Pakistan’s Shan Masood, left, receives trophy after successful the collection towards England by 2-1, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on October 26, 2024.
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Pakistan captain Shan Masood stated his staff confirmed super character to register back-to-back victories towards England and win their first take a look at collection on dwelling soil since 2021.
Smarting from an innings defeat within the collection opener, Pakistan levelled the collection in Multan earlier than arriving in Rawalpindi the place they rolled out a raging turner.
Their spin twins Noman Ali and Sajid Khan claimed 19 of the 20 English wickets to bowl Pakistan to a nine-wicket win that additionally secured their 2-1 collection victory on Saturday (October 26, 2024).
“Like London buses they arrive collectively,” Shan stated of their successive victories within the collection.
“The primary win got here after a very long time and it was backed up by a collection win. It is particular.”
After dropping the opener, Pakistan took a daring choice name by dropping three frontline gamers – batter Babar Azam and the tempo duo of Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi.
Sajid and Noman have been introduced in and the duo claimed 39 of the 40 English wickets within the final two exams, aside from producing helpful cameos with the bat, to vindicate the transfer.
Sajid lower his chin whereas batting on Friday and needed to change his bloodied shirt however returned on Saturday to spin an online across the English batters.
“For everybody to face up and provides their finest means so much,” stated Shan, who sealed Pakistan’s victory with a six off England spinner Shoaib Bashir.
“It’s about characters, folks you may belief, folks you assume can bleed for you – Sajid actually bled for us yesterday.
“To be right here and standing because the successful staff is probably the most particular factor for us.”
England folded for a meagre 112 of their second innings with solely Joe Root (33) wanting comfy towards Pakistan’s rampaging spinners.
Their regular ways of swashbuckling batting have seemed considerably one-dimensional and insufficient on turning tracks and towards in-form spinners.
“The final couple of exams we have been thrown some challenges, and I believe it is fairly simple to evaluate that have been weren’t capable of stand as much as these challenges,” stated England captain Ben Stokes.
“The wonderful thing about sport is that these challenges will all the time come alongside, however within the final two video games we weren’t capable of match what Pakistan threw at us.
“We have got a really fast turnaround to a different problem in New Zealand, so we have got to place the frustration of the final two video games behind us and transfer on.”
Printed – October 26, 2024 03:05 pm IST
