PAK vs ENG 2024/25, PAK vs ENG 2nd Test Score Report, October 15 – 19, 2024

Lunch Pakistan 79 for 2 (Ayub 40*, Ghulam 29*, Leach 2-35) vs. In England

After winning the toss, Shan Masood was delighted – and a little relieved – to be able to use the first place that has been heavily blessed and dry with industrial fans in the four-day turnaround since England’s innings victory in the first match of the series. . Although he couldn’t predict exactly how it would play out, he realized that running the board would be important if the place broke out as expected.

It took Ben Stokes, England’s returning captain, just five overs to make his mark, as he put young seamers Matthew Potts and Brydon Carse to pasture and turned to his twins, Leach and Shoaib. Bashir. Both would bowl 19 overs in the next 21 overs between them, with Joe Root’s Test overs allowing the two to alternate, before quick returns before lunch with the aim of pulling back.

Leach had already shown his relative love for the game with seven wickets in the first Test, including the last four in Pakistan’s second innings on days four and five of that match. Indeed, the sixth day played to his Test strengths, as he became the first England spinner to take two wickets in the first ten overs of a Test match since Johnny Briggs in 1889.

His first victim was Abdullah Shafique, who scored a century in the first innings last week, but he was again criticized, especially for his failure to open the field with Ayub. The duo had a career-high 8 runs, and an average of 2.67, in the last eight innings combined, and although they both doubled that tally by taking their scores to 15, Leach then ripped a sharp spinner past the edge of Shafique before nailing. he took out one stump later, as Shafique bowled down the wrong line for 7.

Masood then came and went before Leach’s next over was finished, as Stokes – still playing his field and eager to end the rally – delivered his short midwicket to invite the ball across the line, and he struck one ball later, as Zak Crawley stood up. picking up the bottom piece from the outside that closes.

That put Ghulam in the middle on a dicey 19 for 2, but the opener showed few emotions as he demonstrated the technique that took him to more than 4500 first-class runs at an average of 49 in Pakistan’s domestic matches.