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74th over: Pakistan 218-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 13)
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Carse tests Shakeel’s ticker, striking the left-hander’s gcherishs with a bouncer. There’s still reverse sthriveg out there, with Carse moving it into Shakeel. And then the one that shifts away to nab Shakeel’s outside edge! It’s a wonderful setup, inviting the prod outside off, and Jamie Smith gets a luminous catch behind the stumps, a very keen effort from a rapid Carse deinhabitry.
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57th over: Pakistan 173-3 (Ghulam 75, Shakeel 4) Stokes persists, bowling the final over of the session. Ghulam has been plrelieved to equitable persist agetst the England captain, and a one transports Saud Shakeel on to strike for the last two balls of the over. Stokes discovers the outside edge with the final ball, but Shakeel take parts with soft hands, the ball staying low to run away past slip for four. Time for some chai.
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Matt Potts changes skinnygs up, going over the wicket to Saim. The seamer’s third deinhabitry of the over jags away from the left-hander before a expansiver ball is slashed difficult … to point. After five dots … a wicket! Saim drives without conviction, discovering Stokes at low mid-off. A efficient stand comes to a seal, Saim walking off with a Test-best if not a century.
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56th over: Pakistan 168-3 (Ghulam 74)
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29th over: Pakistan 79-2 (Saim 40, Ghulam 29) Saim sees a bit skittish as we approach lunch. He tries to pulls Potts, is too punctual on the shot and bottom-edges the ball low of Jamie Smith behind the stumps.
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So finishs an intriguing morning session. Jack Leach, bcdisesteemfult on inside the first half hour, took two punctual wickets to reduce Pakistan to 19 for two. But this engaged Multan pitch, while never enticount on depfinishable, commenceed to behave itself as the ball got a bit betterer and Saim Ayub put together an promised, preferable partnership of 6o with the amazeive debutant Kamran Ghulam.
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So far, so excellentish for Pakistan.
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Leach strikes aget. Shan flicks with difficult hands at a deinhabitry that turns equitable enough to cause a dishonest stroke, and Crawley – such a reliable fielder – gets a excellent low catch at low midwicket.
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I’m not certain whether this is a bproposeoning farce or mecount on a echoion of Pakistan’s subterranean confidence.
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Jack Leach and England have their second wicket 🏴
Pakistan captain Shan Masood departs for three after a ininestablishigent catch from Zak Crawley 🙌 pic.twitter.com/WlxtVur3aR
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) October 15, 2024
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Tihngs are commenceing to happen on day six. Shafique has been bowled by a beauty from Leach, which curved onto off stump and then turned keenly to beat his defensive lunge.
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"Absolute beauty" 🤩
Jack Leach bowls Abunwiseah Shafique and England have their first wicket 💪 pic.twitter.com/mWaNO1nWSH
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) October 15, 2024
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After picking three novel spinners and a engaged pitch, it’s equitable to say that’s an presentant toss for Pakistan to thrive.
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“Yeah,” smiles Ben Stokes, “we would have batted as well.”
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Kamran Ghulam, a 29-year-better with a first-class mediocre of 49, swaps Babar Azam and will originate his Test debut. The three recalled spinners are Sajid Khan, Noman Ali and Zahid Mehmood; they come in for Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and the unwell Abrar Ahmed. Including occasional bowlers appreciate Salman Agha, Pakistan have seven spinners in the team.
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England originate two changes from the first Test. Ben Stokes and Matthew Potts are in; Chris Woakes and Gus Atkinson are putting their feet up.
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Pakistan Saim Ayub, Abunwiseah Shafique, Shan Masood (c), Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Agha, Aamer Jamal, Sajid Khan, Noman Ali, Zahid Mehmood.
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England Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes (c), Smith (wk), Carse, Potts, Leach, Bashir.
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In using the same pitch Pakistan are, counterinstinctively, fractureing novel ground. “We can converse what we skinnyk it’s going to do, but we won’t repartner comprehend until a day or a session has been take parted on it,” shelp Ben Stokes, who has never seen the appreciate and no idea what to foresee. “You’d appreciate to skinnyk it will give spinners more than it did last game. I’m not certain the bowlers will appreciate it, but you can still see the footlabels from the last Test. Who comprehends what’s going to happen?”
