England vs Pakistan: Harry Brook scores scintillating 317 before hosts collapse on day four of first Test in Multan | Cricket News
Harry Brook posted England’s fifth-highest ever Test score as they racked up 823-7, before their bowlers reduced Pakistan to 152-6 in their second innings to still trail by 115 runs at the end of day four of the first Test in Multan.
Brook (317) hit England’s first triple hundred since 1990 – and only the sixth ever – off 322 balls as he shared an utterly exhausting yet brilliant 454-run partnership with fellow Yorkshireman Joe Root (262) – the highest-ever partnership for England, surpassing Peter May and Colin Cowdrey’s record of 411 which had stood since 1957.
It was just the fourth Test innings in which a team has scored more than 800 runs, and the first since Sri Lanka’s Test record total of 952-6 against India in 1997.
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England then made an immediate impact with the ball, first-innings centurion Abdullah Shafique bowled first ball by Chris Woakes (1-29) before Gus Atkinson (2-28) had Pakistan captain Shan Masood caught for 11.
The hosts were reduced to 41-4 and then 82-6 but Salman Ali Agha (40no) and Aamer Jamal (24no) provided much-needed resistance to the batting line-up with an unbeaten partnership of 70, carefully guiding their side to 152-6 at stumps, trailing England by 115 runs.
More to follow…
First Test: Multan – October 7-11
Second Test: Multan – October 15-19
Third Test: Rawalpindi – October 24-28
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Watch day four of the first Test between Pakistan and England in Multan, live on Sky Sports Cricket and Main Event from 5.50am on Thursday, ahead of play starting from 6am. Stream with NOW
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