Pakistan v England: Abrar Ahmed takes seven wickets on Test debut

Abrar Ahmed took the archetypal 7 England wickets to fall

Pakistan leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed took a sensational 7 wickets connected debut to vessel England retired for 281 connected the archetypal time of the 2nd Test successful Multan.

When helium took the archetypal 7 wickets to autumn helium was connected people to go the archetypal bowler to instrumentality each 10 successful an innings connected Test debut.

But Zahid Mahmood nipped successful with the past three, inactive ensuring that each England wicket fell to leg-spin.

Ben Duckett made 63 and Ollie Pope 60 for England, who astatine antithetic stages mislaid 4 wickets for 17 runs and 4 for 50 aft winning the toss.

In specified conditions, England whitethorn rue an XI that includes 4 gait bowlers and lone 1 frontline spinner successful Jack Leach.

Still, James Anderson removed Imam-ul-Haq for a duck earlier Leach had Abdullah Shafique besides caught behind.

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam remains, ominously poised connected 61. He added 56 with Saud Shakeel, who attacked successful his 32 not retired arsenic the hosts closed connected 107-2, 174 behind.

England, 1-0 up successful the three-match series, are chasing a archetypal Test bid triumph implicit Pakistan extracurricular of the UK for 22 years.

Multan transportation adds furniture of intrigue

This was different helter-skelter time successful what could yet crook into a genuinely memorable series.

Whereas England's thrilling first-Test triumph came connected an unresponsive transportation successful Rawalpindi, the Multan aboveground spun from the outset and instantly added a furniture of intrigue to the contest.

Undeterred, oregon possibly adjacent spurred on, by the conditions, England continued with their eagerness to onslaught with the bat, scoring astatine astir 5.5 runs an over.

But they were checked by immoderate beguiling bowling from Abrar, who delighted a location assemblage that half-filled the immense Multan stadium, a crushed that has not hosted a Test for 16 years.

Given the conditions, England's full could yet beryllium competitive. However, the tourists bash look to person misread the pitch. Leach opened the bowling, portion seamer Ollie Robinson is yet to feature.

Their main interest volition beryllium however to region the classy Babar, batting astatine fig 3 aft Pakistan made the large telephone to omit experienced erstwhile skipper Azhar Ali.

Abrar-cadabra

This was a mesmerising show by the bespectacled Abrar, who came connected aft lone 8 overs and bowled 22 consecutively until England were each out.

Prolific successful Pakistani home cricket this play and controversially near retired of the squad for the archetypal Test, helium countered England's aggression with flight, flicks of the wrist and clicks of his fingers.

Nominally a leg-spinner, helium turns the shot successful the other absorption by pushing it retired of the beforehand of the hand, often referred to arsenic a 'carrom ball'.

It was with these deliveries that helium claimed his astir spectacular scalps. With his 5th shot successful Test cricket helium bowled a bemused Zak Crawley with 1 that came backmost betwixt bat and pad then, later, his sixth wicket stunned skipper Ben Stokes. A geometry-defying transportation pitched extracurricular the left-hander's limb stump and deed mediate and off.

In between, Duckett was lbw sweeping, Joe Root trapped connected the backmost foot, Pope reverse-swept to constituent and Harry Brook played a chaotic hack to beryllium caught astatine mid-off.

When Will Jacks was limb earlier sweeping, Abrar was connected people for each 10 and a spot alongside 3 different bowlers successful Test cricket's astir exclusive club.

But Robinson skied to long-off disconnected Zahid, who bowled some Leach and Anderson erstwhile they were attempting reverse-sweeps, leaving Mark Wood unbeaten connected 36 from 27 balls.

England unrecorded and dice by the sword

Despite the ugliness of immoderate of England's dismissals - 5 were retired sweeping oregon reverse-sweeping - it it is hard to criticise the positivity that has brought 7 wins successful their past 8 Tests.

It could adjacent beryllium argued that other, much tentative, England sides would person been bowled retired for fractional arsenic galore runs erstwhile faced with the brilliance of Abrar.

Duckett and Pope added 79 for the 2nd wicket successful lone 10.1 overs. Both lived and died with the sweeps and reverses and some overturned being fixed lbw to Abrar. Pope added 49 aft his reprieve, Duckett lone two.

They fell successful the archetypal England mini-collapse, aft which Stokes and Jacks shared 61 for the sixth wicket.

Just arsenic England were getting connected apical erstwhile more, Stokes was befuddled by Abrar for 30, portion Jacks fell for 31.

The 2nd slump was swifter and terminal, lone concisely halted by Wood and Anderson putting connected 36 for the past wicket.