England has also won the second match of the three-match Test series against Pakistan by 26 runs. With this victory, the England team has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. The English team has won a Test series in Pakistan after 22 years.

At the same time, Ben Stokes has become the third captain of England, who has won a Test series in Pakistan. Before Stokes, Nasser Hussain and Ted Dexter have won the Test series here.

In the second match, England won the toss and decided to bat first. Ben Duckett’s 63, Ollie Pope’s 60, captain Stokes 30, Will Jacks 31 and Mark Wood’s 36 helped England score 281 in the first innings. Abrar Ahmed took seven wickets and Zahid Mahmood took three wickets for Pakistan. In response, Pakistan’s team was able to score 202 runs and fell behind by 79 runs.

Out of which skipper Babar scored 75 and Saud Shakeel scored 63, but the rest of the batsmen flopped against English bowlers. Faheem Ashraf was Pakistan team’s third highest run-scorer with 22 runs. Jack Leach took four wickets for England, Mark Wood and Joe Root took two wickets each Anderson got 1 wicket.

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In their second innings, England scored 275 runs and set a target of 355 runs in front of Pakistan. Harry Brook scored 108 for England in the second innings. Ben Duckett scored 79 and Captain Stokes scored 41 runs. Pakistan’s Abrar Ahmed took four wickets and Zahid Mahmood took three wickets and lastly, Nawaz got the last wicket.

Chasing 355, Pakistan got off to a good start. The pair of Shafiq and Rizwan added 66 runs for the first wicket. Rizwan 30 and Shafiq got out after scoring 30 runs. Captain Babar got out after scoring just one run. Saud Shakeel scored 94 and Imam-ul-Haq scored 60 to put the team in a strong position, but again the team flopped after no batsman could play a big innings. Nawaz scored 45 runs, but it was not enough to win against England, In the end, Pakistan’s team was able to score only 328 runs and lost by 26 runs. Mark Wood took four wickets for England.

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India has registered a big win against England in the third test match before end of Day 2 at Narendra Modi Stadium Ahmadabad on Thursday. Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are on the crease to take a 2-1 lead in the four match series.

Earlier on Day 2, India posted a first innings score of 145 in response to England’s 112, taking a lead of 33 runs. Indian pacer Ishant Sharma, in his 100th Test, with Jasprit Bumrah added 11 crucial runs for India, who collapsed from 98/2 to 145 all out.

For the visitors, Joe Root was in top form, registering five wickets. He took the wickets of Rishabh Pant, Washington Sundar, Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah. Meanwhile, Leach dismissed Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane. England’s Leach picked 3 and Archer picked 1.

The visitors put in a poor start, has lost quick wickets of Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Dom Sibley, Joe Root and Ben Foakes. The entire England team has returned to pavilion scoring just 81 runs.

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The duo of Ashwin and Axar thrashed the England’s batting order.  Axar Patel was on fire, taking the wickets of Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Dom Sibley, Joe Root and Ben Foakes while Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jofra Archer and Jack Leach. Also, Washington Sundar took the wicket of James Anderson.

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday achieved a rare feat and became the second-fastest bowler in the world after former Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan to claim 400 wickets in Test cricket. Axar also has taken his first-ever 10-wicket match haul.

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