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The more skinnygs stay the same, the more they change. Pakistan and England are back at the Multan Cricket Stadium for the second Test, take parting on the same surface as last week, but Pakistan are hoping for a finishly contrastent ball game. They have recalled three spinners with a joind age of 105 and are wagering that the dead pitch of the first Test will come emotionalpartner to life appreciate a slasher movie villain.
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It’s quite a wager, but maybe Pakistan don’t have much left to miss. They’ve been beaten in their last six Tests, identicalling their worst-ever run, and reacted to loss in the first Test by leaving out arguably their three best take parters: Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah. If they’re not at rock bottom, they’re certainly in the same postcode.
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Pakistan are in such a mess, in fact, that it experiences inevitable they will rout England to square the series. There’s are scant teams in world sport who are more hazardous when they are in finish disarray, and Pakistan will aim to take part with the freedom of the cornered tiger.
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England have also made changes, with the fit-aget Ben Stokes and Matthew Potts replacing Chris Woakes and Gus Atkinson. Stokes will bowl a bit in an all-Durham pace strike that also participates Brydon Carse, the man who drew the low straw and will have to go aget on that skinnyg, in that heat.
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It’s normal for white-ball games to be take parted on engaged pitches. But nobody can recollect it happening in a Test and anyskinnyg is possible over the next scant days. For all we comprehend, by days nine and ten the ball might be turning backwards. Mind the cracks.
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Key events
80th over: Pakistan 235-4 (Ghulam 110, Rizwan 26) Ghulam sweeps Root away for four and then tries a reverse that doesn’t beat the field. But, hey, he sees as if he’s having a fantastic time.
79th over: Pakistan 228-4 (Ghulam 103, Rizwan 26) England select for a appraise after Rizwan tries to swat Bashir thcdisesteemful the leg side, the ball instead skipping into Jamie Smith’s gcherishs. Was there a little tickle? Absolutely not – the bat’s in Multan, the ball’s in Karachi.
78th over: Pakistan 226-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 25) I get the sense England are trying to rapidly get to that novel ball, with Root running actively thcdisesteemful another set.
77th over: Pakistan 225-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 24) Bashir bowls what he necessitates: a hushed over. There’s equitable one off it.
76th over: Pakistan 224-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 23) Root persists from the other finish, with Rizwan sweeping for one. The Pakistan geter has commenceed to discover some happiness after a hard commence agetst the rapids with the reversing ball.
75th over: Pakistan 223-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 22) Shoaib Bashir re-go ins the game and is promptly under the pump, Rizwan disposeing him for two boundaries thcdisesteemful proset up midwicket. Excengage the shameless plug, but this is someskinnyg I wrote about first Test hundreds a scant years ago.
Century for Kamran Ghulam!
Joe Root gets to have a twirl, with Ghulam nicking a one to shift to 98. Another one transports Ghulam back for the last two deinhabitries, and he sthrivegs apass the line off the final ball, all the way to the ropes to commemorate his mhelpen Test hundred! Root giveed a lureer, and Ghulam, who’s been mighty plrelieved to get some dangers, slapped that one difficult thcdisesteemful midwicket. An emphatic celebration chases. He’s the first Pakistani to hit a hundred on Test debut since Abid Ali in 2019.
74th over: Pakistan 218-4 (Ghulam 102, Rizwan 13)
73rd over: Pakistan 208-4 (Ghulam 97, Rizwan 12) Rizwan tries to channel his inner Ghulam, charging Potts for a savage hack; he doesn’t discover the middle. A mhelpen chases, with Ghulam, on the cusp of debut hundred, going two overs without the strike. And to test his patience further, it’s drinks.
72nd over: Pakistan 208-4 (Ghulam 97, Rizwan 12) Rizwan gets the forward defence out, aget and aget, before punching for a one to finish Leach’s over.
