1st Test: Pakistan lose 4 early wickets in second innings against England

Pakistan have lost four early wickets in their second innings in the first Test being played in Multan.

Pakistan scored 41 for the loss of four wicket. Opener Abdullah Shafiq lost his wicket to Chris Woakes on the very first ball while captain Shan Masood only managed to score 11 runs.

Earlier, England had declared their first innings at 823-7 before tea on the fourth day for a lead of 267 runs.

Harry Brook hit superb 317 and Joe Root scored 262 as both batters made their highest Test scores on the flat wicket.

England’ mammoth 823-run total marks the second time in history that a team has scored over 700 runs in a Test match against Green Shirts.

Previously,  West Indies had made 790-3 against Pakistan in 1958.

Earlier in the day, Root and Brook propelled their side way past Pakistan’s 556-run total in the first innings with the former becoming the first English batter to score 20,000 international runs.

The former captain was handed a reprieve on 186 when Babar Azam dropped a catch at mid-wicket.

Scoring his sixth double century, Root went past Cook again with only Wally Hammond ahead of him in England’s list with seven double centuries.