Pakistan team lost at home after scoring 556 runs in the first innings. This happened for the first time in the history of nearly 150 years of Test cricket. It is not that no team has lost after scoring 556 runs in the first innings. In 2003, India defeated Australia and in 2012, West Indies defeated Bangladesh. But Pakistan's defeat in Multan is shameful because it has become the first team in the world which lost the match by a huge margin of innings even after scoring 556 runs in the first innings. That too in his own house. Where he got the wicket of his choice made.

Luck favored him and the toss also went in his favor. On a wicket where there was no help for the bowlers, three Pakistani batsmen scored centuries in the first innings. Captain Shan Masood is also included in this. In the Multan Test, opener Abdullah Shafiq scored 102, captain Shan Masood scored 151 and Salman Agha scored 104 not out. Saud Shakeel also came close to his century and was out for 82 runs otherwise there would have been four centuries in one innings. But in the second innings, when they had to bat under pressure, the same batsmen were seen kneeling. The pitch was the same on which there was nothing for the bowlers. The batsmen were also the same. Only the circumstances had changed and it was these changed circumstances that pushed Pakistan towards a shameful defeat.

The pressure of 267 runs was heavy on Pakistan

On the basis of first innings, England had a lead of 267 runs. To achieve this lead he showed amazing courage. England's batsmen scored runs at a run-rate of around five and a half. Harry Brook scored 300 runs in 310 balls. Which is the second fastest century in the history of Test cricket. This strategy of England also has a connection with Team India. Recently the Indian team defeated Bangladesh in the Kanpur Test. About two and a half days of play in the Kanpur Test was lost to rain. After this, when the Indian team came out to bat, it added a record fifty runs in the first three overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal made his intentions clear by hitting three fours in the first over and Rohit Sharma hit two sixes in the second over.

The simple strategy was to sit in the 'driving seat' of the match. Rohit Sharma had also said after the match that we were not worried about how we would score runs, we were just thinking about how many overs we would bowl Bangladesh out in the second innings. India had scored runs at a run rate of more than 8 in the Kanpur Test. Exactly the same strategy was followed by the England team in Multan. He also added more than 800 runs at a run rate of five and a half. This is a different level of cricket, in which the team has only one objective – to win the match. Whatever way you have to play for that.

Where will Pakistan's Test cricket go below this?

Before this series against England, Bangladesh had defeated Pakistan in two consecutive Test matches in Rawalpindi. This was the first time in Pakistan's Test history that it had to face defeat against Bangladesh. The result of the Multan Test against England clearly shows that even its home is no longer safe for Pakistan. In the last 10 years, Pakistan team has lost more matches at home than it has won. This figure is of 30 and 36. That means, in the last 10 years, Pakistan has won 30 matches at home while it has faced defeat in 36. In the last 10 years, the Indian team has lost only 4 test matches at home. This figure shows that Pakistan team is continuously going into the trough.

Sadly, Pakistan's performance is not good for Test cricket. Not good for the fans. It would not be right to blame the players alone for this plight. Players enter the field in every match with the fear that 'somehow they will lose'... 'somehow they will lose'. This fear gradually begins to creep into their heads. As a result, Pakistan has become such a team that after T20 and ODI, now it has to face vicissitudes in Test cricket also.

The biggest problem lies within the Pakistan Cricket Board. Where dirty politics is affecting the performance of the team. It has become a habit of the board to change the captain after every series and make scapegoats of one or two players. Players like Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi were promoted so much that they forgot their own strength. Shaheen Shah Afridi got only one wicket in the match in which England bowlers took 20 wickets. In the test match in which five centuries were scored, Babar Azam played innings of 30 and 5 runs. Overall, the story is such that today the souls of dozens of great players like Fazal Mahmood, Hanif Mohammad must be crying that with so much hard work they had given Pakistan cricket recognition in world cricket, today it has become a team which loses. To escape the fear, she digs a pit for the opposing team and falls into it herself.