ENG vs PAK 2nd Test Day 1 Highlights: By the end of the first day’s play in the second test match, Pakistan had scored 259 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. The biggest hero of the first day was Kamran Ghulam, who made his international debut in this match. Kamran has created history by scoring a century in his Test debut. He put England on the back foot by playing an excellent inning of 118 runs. On the other hand, the most wickets for the English team were taken by Jack Leach, who took 2 wickets.
Pakistan recovered after a bad start
Pakistan captain Shan Masood won the toss and chose to bat first in this match. The team had a very bad start as Abdullah Shafiq and captain Shan Masood were out after scoring 7 and 3 runs respectively. In such a situation, the team had lost 2 important wickets on the score of 19. But from here, Pakistan team’s new star Kamran Ghulam made a partnership of 149 runs with Sam Ayyub.
After the fall of Ayub’s wicket, Saud Shakeel also went cheap. Kamran maintained command from the other end, but Shoaib Bashir clean bowled him for 118 runs. At the time of stumps on the first day, Mohammad Rizwan was at the crease scoring 37 runs and Agha Salman along with him scored 5 runs.
England’s bowling
Ben Stokes had missed several test matches against England due to hamstring injury. Stokes made a comeback in this match and was also seen bowling. He bowled 5 overs, in which he could not take any wicket. Jack Leach took 2 important wickets in the form of Abdullah Shafiq and Shan Masood. Matthew Potts, who returned in this match, was successful in taking one wicket. Brayden Kars and Shoaib Bashir also took one wicket each.
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