{"id":12816,"date":"2022-12-20T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:31:45","slug":"pak-vs-eng-pakistan-whitewashed-on-home-soil-in-historic-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-eng-pakistan-whitewashed-on-home-soil-in-historic-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs Eng: Pakistan whitewashed on home soil in historic first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs Eng: Pakistan whitewashed on home soil in historic first. Pakistan saw on Tuesday a historic first-ever series whitewash on home soil after England won the third Test in Karachi by eight wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a modest target of 167 runs, the visitors reached home for the loss of two wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing his opening partner, Zak Crawley, after an explosive start of 87 runs, Ben Duckett continued the assault on Pakistan bowlers with a swashbuckling innings of 82 runs in 78 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Crawley scored run-a-ball 41 with the help of seven fours, while Pakistan&#8217;s Abrar Ahmed claimed two wickets for Pakistan in the second innings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@englandcricket<\/a> on winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvENG<\/a> Test series.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UKSePK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UKSePK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uCrsSvN47W\">pic.twitter.com\/uCrsSvN47W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1605099619268153346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, England were set a target of 167 runs to win the third and final Test after dismissing Pakistan for 216 in their second innings.<\/p>\n<p>Teenage leg-spinner Rehan finished with 5-48 and Jack Leach with 3-72 as Pakistan lost their last seven wickets for 52 on a spin-assisted National Stadium pitch.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/new-zealand-announce-odi-squad-for-pakistan-india-series.html\">New Zealand announce ODI squad for Pakistan &amp;#038; India series<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At 18 years and 126 days, Rehan became the youngest bowler in men&#8217;s Test history to take a five-wicket haul on debut. The leg-spinner beat the record held by Pat Cummins when he picked up his fifth wicket on day three of the Karachi Test.<\/p>\n<p>Rehan became the 53rd England bowler to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut, a feat that Will Jacks had achieved earlier in the series.<\/p>\n<p>For Pakistan, skipper Babar Azam scored 54 and Saud Shakeel 53.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam became the first Pakistani in six years to score 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year and the fourth batter to reach the milestone in 2022 during the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>He is the sixth Pakistani batter to reach 1,000 in a year, crossing the total when he reached 45 during an innings that ended on 54.<\/p>\n<p>Azam and Shakeel added 110 runs for the fourth wicket to put Pakistan in a decent position but the former&#8217;s dismissal, when the score had reached 164, started a collapse with the home being bowled out for 216.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan lost their last seven wickets in the second innings while adding only 52 runs.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that England took full advantage of winning the toss \u2014 and their batting depth \u2014 to win the first Test by 74 runs on a dead wicket that offered nothing to the bowlers.<\/p>\n<p>Rawalpindi yielded 1,768 runs in four innings \u2014 the third most in Test history \u2014 with seven individual centuries and five fifties.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benstokes38\">Ben Stokes<\/a>-led unit won the second Test in Multan by 26 runs after Pakistan failed to chase down a target of 355 runs.<\/p>\n<p>England were on their first Test tour of Pakistan since 2005, having declined to visit in the interim years on security grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs Eng: Pakistan whitewashed on home soil in historic first. Pakistan saw on Tuesday a historic first-ever series whitewash on home soil after England won the third Test in Karachi by eight wickets. Chasing a modest target of 167 runs, the visitors reached home for the loss of two wickets. Despite losing his opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[7850,694,507,7853,7851,138],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-abrar-ahmed","tag-babar-azam","tag-england","tag-odi","tag-pec","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","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=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}