ENG vs PAK 1st Test: England Collapse After Shan Masood Century Puts Pakistan On Top | Cricket News

England suffered a dramatic top-order cave in that noticed Ben Stokes out for a duck after Shan Masood’s good century established a robust place for Pakistan within the first Test at Old Trafford on Thursday. The hosts had been 92-Four at stumps on the second one day, after slumping to 12-Three, in respond to Pakistan’s first innings 326 that featured opener Masood’s Check-best 156. Ollie Pope defied Pakistan to be 46 no longer out, with Jos Buttler unbeaten on 15. However England had been nonetheless 234 runs at the back of with out a extra specialist batsmen left.

It took towering left-armer Shaheen Afridi simply 4 balls to have Rory Burns lbw ahead of Mohammad Abbas struck two times in fast succession.

Dom Sibley was once plumb lbw ahead of the correct Abbas bowled Stokes, status smartly out of his floor, with a excellent ball that clipped the highest of off-stump.

England had been now 12-Three, with the cheers of Pakistan’s reserve gamers at the resort balconies overlooking the bottom seeking to make amends for the absence in their passionate lovers in what’s a at the back of closed doorways collection as a result of the coronavirus.

Root falls

Joe Root, the England captain, and Pope stored Pakistan at bay with a stand of precisely 50.

However leg-spinner Yasir Shah then had Root, who made a suffering 14 off 58 balls, smartly stuck by way of wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan after the skipper edged an supposed lower.

The day began brilliantly for England when, with Thursday’s 6th ball, James Anderson had Babar Azam edging to first-slip Root for 69 with out Pakistan having then added to their in a single day 139.

However Masood pressed on to sign up for a choose workforce of Pakistan batsmen who’ve scored masses in 3 successive Check innings.

The 30-year-old left-hander batted for almost 8 hours in in large part bowler-friendly prerequisites to surpass his earlier Check-best of 135 towards Sri Lanka in Karachi in December. 

He gained superb beef up from Shadab Khan (45) in a sixth-wicket stand of 105 as England had been run ragged after Pakistan have been suffering at 176-Five.

Pakistan had controlled simply 48 runs for the lack of 3 wickets in Thursday’s first consultation to succeed in 187-Five at lunch.

However with 5 overs till the brand new ball, Root then bowled his personal occasional off-breaks in tandem with frontline spinner Dom Bess in an instant after the period.

Masood and Shadab spoke back by way of including 27 runs with each batsmen smartly set by the point England took the brand new ball.

There have been no apprehensive 90s for Masood, who have been reprieved two times on 45 by way of Buttler on Wednesday after the wicketkeeper dropped a catch and overlooked a stumping off the unlucky Bess.

Two late-cut obstacles off Stuart Extensive took him to 96 ahead of Masood, who struggled right through Pakistan’s 2016 excursion of England, finished a 251-ball century, together with 13 fours.

In addition to being his fourth hundred in 21 Assessments, and a primary towards England, it was once additionally Masood’s 3rd in a row, after his century towards Sri Lanka was once adopted by way of 100 towards Bangladesh in Rawalpindi in February.

Masood, skilled in England, was once the 6th Pakistan batsman to attain 100 in 3 consecutive Check innings after Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar, Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan — now Pakistan’s batting trainer — and Misbah-ul-Haq.

All-rounder Shadab holed out off Bess with a mistimed slog to mid-on.

Speedy bowler Jofra Archer then took two tail-end wickets with successive deliveries ahead of Afridi survived the hat-trick.

Masood, enjoying a textbook opener’s innings, upped the pace by way of hoisting and using Bess for 2 sixes.

Promoted

He ultimately fell lbw after tea to Extensive, having confronted 319 balls, hitting 18 fours and two sixes.

Extensive led England’s assault with Three-54 from 22.Three overs whilst Archer additionally took 3 wickets.