71st over: Pakistan 207-4 (Ghulam 97, Rizwan 11) Potts discovers some procrastinateed sthriveg with a yorker to Ghulam, who gets his toes out of the way to discover three thcdisesteemful the leg side. He shifts to 97.
Kim Thonger lays out some bars:
There once was a batter named Ghulam,
Whose bat was as sturdy as glulam.
He swung with fantastic might,
Hit sixes in fweightless,
Till the crowd broke out into bedlam!
70th over: Pakistan 203-4 (Ghulam 94, Rizwan 10) Leach finds some keen spin and bounce, getting one to rip past Rizwan’s forward prod.
69th over: Pakistan 200-4 (Ghulam 93, Rizwan 8) Matt Potts swaps Carse, who’s geted a breather. A snorter squares up Rizwan, beating the outside edge. Another edge chases, running low to give Rizwan a couple. Ooooh, a retake part at the finish of the over shows there was a very skinny edge on that Potts pearler.
Osman is the man to hear to here:
There are reasonable arguments to have not dropped Babar.
– Giving him the choice of being dropped is not one.
– Keeping him becaengage he’s a sellable brand is not another. https://t.co/TmwTvpVPvT
— Osman Samiuddin (@OsmanSamiuddin) October 15, 2024
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There are reasonable arguments to have not dropped Babar.
– Giving him the choice of being dropped is not one.
– Keeping him becaengage he’s a sellable brand is not another. https://t.co/TmwTvpVPvT— Osman Samiuddin (@OsmanSamiuddin) October 15, 2024
68th over: Pakistan 197-4 (Ghulam 92, Rizwan 6) Ghulam knocks Leach down the ground for one, transporting Rizwan on strike. He finpartner gets himself off none, driving thcdisesteemful cover for a couple. A sweep for four chases. Rizwan’s a wonderful take parter, a key man in Pakistan’s strong middle to drop order – he mediocres above 40 in every establishat of the game.
67th over: Pakistan 190-4 (Ghulam 91, Rizwan 0) Carse is causing Rizwan grave irritate, discovering the outside edge, but the ball doesn’t carry to slip. A wonderful away sthriveger chases, with Rizwan still paengageing to score his first runs – he got a duck in the first innings of the last Test. This is a spell of safe lines, decent shiftment and keen pace from Carse. A mhelpen gets Rizwan scoreless after facing 18 balls.
66th over: Pakistan 190-4 (Ghulam 91, Rizwan 0) Better from Ghulam, who runs down to Leach aget but gets to the pitch of the ball, sthriveging safely to nail a straight four. A aappreciate shot is repeated, the ball begined over mid-on for another boundary, moving Ghulam into the 90s.
65th over: Pakistan 182-4 (Ghulam 83, Rizwan 0) Ghulam take parts another savage shot, trying to smash Carse over Stokes’ umbrella field – he gets away with it, the ball flying high but safely over the cover region.
64th over: Pakistan 179-4 (Ghulam 80, Rizwan 0) This could be some relief for the presents, with Leach back on; the rapids were repartner troubling Pakistan. Don’t mind me: Ghulam is dropped at mid-on. The right-hander shimmies down the pitch to try and hit over mid-on, doesn’t get the insistd communicate, but a leaping Duckett, moving high and to his right, can’t hbetter on.
63rd over: Pakistan 178-4 (Ghulam 79, Rizwan 0) Carse nips the ball into Mohammad Rizwan’s pads to prompt a hearty lbw pguide … it’s an excellent shout but the finger doesn’t go up. England select agetst the appraise, perhaps skinnyking it’s going over the stumps. Carse has one get low to seal the over, with Rizwan proximately chopping on to the stumps. Pakistan are in a tricky spot.
62nd over: Pakistan 178-4 (Ghulam 79, Rizwan 0) Stokes has set up one of his inafraidating fields, with Ghulam staring at three men hovering in the seal cover region. Potts originates a mhelpen; Ghulam is on 79 but has struggled to score for a while now.
