Pakistan vs England 1st Test: The pair of Pakistan captain Shan Masood and opening batsman Abdullah Shafique opened the first innings of the first Test match being played against England at the Multan Cricket Stadium.

Pakistan vs England 1st Test: The pair of Pakistan captain Shan Masood and opening batsman Abdullah Shafique created history with a brilliant partnership in the first innings of the first Test match being played against England at the Multan Cricket Stadium. . After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Pakistan had a bad start and got the first blow in the form of Saim Ayub on a total score of 8 runs. After this, Masood and Shafiq together took charge of the innings and made a partnership of more than 200 runs.

Equality of Sehwag and Tendulkar

This happened only twice before with the pair of Masood and Shafiq, when there was a partnership of 200 or more runs at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Earlier, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar had achieved this feat against Pakistan in 2004, while Brian Lara and Dwayne Bravo had achieved this feat against Pakistan in 2006.

This happened after 53 years

This has happened after 53 years when Pakistan's batsmen have made a partnership of 200 or more runs in a Test against England. Earlier in 1971, Mushtaq Mohammad and Zaheer Abbas had made a partnership of 291 runs against England in Birmingham.

Let us tell you that during this partnership, Masood scored his fifth Test century and first century as captain. This is his first century in this format after 2020.

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.