SHARJAH: Pakistan have England in Sharjah Test by 40 runs to win the series 2-0, courtesy to magical performance from spin cordon at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
England resumed their innings from 46-2, Root and Cook started off the proceedings but soon Pakistani spin asset Yasir Shah sent back Joe Root on 6 runs.
Zulfiqar Babar sent back fifty maker of England’s 1st innings James Taylor with the help of Younis Khan in the first slip, he made just 2 runs.
Yasir Shah with his magic made a way for Bairstow to walk back to pavilion without even opening his account.
Samit patel had no clue to Zulfiqar Babar’s spin and lost his wicket without even opening his account, it was a straight delivery which deceived Patel.
After losing 6 wickets at just 59 runs Adil Rashid and England’s skipper Cook resisted for a while but in swinging delivery of Rahat Ali has dismissed Adil Rashid, he departed after scoring 22 runs.
Cook is unbeaten at crease with well fighting 50 runs, Broad is helping him with 10 runs in the pocket.
Yesterday England got 284 runs to win the Test and got the best chance to level the series but Shoaib Malik shattered their dreams by taking back to back wickets last evening.
England at the moment 120-7Â and it still need 164 runs to win the match where Pakistan just need 3 wickets to lift the cup.
Earlier, in the second innings, Pakistan were wrapped up on 234 runs courtesy to James Anderson’s four-for 17.
England in reply posted 306 on the board, with a handy lead of 72 runs.
Pakistan’s opener Mohammad Hafeez and and Azhar Ali started second inning in quite a confident manner, before Azhar Ali walked back on 101.
He felt prey of misunderstanding between him and Hafeez. He scored 38 runs.
Hafeez went on to produce runs and made 151 runs before returning to hut.
Pakistan team after him could not make big partnerships and were all out on 355, leaving 284 target fro England.
Misbah 38, Sarfraz 36 and Asad Shafiq 46 were other prominent scores in the second innings.
Broad took 3 for 44 from England.
Pakistan 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohammad Hafeez | c Broad b Ali | 27 | 85 | 57 | 2 | 0 | 47.36 | |
Azhar Ali | c †Bairstow b Anderson | 0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Shoaib Malik | c †Bairstow b Broad | 38 | 115 | 91 | 5 | 0 | 41.75 | |
Younis Khan | lbw b Anderson | 31 | 74 | 58 | 4 | 0 | 53.44 | |
Misbah-ul-Haq* | c Root b Anderson | 71 | 212 | 160 | 7 | 2 | 44.37 | |
Asad Shafiq | c †Bairstow b Patel | 5 | 41 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
Sarfraz Ahmed†| c Root b Ali | 39 | 107 | 76 | 3 | 0 | 51.31 | |
Wahab Riaz | b Patel | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Yasir Shah | c Patel b Broad | 7 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 53.84 | |
Zulfiqar Babar | not out | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 | |
Rahat Ali | c Ali b Anderson | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
Extras | (b 1, lb 5) | 6 | ||||||
Total | (all out; 85.1 overs) | 234 | (2.74 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
JM Anderson | 15.1 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 1.12 | 80 | 1 | 0 | |
SCJ Broad | 13 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1.00 | 70 | 1 | 0 | |
BA Stokes | 11 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 2.09 | 57 | 3 | 0 | |
SR Patel | 23 | 3 | 85 | 2 | 3.69 | 102 | 11 | 1 | |
MM Ali | 13 | 3 | 49 | 2 | 3.76 | 47 | 4 | 0 | |
AU Rashid | 10 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | 38 | 3 | 1 |
England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AN Cook* | c Azhar Ali b Yasir Shah | 49 | 142 | 119 | 4 | 0 | 41.17 | |
MM Ali | c Younis Khan b Shoaib Malik | 14 | 34 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
IR Bell | st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah | 40 | 217 | 158 | 2 | 1 | 25.31 | |
JE Root | c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali | 4 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
JWA Taylor | c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali | 76 | 226 | 161 | 6 | 0 | 47.20 | |
JM Bairstow†| b Zulfiqar Babar | 43 | 165 | 118 | 5 | 0 | 36.44 | |
