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Pakistan skipper Shan Masood says helium would similar different spinning transportation for the 3rd Test against England successful Rawalpindi aft specified a aboveground helped his broadside acceptable up a bid decider.
The hosts completed a 152-run triumph aboriginal connected time 4 of the 2nd Test successful Multan, having opted to reuse the aforesaid playing aboveground from England's triumph successful the archetypal Test.
All 20 England wickets fell to spinners Sajid Khan and Noman Ali, with the surface, connected which the tourists scored 823-7 declared past week, deteriorating significantly.
"We’re hoping the prima tin play its portion and the wicket tin beryllium connected the drier side," said Masood, whose broadside ended an 11-Test winless tally astatine home.
"It remains to beryllium seen. We’ll effort to make a bully Test transportation wherever some teams tin prime up 20 wickets."
Pakistan picked an XI with 7 rotation options and lone 1 gait bowler connected the backmost of their dense decision successful the archetypal Test.
Helped by winning the flip and truthful having the champion of the batting conditions connected time one, Pakistan dismissed England for 291 and 144 arsenic the transportation steadily took much crook and little bounce.
Asked if helium would similar different spinning transportation successful Rawalpindi, wherever the aboveground is usually the champion for batting successful the world, Masood said: "I would, but I don't cognize if I've ever seen it crook successful Rawalpindi.
"That's different issue."
England mislaid their 8 remaining wickets earlier luncheon connected Friday greeting to beryllium dismissed for 144 successful pursuit of 297.
Captain Ben Stokes stopped abbreviated of criticising the aboveground but said Pakistan winning the flip was a "massive" factor.
"They utilized the location conditions successful their favour," helium said.
"If we had won the flip it could person been wholly antithetic and it would person looked similar a silly decision.
"The flip was ever going to beryllium massive, maine and Shan knew that."
Despite the defeat, Stokes said England's fourth-innings people was "pretty decent" connected the surface.
England fell down the crippled erstwhile they conceded a 75-run shortage aft the archetypal innings and past erstwhile Jamie Smith and Joe Root dropped Salman Ali Agha, who went connected to marque 63, successful the abstraction of 3 balls successful the 2nd innings erstwhile Pakistan's pb was beneath 200.
Stokes was visibly frustrated connected the tract aft the 2nd missed chance, for which helium said helium has apologised to the team.
"It's the archetypal clip successful my captaincy that I've fto my emotions astir the crippled and however it was unfolding amusement with my assemblage language," Stokes told Sky Sports.
"I ain up to that and I'm precise annoyed with myself for letting that out. It's thing I don't privation to bash oregon beryllium seen to beryllium doing truthful I apologised to the group.
"I was a tired, grumpy aged antheral but you won't spot that again."
Victory for Pakistan was their archetypal astatine location since 2021 and their archetypal nether Masood successful his seventh lucifer arsenic captain.
"That’s not acceptable for Pakistan cricket," the batter said. "We pridefulness ourselves connected however good we play this crippled and however we spot ourselves arsenic a team.
"Hopefully we tin commencement thing present successful location conditions."
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