{"id":12766,"date":"2022-12-18T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:41:35","slug":"brook-ton-powers-england-to-narrow-lead-in-karachi-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/brook-ton-powers-england-to-narrow-lead-in-karachi-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Brook ton powers England to narrow lead in Karachi Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brook ton powers England to narrow lead in Karachi Test. Harry Brook scored his third century in as many matches while Ben Foakes hit a half-century as England eked out a lead of 29 over Pakistan at the end of day two of the final Test of the series at Karachi’s National Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Brook made 111 to continue his excellent start to Test cricket, with the 23-year-old proving to be the glue in England’s innings, putting on partnerships with Ollie Pope and captain Ben Stokes<\/a> before a stand of 117 with Foakes.<\/p>\n

Spinners Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed played a big role in stemming England’s flow on either side of the sixth-wicket stand, picking up four wickets apiece as the visitors were eventually dismissed for 354, in response to Pakistan’s first innings total of 304.<\/p>\n

England lost two wickets in quick succession shortly after resuming on 7-1, with Nauman first trapping Ben Duckett lbw and then getting Joe Root to depart for a duck after being caught in the slips on the next delivery.<\/p>\n

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Nauman was denied a hat-trick by Brook, who kept England’s chase going, despite Pope being bowled by Abrar and Stokes losing his wicket in a run out following a mix-up between the batters.<\/p>\n

Brook and Foakes then revived England’s innings, building a defiant partnership which ended when Mohammad Wasim was able to find a chink in Brook’s armour to dismiss him lbw.<\/p>\n

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Foakes valiantly fought on, scoring 64, but skied a delivery from Nauman to mid-on, where it was caught by Abdullah Shafique.<\/p>\n

The last bit of English resistance came courtesy of Jack Leach and Ollie Robinson, who combined for 30 runs before Robinson was bowled by Abrar to end England’s innings.<\/p>\n

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England were unable to take any wickets in the few overs that Pakistan batted on day two, with Shafique ending on 14 while Shan Masood was on 3.<\/p>\n

England won the opening Test by 74 runs and then sealed a 26-run victory in the second to secure their first series victory in Pakistan since 2000-01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brook ton powers England to narrow lead in Karachi Test. Harry Brook scored his third century in as many matches while Ben Foakes hit a half-century as England eked out a lead of 29 over Pakistan at the end of day two of the final Test of the series at Karachi’s National Stadium on Sunday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,7810,507,650,138,364],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-ben-stokes","tag-england","tag-ramiz-raja","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}