Points table becomes interesting due to Pakistan's victory over England, Pakistan team is at this number
Under the captaincy of Shan Masood, Pakistan cricket team defeated England by 152 runs in the second test and leveled the series 1-1. With this victory, Pakistan's drought of 1348 days also ended and they won the Test match at home after a long time. This victory is also the first victory of Shan Masood's Test career as captain. Pakistan has won a Test match on home soil for the first time since February 2021.
With this victory, Pakistan has dealt a blow to England's hopes in the World Test Championship (WTC) points table. Pakistan did not get much benefit from this victory but England's hopes of reaching the final definitely got a blow. Despite this win, Pakistan remains at eighth position with 28 points and PCT of 25.93%.
Pakistan has participated in nine Test matches in this cycle and won three. Meanwhile, England is still in fourth place with 93 points and a PCT of 43.06%. With this defeat, the path to the final has become a little more difficult for England. At the same time, the situation of other teams remains the same. Now the teams of England and Pakistan will be seen gearing up for the third Test in Rawalpindi starting from October 24.
Talking about this match, the spinners of the team were the heroes of Pakistan's victory in the second test played in Multan. The situation was such that only two Pakistani players took 20 wickets out of 20 for England. Yes, we are talking about Sajid Khan and Noman Ali. Both these Pakistani spinners wreaked havoc on the English players. Sajid Khan took 7 wickets for 111 runs in 26.2 overs in England's first innings. At the same time, Noman Ali took 3 wickets for 101 runs in 28 overs. After this, when the English team came to bat in the second innings, the magic of Sajid and Noman was seen. The Pakistani captain did not bowl a single over to any other bowler and both these players bowled all the overs for Pakistan. In the second innings of England, Sajid took 2 wickets for 93 runs in 17 overs, while this time Noman took 8 wickets for 46 runs in 16.3 overs.
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