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Pakistan Test skipper Shan Masood has to deflect immoderate uncomfortable questions from Ramiz Raja aft the Men successful Green won the 3rd Test lucifer against England, thereby clinching a location bid since 2021. (AP and File)
Pakistan Test skipper Shan Masood has to deflect immoderate uncomfortable questions from Ramiz Raja aft the Men successful Green won the 3rd Test lucifer against England, thereby clinching a location bid since 2021.
Raja, however, decided to absorption connected Pakistan’s woeful signifier astatine location earlier this bid triumph asking Masood however they had managed to suffer 6 matches successful a row.
“Aapne 6 losses successful a enactment kaise execute kiya? (How did you execute six losses successful a row?),” Raja asked the Pakistan skipper which caught Masood disconnected guard.
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But helium composed himself and replied, “Ramiz bhai, we needed this win, the federation needed this triumph and I’m truly blessed that Pakistan won.”
In the match, spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan suppressed England’s batting onslaught wrong 3 days and earned Pakistan a long-awaited and series-clinching nine-wicket triumph successful the 3rd and last Test connected Saturday.
The 38-year-old left-arm spinner Ali and off-spinner Khan, 31, had grabbed each 20 wickets connected a recycled 2nd Test transportation to level the bid past week and yet again clipped the batters connected an engineered adust aboveground by sharing 19 wickets arsenic England was dismissed for 112 connected Day 3.
It was England’s lowest innings full successful Pakistan, eclipsing its erstwhile people of 130 each retired successful Lahore successful 1987.
Pakistan, which got a meaningful 77-run archetypal innings lead, reached 37-1 astatine the changeable of luncheon to notch its archetypal location bid triumph since 2021 erstwhile it bushed South Africa 2-0.
Skipper Masood (23 not out), who mislaid six successive trial matches arsenic skipper earlier England got beaten successful the 2nd test, sealed the triumph with a six implicit long-off against Shoaib Bashir aft smashing 4 successive boundaries to Jack Leach.
“It’s special,” Masood said. “The archetypal triumph came aft a agelong clip and it was backed up by a bid triumph … it’s astir character. To beryllium present and lasting arsenic the wining team, it’s the astir peculiar happening for us.” Leach grabbed the lone wicket to autumn erstwhile helium successfully went for an lbw tv referral against Saim Ayub, who made eight.
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