The England cricket team is currently on a tour of Pakistan. A 3-match test series is being played between the two teams. The first match of the series is being played at Multan Stadium. The first day of this match was in the name of Pakistan. Pakistan's batsmen scored a lot of runs on a flat pitch. But the former captain of the team is not playing big innings even on this flat pitch and his poor form still continues. Babar Azam was out in the first innings of this match on the ball of a bowler who took a Test wicket in Asia for the last time in the year 2016.
Babar Azam seems to be in very bad form for some time now. No big innings have been seen from his bat. But looking at the flat pitch of Multan, it was believed that Babar could play a big innings in this match. But he could score only 30 runs on 71 balls and lost his wicket. Babar Azam was out LBW by England fast bowler Chris Woakes. Babar also took DRS, but he was clean out.
This wicket was very special for Chris Woakes. Actually, Chris Woakes took a Test wicket in Asia after waiting for 2858 days. Before this, he had taken his last Test wicket in Asia during the India tour in 2016. Then Chris Woakes took the wicket of Virat Kohli. Now after 8 years, Chris Woakes has ended this wait by dismissing Babar.
These days, for Babar Azam, let alone scoring a century in Tests, even completing a half-century has become a dream. He has been flopping continuously not for the last 1 or 2 innings but for 17 innings. Babar Azam has not scored a single half-century in the last 17 innings of the Test. He also recently left the captaincy of the ODI and T20 team and said that he wants to concentrate on his game. But nothing like this was seen in the first innings of this match.
With centuries from captain Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafiq, Pakistan strengthened its position by scoring 328 runs for four wickets on the first day of the first cricket test against England. On the second day of the game, Pakistan will try to add as many runs as possible to this score. Scoring his first Test century in four years, Masood scored 151 runs in 177 balls while opener Shafiq played an inning of 102 runs. Both of them also made a big partnership of 253 runs for the second wicket. At the end of the day's play, Saud Shakeel was playing with 35 runs while night watchman Naseem Shah has not yet opened his account. At the same time, for England, Gus Atkinson took maximum 2 wickets on the first day. At the same time, Jack Leach also got 1 success.