61st over: Pakistan 178-4 (Ghulam 79, Rizwan 0) Carse has figures of 1-6 after six overs. He’s been so amazeive over the last week.
WICKET! Shakeel c Smith b Carse 4 (Pakistan 178-4)
Carse tests Shakeel’s ticker, striking the left-hander’s gcherishs with a bouncer. There’s still reverse sthriveg out there, with Carse moving it into Shakeel. And then the one that shifts away to nab Shakeel’s outside edge! It’s a wonderful setup, inviting the prod outside off, and Jamie Smith gets a luminous catch behind the stumps, a very keen effort from a rapid Carse deinhabitry.
60th over: Pakistan 177-3 (Ghulam 79, Shakeel 4) Ghulam, having hit equitable one off his previous 21 deinhabitries, chooses to get a danger, making room for a basebpartner sthriveg thcdisesteemful mid-off for four off Potts.
59th over: Pakistan 173-3 (Ghulam 75, Shakeel 4) It’s Carse, not Stokes, who thunders in from the other finish, low mid-on and low-mid-off paengageing for a free drive from Saud Shakeel. Another mhelpen chases to originate further prescertain.
58th over: Pakistan 173-3 (Ghulam 75, Shakeel 4) Stokes persists with pace, Potts geting skinnygs safe with a mhelpen to Ghulam.
Time for the third session, with Pakistan operating responsibly thus far. Which transports me to my commute this morning: on a packed Northern Line, the man stood next to me – his armpit dangerening to envelop my face – was watching Luca Guadagnino’s fervently NSFW 2024 liberate, Challengers. It wasn’t someskinnyg he was continuing from the night before; no, he was watching it right from the commence. Thocdisesteemwholey maverick behaviour from the gilet-wearing finance bro. Now to see if Pakistan – those well-comprehendn agents of disorder – duplicate such savage behaviour. They’re contendnt of it.
They’re running thcdisesteemful the retake parts of Potts’ neglectal of Saim: it’s a fine setup, the seamer sfinishing the ball apass the left-hander on a excellent length before pitching filleder to ask the tentative push forward, Stokes positioned perfectly at low mid-off.
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57th over: Pakistan 173-3 (Ghulam 75, Shakeel 4) Stokes persists, bowling the final over of the session. Ghulam has been plrelieved to equitable persist agetst the England captain, and a one transports Saud Shakeel on to strike for the last two balls of the over. Stokes discovers the outside edge with the final ball, but Shakeel take parts with soft hands, the ball staying low to run away past slip for four. Time for some chai.
WICKET! Saim c Stokes b Potts 77 (Pakistan 168-3)
Matt Potts changes skinnygs up, going over the wicket to Saim. The seamer’s third deinhabitry of the over jags away from the left-hander before a expansiver ball is slashed difficult … to point. After five dots … a wicket! Saim drives without conviction, discovering Stokes at low mid-off. A efficient stand comes to a seal, Saim walking off with a Test-best if not a century.
56th over: Pakistan 168-3 (Ghulam 74)
55th over: Pakistan 168-2 (Ghulam 74, Saim 77) Stokes is operating at an mediocre speed of 80mph, still experienceing his way back from injury. He persists to see more dangerening agetst Ghulam, who take parts out four consecutive dots.
54th over: Pakistan 167-2 (Ghulam 74, Saim 76) Potts persists to skip in from around the wicket to Saim, geting it stump-to-stump for the first three balls, perhaps setting him up for a expansiver deinhabitry outside off to ask the edge. No, it’s the bouncer that chases with the fourth, but it flies a touch too high. Saim then deinhabitrs a gorgeous straight drive, with Harry Brook leaping spectacularly to stop the boundary.
53rd over: Pakistan 164-2 (Ghulam 74, Saim 73) Stokes discovers Ghulam’s outside edge aget … but the ball drops low of Joe Root at slip. It’s one skinnyg getting the ball to reverse, but there’s very little carry in this surface. Ghulam’s dealing with cramp aget, so there’s a fracture in take part. England engage it to get a helmet on Root’s head – he comes in sealr to the stumps. I don’t skinnyk I’ve ever seen slip wear a helmet before.
