the 50-par mark. Jack Leach took the most wickets from England with 4 wickets. Braydon Kars struck out three. Matthew Potts took 2 wickets. Shoaib Bashir took 1 wicket.

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England’s Innings: Duckett Shines but Pakistan Fights Back

After that, England’s opening pair of Zac Crowley and Ben Duckett made a promising start. Both of them made an opening partnership of 73 runs. Then Zach Crowley returned with 27 runs off 36 balls. Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope then added 52 runs for the second wicket. Ollie Pope scored 29 runs. Ben Duckett and Joe Root then put on a partnership of 86 runs for the third wicket. Ben Duckett scored his fourth Test century during this partnership. But Sajid Khan showed Root off the field. Root contributed 34 runs. So England’s position became 211 for 3

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Pakistan’s Bowling Efforts

But after that, Pakistan returned in the last session and gave England 3 hits for 2 runs. This made England 224 for 3 and 226 for 6. Centurion Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, and Captain Ben Stokes were all dismissed by Pakistan’s bowlers. Sajid Khan dismissed Ben Duckett (114) and Harry Brook (9). Noman Ali dismissed Ben Stokes for 1 run and gave England the sixth blow. That made England 225 for 6. Both Jamie Smith and Barydon Cross then played cautiously till the end of the game and put on an unbeaten partnership of 14 runs for the seventh wicket. Sajid Khan has taken 4 wickets and Noman Ali has taken 2 wickets from Pakistan.

Pakistan XI: Shan Masood (captain), Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafiq, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Agha Salman, Amer Jamal, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Zahid Mahmood.
England XI: Ben Stokes (captain), Zach Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Matthew Potts, Brayden Carrs, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir.