The England team has come close to winning the Multan Test against Pakistan. On the fourth day of the match on Thursday, England declared the first innings at a score of 823/7. The team got a lead of 267 runs. In response, by the end of the day's play, Pakistan had lost 6 wickets for 152 runs in the second innings.
The English team started the fourth day with a score of 492/3. Earlier, the Pakistan team was all out for 556 runs in the first innings.
Aga Salman remained unbeaten scoring 41 runs In the second innings for Pakistan, Agha Salman scored 41 runs and Aamir Jamal returned unbeaten with 27 runs. Saeed Shakeel scored 29 runs, Saim Ayub scored 25 runs, Shan Masood scored 11 runs, Babar Azam scored 5 runs and Mohammad Rizwan scored 10 runs. Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carus have taken 2 wickets each in the second innings for England so far. Jack Leach and Chris Woakes got 1 wicket each.
Brook broke Sehwag's record In the first innings for England, Chris Woakes returned unbeaten on 17 and Brydon Carse returned unbeaten on 2. Harry Brook played an innings of 317 runs. He broke Virender Sehwag's 20-year-old record in Multan. Sehwag played an innings of 309 runs against Pakistan in 2004. Sehwag was then given the tag of 'Sultan of Multan'. Apart from Brook, Joe Root was dismissed for 262 runs. Ben Duckett scored 84 and Jack Crowley scored 78 runs.
Jo routed out for 262 runs, breaking the partnership of 454 runs Joe Root and Harry Brook shared a partnership of 454 runs. Aga Salman broke this partnership by dismissing Root. Ollie Pope came in to play Root after being dismissed for 4 runs.
England's score was close to 500 on the third day A day ago on Wednesday, the England team had reached close to 500. At the end of the third day's play, the team scored 492 runs for three wickets. Joe Root and Harry Brook were unbeaten. Root is close to a double century with 176 runs. While Harry Brook has scored 141 runs. An unbeaten 243-run partnership between the two. Ben Duckett (84 runs) was dismissed LBW off the bowling of Aamir Jamal.
Has become England's top scorer in the Root Test. Root has surpassed former opener Alastair Cook (12472 runs) for his own country. He is number five in the list of highest run scorers.
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