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Pakistan is in danger of losing by an innings in the Test match being played at Edgbaston. After falling behind England by 320 runs in the first innings, Pakistan has lost 2 wickets for 52 runs in the second innings. By the end of the second day’s play, Shan Masood was playing on 21 runs and Azaan Awais was playing on 29 runs.
Earlier, England was all out after scoring 453 runs in the first innings. Team captain Harry played the highest innings of 75 runs. Apart from him, 4 players scored fifty. The team had restricted Pakistan to 133 runs in the first innings.
Pakistan lost 2 wickets in the first over
Pakistan had a bad start in the second innings also. The team lost 2 wickets in the first over with a score of zero. Ollie Robinson got Saim Ayub caught out by Harry Brook on the very first ball.
After this, Abdullah Shafiq was also out on the fourth ball. Joe Root took his catch.
Ollie Robinson took 2 wickets in the very first over.
England had lost 3 wickets for 39 runs.
England had a bad start. The team lost the wickets of Ben Duckett (11), Jordan Cox (4) and Joe Root (8) at the score of 39 runs. After this, Harry Brook along with Emilio Gay (60) added 104 runs for the fourth wicket. This was the only century partnership of the match.
Duckett could score only 11 runs.
Jamie Smith scored 69, Lawrence scored 65 runs
Jamie Smith (69) and Dan Lawrence (65) scored half-centuries to take the team beyond 350 runs. After this, Ollie Robinson (50) partnered with the lower order and took the score beyond 450 runs. Joffra Archer also remained unbeaten in the last match after scoring 32 runs on 27 balls.
Jamie Smith hit 9 fours and 1 six in his innings of 69 runs.
2 debutant bowlers of Pakistan took 7 wickets
Razaullah, who was debuting for Pakistan, took 4 wickets. Second debutant Mohammad Imran Randhawa also took 2 wickets. Mohammad Ali also got 2 wickets.
Razaullah, playing his first test match for Pakistan, took 4 wickets.
Pakistan was reduced to just 133 runs
On the first day, Pakistan came out to bat after losing the toss. However, none of the Pakistani batsmen could stand against the fast bowlers of England. The entire team was reduced to 133 runs in just 33.5 overs.
Saud Shakeel scored the highest score of 43 runs for Pakistan, while the top-5 batsmen including captain Babar Azam could not even touch double figures.
Captain Babar could score only 5 runs in the first innings.
The batsmen got defeated in front of Josh Tongue, Robinson and Archer.
England’s bowlers had tightened the noose on the match from the very first day. Fast bowler Josh Tong bowled lethally and took 4 wickets for 42 runs. Whereas Ollie Robinson and Joffra Archer displayed sharp bowling and took 3 wickets each. In response, England took the lead on the first day itself, which was increased to 320 runs by the tea break on the second day.
Robinson took 3 wickets in the first innings.
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