ENG vs PAK: Pakistan whitewashed 0-3, Root-Cox hit sixes; England won Birmingham test by 8 wickets

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ENG vs PAK: The England team has performed brilliantly in the three-match Test series against Pakistan and made a clean sweep of 3-0. After the defeats in Leeds and London, Pakistan team had entered the Birmingham Test with the hope of making a comeback, but here too it had to face a crushing defeat. In the third test played at Edgbaston, England defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets.

Root and Cox gave easy victory

Let us tell you that England had a target of only 130 runs to win in the fourth innings. However, the team had a very bad start and Ben Duckett and Emilio Gay were out on the score of just 2 runs. After this, captain Joe Root and wicketkeeper batsman Jordan Cox took charge. Both the batsmen made a brilliant partnership of 128 runs in 140 balls for the third wicket and gave England an easy victory. Jordan Cox scored unbeaten 59 runs in 76 balls with the help of 8 fours. Whereas Joe Root played an unbeaten inning of 62 runs with 9 fours in 69 balls. For Pakistan, Mohammad Abbas took both the initial wickets, but after that he could not put pressure on England.

Pakistan's condition worsened in the first innings

In this match, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. Pakistan's first innings was reduced to just 133 runs. Saud Shakeel scored the highest score of 43 runs. Josh Tong bowled brilliantly for England and took 4 wickets. In response, England scored 453 runs in the first innings and took a huge lead of 320 runs. For England, Emilio Gay scored 60, Harry Brook 75, Dan Lawrence 65 and Jamie Smith scored 69 runs. Ollie Robinson also contributed 50 runs. for pakistan Razaullah took 4 wickets.

Pakistan tried to make a comeback in the second innings

Pakistan batted better in the second innings and scored 449 runs. Shan Masood was out after scoring 95 runs. He made a partnership of 125 runs with Azaan Owais and 89 runs with Babar Azam. Babar scored 76 runs. After this Mohammad Abbas and Razaullah added 121 runs for the ninth wicket. Razaullah played an inning of 81 runs. For England, Gus Atkinson took 3 wickets, while Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue and Dan Lawrence took 2 wickets each. Due to Pakistan's second innings, England got the target of 130 runs, but Root and Cox achieved it easily.

With this defeat, Pakistan lost the three-match Test series 0-3. England's dominance was seen in the entire series. This defeat was very disappointing for Pakistan and questions are also being raised on captain Babar Azam.

Status of WTC points table after England-Pak test series

Let us tell you that after winning the series against Pakistan, the England team has moved up one place from 7th to 6th in the points table of WTC 2025-27. Before this series, the England team was at number 7. Now his victory percentage (PCT) became 38.54. England has won 7 out of 16 Test matches played so far in this cycle and lost 8. At the same time, Pakistan team was already at the bottom 9th position in the points table and after the third Test defeat, its win percentage has further fallen to 14.81. Pakistan team has been able to win only 2 out of 9 test matches played so far. At present, the Australian team is at first position in the WTC points table. Australia has won 8 out of 10 matches and its winning percentage is 80.

At the same time, South Africa is at second place, New Zealand is at third place, Bangladesh is at fourth place and India is at fifth place. After this, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Pakistan are at sixth, 7th, 8th and 9th position respectively.

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