On the third day of the Rawalpindi Test match, Pakistan defeated England by nine wickets and won the three-match series 1-2.
England’s batsmen looked helpless in front of Pakistani bowlers Nauman Khan and Sajid Ali in the second innings as well and the entire team was bowled out for 112.
Thus, before the lunch break on the third day of the match, Pakistan got an easy target of 36 runs, which Pakistan easily achieved in 3.1 overs at the loss of one wicket.
On behalf of Pakistan, Saeem Ayub was dismissed with 8 runs while captain Shaan Masood was unbeaten with 23 and Abdullah Shafiq with 5 runs.
On the second day of the match on Friday, Sajid Khan and Nouman Ali put England in trouble after three of its top batsmen returned to the pavilion in the final session of the day.
When the match resumed on Saturday, none of the English batsmen except Joe Root could stay at the crease for long in front of the two Pakistani spinners.
Root provided some support to the team’s innings but he too could not stay at the crease for long in front of the spinners and was the victim of Nouman Ali for 33 runs and after that the English innings ended with only 27 runs added to the total score. .
In Pakistan’s second innings, Nauman Ali dismissed six and Sajid Khan dismissed four players.
Second day of the match
Like on the second day of the match, spinner Nauman Ali and Sajid Khan bowled brilliantly to guide the three English batsmen to the pavilion at the start of the day.
Nauman Ali dismissed Harry Brooke for 26 and Ben Stokes for 3 runs.
Sajid Khan got the third wicket of the day by dismissing Jamia Smith for three runs.
Joe Root provided some support to the team’s innings but he too could not stay at the crease for long in front of the spinners and fell victim to Nouman Ali for 33 runs.
Sajid Khan dismissed Gus Atkinson for 10 runs and Rehan Ahmed for seven runs and this was his fourth wicket in the match while Nauman Ali has taken five wickets.
Earlier, Pakistan team was bowled out for 344 runs in their first innings.
Saud Shakeel scored a responsible batting century which brought life to Pakistan’s innings.
On behalf of green shirts, opener Abdullah Shafiq 14, Saeem Ayub 16, captain Shaan Masood 26, Kamran Ghulam 3, Mohammad Rizwan 25 and Salman Agha got out by scoring 1 run.
For England, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed took 2, 2 wickets while Jack Leach and Gus Atkinson took 1, 1 wicket.