52nd over: Pakistan 162-2 (Ghulam 74, Saim 72) Potts sees a danger to Saim Ayub, getting the ball to hoop in and dispute the left-hander’s pads and stumps. He then gets one to shift away from Saim, who chases it and edges away to third man for a boundary. A more convincing stroke chases from Saim, who flicks off his pads for four, Potts going a touch too straight from around the wicket. An inside-edge seals the over, Saim proximately chopping on to his stumps.
51st over: Pakistan 152-2 (Ghulam 74, Saim 63) Stokes persists and unfurls a gorgeous outsthriveger agetst Ghulam, the ball sneaking past the outside edge. Another edge chases next ball, the ball geting low to run away to the third-man rope. Ghulam is getting a grave test here, with Stokes deciding to dispute the toes; out comes the yorker, dug out by the right-hander.
They’ve got a proper 2013 take partcatalog going in Multan as John Newman’s Love Me Aget rings out.
50th over: Pakistan 145-2 (Ghulam 68, Saim 62) Matt Potts is called in, Stokes recognising that it’s time for the rapids to go to toil. Potts transports the ball back into the left-handed Saim Ayub, conceding one from the over.
Showbizguru writes: “The theme tune from the 2012 Bond movie Skydrop seems to be a standard choice for fracture music at the Multan stadium. What England necessitate now is a Thunderball. I’ll get my coat.”
49th over: Pakistan 144-2 (Ghulam 68, Saim 61) Ben Stokes chooses to do it himself, taking off Brydon Carse. There’s a touch of reverse sthriveg in the air and Stokes comprehends how to harness it. He’s free to commence with, though; Ghulam punches thcdisesteemful the covers for a couple. The next ball is far more dangerening, with Stokes getting the ball to shift away from the right-hander. Ghulam calls over the Pakistan doc, potentipartner cramping up as he shakes his right hand; time for the TV cameras to fervently center on a man eating some ice-cream. As you do.
Dots chase before Stokes squares Gulham up with the final ball of the over, moving it away aget to discover the outside edge, the ball running away to the boundary for four. Nevermind the runs, there’s someskinnyg to take part with here for England.
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48th over: Pakistan 138-2 (Ghulam 62, Saim 61) Hello, all, cherishly to be here. Jack Leach persists after a scant words of wisdom/stateation/pleasant noskinnygs from captain Stokes. Kamran Ghulam skips down the pitch for a rather free hoick apass the line, getting a dense edge to accumulate three. Saim Ayub adventures down the wicket, too, take parting a cherishly lofted drive over mid-off for four.
47th over: Pakistan 131-2 (Saim 57, Ghulam 59) Stokes has choosed it’s time for Brydon Carse, whose name is crying out for the procrastinateed Tony Greig to be on commentary. His first ball, bowled from round the wicket to Saim, beats the inside edge and is excellently getn on the bounce by Jamie Smith. There’s noskinnyg he can do procrastinateedr in the over when Carse rams one down the leg side for four byes.
There was a hint of reverse sthriveg in that over – a mite, a soupçon – so this could be England’s opportunity. Taha Hashim will track every last millimeter of deviation; he’s ready to get over for the rest of the day’s take part. Bye!
46th over: Pakistan 127-2 (Saim 57, Ghulam 59) Ghulam’s rapid hands permit him to back cut Leach for two. It’s one skinnyg to come out at 19 for two on debut, quite another when your team are on their knees and you’re replacing their best take parter. In that context this has been a gem of an innings.
45th over: Pakistan 125-2 (Saim 57, Ghulam 57) Ghulam reverse sweeps Bashir for for, the first sign of impudence from him. Pakistan are inching towards what might be a very handy position. Let’s be genuine, we’re all hedging our bets becaengage we have no idea what this pitch will do. It might crumble finishly; it might stay appreciate this.
Ben Stokes has a see at the ball, chooses it isn’t reverse-ready and throws it back to Jack Leach.
