Leach leads England to record-breaking win

First Test, Multan (day 5 of five)

Pakistan 556: Masood 151 & 220: Salman 63; Leach 4-30

England 823-7 dec: Brook 317, Root 262

England won by an innings and 47 runs, pb three-match bid 1-0

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Jack Leach took the 3 wickets England required for a record-breaking triumph implicit Pakistan and a 1-0 pb successful the three-match series.

Though Pakistan began the 5th time six wickets down, Abrar Ahmed was absent done illness, and England were initially held up by Salman Agha and Aamer Jamal adding 109 for the seventh wicket.

Leach needed lone 4 deliveries to trap Salman lbw for 63, past took a crisp caught-and-bowled to region Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Naseem Shah charged to beryllium stumped, giving Leach 4-30 successful his archetypal Test since January.

Pakistan’s 220 each retired near England victors by an innings and 47 runs. No squad successful Test past has ever conceded arsenic galore arsenic the 556 arsenic England did successful Pakistan’s archetypal innings past gone connected to triumph by an innings.

It means England person present won connected 3 successive occasions erstwhile they person leaked totals successful excess of 500. Only erstwhile earlier person England fielded first, been deed for much runs and gone connected to triumph and that was successful 1894.

The turnaround was built connected a staggering batting effort, erstwhile England amassed their highest full since 1938, 823-7 declared. Harry Brook’s 317 was England’s archetypal triple-century for 34 years and his 454-run concern with Joe Root, who made 262, their highest successful Tests.

England person present won 4 consecutive Tests successful Pakistan and tin triumph the bid successful the 2nd Test connected the aforesaid ground, opening connected Tuesday.

England’s 3-0 triumph successful Pakistan 2 years agone was unprecedented and 1 of their all-time large bid triumphs.

In the cannon of their champion overseas wins, this astir apt does not rather interaction the 2022 opener successful Rawalpindi oregon their decision of India successful Hyderabad earlier this year, yet it volition unrecorded agelong successful the representation due to the fact that of the mind-boggling numbers.

Even with the discourse of an highly level transportation and immoderate fragile opponents, England’s batting achievements are astonishing. The triumph is made each the much awesome fixed the tourists’ abbreviated mentation time, inexperienced bowling onslaught and continued lack of skipper Ben Stokes.

Stokes stepped up his instrumentality from a hamstring wounded during this archetypal Test, bowling successful the mediate during intervals. He looks adjacent to being acceptable for the 2nd Test.

The skipper would astir apt travel successful for 1 of the 3 frontline seamers, astir apt Chris Woakes, who began England’s acceleration towards triumph by bowling Abdullah Shafique from the archetypal shot of Pakistan’s 2nd innings.

The hosts’ unravelling to 152-6 by the extremity of the 4th day, inactive 115 behind, meant their lone realistic anticipation connected the last time was avoiding the unwanted grounds for an innings defeat.

Jamal, who was dropped doubly connected Thursday, was deed connected the caput by Brydon Carse successful the solitary infinitesimal of discomfort Pakistan experienced successful the archetypal hour.

Salman backed up his first-innings century, lone to beryllium pinned connected the beforehand pad erstwhile England turned to left-arm spinner Leach.

Jamal attacked Carse’s bouncers, producing a steepling apical borderline that Ollie Pope dropped back-pedalling from quadrate leg.

But Jamal was near stranded connected 55 erstwhile Leach got Shaheen and Naseem successful the abstraction of 4 balls, giving England lone their 2nd Test triumph by an innings successful Asia, and archetypal since 1976.