Rahul Tiwari
khelja|18-10-2024
Pakistan team finally got victory. His wait to win a Test match on home soil has finally ended. In the match in which Babar Azam was dropped, Pakistan registered a big win by 152 runs. In the second test of the series played in Multan, Pakistan defeated England in just 4 days. The hero of Pakistan's victory was its spinner, who took all 20 wickets. With this spectacular victory, Pakistan's 1338-day long wait also came to an end.
In the second test match played in Multan, Pakistan had set a target of 297 runs for victory against England. England's batsmen, who came to chase this target, surrendered to the Pakistani spinners on the Multan pitch. Noman Ali alone overpowered 8 batsmen of England. The result was that the entire team together could not even score 150 runs. Chasing the target, the England team could score only 144 runs in its second innings and lost the match.
Pakistan batted first in the Multan Test. In his first innings, he scored 366 runs on the basis of a century by Kamran Ghulam, who replaced Babar Azam and made his debut in the team. Kamran Ghulam played an inning of 118 runs. After this, England scored 291 runs in its first innings. Salman Aga scored 63 runs for Pakistan in the second innings. Pakistan's second innings ended at 221 runs. In this way England got the target of 297 runs.
England had full time to achieve the target of 297 runs, but despite having time, they could not reach the destination because the illusion woven by Pakistani spinners remained beyond their understanding. Noman Ali and Sajid Khan together defeated the English batsmen in both the innings. In the first inning, Sajid Khan took 7 wickets and Noman Ali took 3 wickets, while in the second inning, Noman Ali took 8 wickets while Sajid took 2 wickets. That means, out of 20, Noman Ali took 11 wickets while Sajid Khan took 9 wickets.
England won the first test played in Multan. In the second test, Pakistan defeated England. With this, the 3 test match series is now tied at 1-1. By winning the second Test played in Multan, Pakistan also ended its wait of not winning a Test match on home soil for 1348 days. He won the last Test on home soil in February 2021.