SR Patel | b Yasir Shah | 42 | 102 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 52.50 | |
AU Rashid | c Azhar Ali b Shoaib Malik | 8 | 67 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 15.38 | |
SCJ Broad | not out | 13 | 26 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 72.22 | |
JM Anderson | b Shoaib Malik | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
BA Stokes | b Shoaib Malik | 0 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Extras | (lb 6, nb 4) | 10 | ||||||
Total | (all out; 126.5 overs) | 306 | (2.41 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rahat Ali | 22 | 12 | 48 | 2 | 2.18 | 113 | 6 | 0 | (1nb) | |
Yasir Shah | 36 | 3 | 99 | 3 | 2.75 | 158 | 11 | 0 | ||
Wahab Riaz | 20 | 5 | 33 | 0 | 1.65 | 103 | 2 | 0 | (3nb) | |
Zulfiqar Babar | 37 | 6 | 80 | 1 | 2.16 | 172 | 6 | 1 | ||
Shoaib Malik | 9.5 | 3 | 33 | 4 | 3.35 | 40 | 3 | 0 | ||
Azhar Ali | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Pakistan 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohammad Hafeez | c Bell b Ali | 151 | 371 | 266 | 15 | 3 | 56.76 | |
Azhar Ali | run out (Bell/Rashid) | 34 | 149 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 29.56 | |
Shoaib Malik | lbw b Anderson | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Younis Khan | lbw b Broad | 14 | 53 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 35.89 | |
Rahat Ali | b Anderson | 0 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Misbah-ul-Haq* | lbw b Broad | 38 | 125 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 44.18 | |
Asad Shafiq | b Broad | 46 | 129 | 109 | 4 | 1 | 42.20 | |
Sarfraz Ahmed†| b Patel | 36 | 58 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Yasir Shah | c Broad b Rashid | 4 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 25.00 | |
Wahab Riaz | run out (Bell/†Bairstow) | 21 | 37 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 77.77 | |
Zulfiqar Babar | not out | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Extras | (b 6, lb 5) | 11 | ||||||
Total | (all out; 118.2 overs) | 355 | (3.00 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
JM Anderson | 26 | 8 | 52 | 2 | 2.00 | 127 | 5 | 1 | |
SCJ Broad | 23 | 6 | 44 | 3 | 1.91 | 115 | 5 | 0 | |
SR Patel | 19 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 4.15 | 79 | 8 | 2 | |
MM Ali | 21.2 | 1 | 72 | 1 | 3.37 | 79 | 4 | 1 | |
AU Rashid | 29 | 3 | 97 | 1 | 3.34 | 113 | 7 | 1 |
England 2nd innings (target: 284 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MM Ali | lbw b Shoaib Malik | 22 | 49 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 51.16 | |
AN Cook* | st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Shoaib Malik | 63 | 241 | 164 | 4 | 0 | 38.41 | |
IR Bell | b Shoaib Malik | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
JE Root | lbw b Yasir Shah | 6 | 32 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 20.68 | |
JWA Taylor | c Younis Khan b Zulfiqar Babar | 2 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
JM Bairstow†| lbw b Yasir Shah | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
SR Patel | lbw b Zulfiqar Babar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
AU Rashid | b Rahat Ali | 22 | 78 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 30.55 | |
SCJ Broad | c Shoaib Malik b Yasir Shah | 20 | 30 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 86.95 | |
BA Stokes | st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah | 12 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
JM Anderson | not out | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Extras | (b 7, w 1, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
Total | (all out; 60.3 overs) | 156 | (2.57 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rahat Ali | 5 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 4.60 | 19 | 3 | 0 | ||
Wahab Riaz | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 5.00 | 18 | 3 | 0 | (1nb, 1w) | |
Zulfiqar Babar | 18 | 5 | 31 | 2 | 1.72 | 86 | 2 | 0 | ||
Shoaib Malik | 15 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 1.73 | 68 | 0 | 0 | ||
Yasir Shah | 17.3 | 2 | 44 | 4 | 2.51 | 76 | 2 | 0 |
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