Manchester (Daily Pakistan Online) At the end of the third day of the first Test between Pakistan and England at Old Trafford in Manchester, Pakistan's batting line proved to be a wall of sand in the second innings. In the first innings, the English team piled up 219 runs and gave them a lead of 107 runs. England tarted the innings with 92 for 4, then Shadab Khan caught Oli Pope for a total of 127, who scored 62 runs. With a total score of 159, Jose Butler also gave up and scored 38 runs and was clean bowled by Yasir Shah. After adding only 2 runs to the total score, Dominic Base also started running. He scored 1 and was caught by Asad Shafiq on the ball of Yasir Shah.
England's eighth wicket also fell on a total score of 170 and Chris Vokes scored 19 runs and was bowled clean by Yasir Shah. England suffered a 9th wicket loss in the form of Joffra Archer who scored 16 runs and was caught by Muhammad Rizwan off Shadab Khan's ball while the last out was James Anderson who scored 7 runs and Shadab Khan LBW on the ball. Among other batsmen, Rory Burns scored 4, Dominic Sibley 8, Joe Root 14 while Ben Stokes could not score.
For Pakistan, Yasir Shah was the most successful bowler, guiding four wickets for 66 runs in 18 overs, while Muhammad Abbas and Shadab Khan took 2.2 wickets each. Fast bowlers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah managed to get one wicket each.
In the second innings, Pakistan's Shaun Masood was dismissed without scoring. Abid Ali 20, Azhar Ali 18, Babar Azam 5, Asad Shafiq 29, Muhammad Rizwan 27, Shadab Khan 15 and Shaheen Afridi were dismissed without scoring. Shah and Mohammad Abbas are present. For England, Broad, Stokes and Vokes took 2.2 wickets while Base took one wicket.
