Pakistan vs England 1st Test: Pakistan captain Shan Masood created history by scoring a stormy half-century in the first Test match being played against England at Multan Cricket Stadium. Batting first after losing the toss…

Pakistan vs England 1st Test: Pakistan captain Shan Masood created history by scoring a stormy half-century in the first Test match being played against England at Multan Cricket Stadium. Pakistan team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, had a bad start, after which Masood along with Abdullah Shafiq made a century partnership for the second wicket.

During this partnership, Masood completed his half-century in 43 balls. With this, he has achieved a feat which no captain of Pakistan could do against England in the 70 years of Test history. He is the first Pakistani captain to complete a half-century in less than 50 balls in a Test against England.

Let us tell you that Pakistan's total score of 8 runs was dealt the first blow in the form of Saim Ayub, who was caught by Gus Atkinson to wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.

Batting brilliantly, this is the fifth century of Masood's Test career and the first as the captain of Pakistan, which he completed in 102 balls. He has scored a century with his bat after 4 years in this format. Earlier in 2020, he had played an inning of 156 runs against England in Manchester.

During this century innings, Masood also completed his 2000 runs in Test cricket.

The teams are as follows

Pakistan (Playing XI): Sam Ayub, Abdullah Shafiq, Shan Masood (captain), Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket-keeper), Agha Salman, Aamir Jamal, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed.

England (Playing XI): Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir.