Madras Times - England pile up mammoth 657 against Pakistan in first Test

NYSE - LSE
BCC -0.79% 67.39 $
GSK 0.52% 50.45 $
RIO -0.4% 82.95 $
BCE 0.37% 21.43 $
AZN 0.04% 184.45 $
CMSC -1.14% 19.28 $
RYCEF 1.35% 17.8 $
NGG 0.82% 84.29 $
RBGPF 0% 76.02 $
CMSD -1.14% 19.29 $
RELX 1.16% 40.51 $
JRI -1.21% 11.29 $
BP 0.87% 45.7 $
VOD -0.78% 15.37 $
BTI 1.37% 61.89 $
England pile up mammoth 657 against Pakistan in first Test
England pile up mammoth 657 against Pakistan in first Test / Photo: Aamir QURESHI - AFP

England pile up mammoth 657 against Pakistan in first Test

England piled up a mammoth 657 runs before being all out Friday on the second day of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.

Text size:

Resuming at 506-4, the tourists added 151 runs in 125 minutes, with Harry Brook taking his overnight score of 101 to 153 -- one of four centurions in the innings.

Skipper Ben Stokes (41), debutant Liam Livingstone (nine), and Brook -- were all dismissed by pacer Naseem Shah, who finished with 3-140.

Leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood conceded 235 for his four wickets -- the most by a bowler on a Test debut.

On Thursday England became the first team to score 500 runs on the opening day of a Test match, bettering Australia's 112-year-old record of 494-6 against South Africa in Sydney.

Zak Crawley (122), Ollie Pope (108), and Ben Duckett (107) were the other centurions in the innings.

The three-match Test series is England's first in Pakistan for 17 years.

U.Varma--MT