England humbled by Pakistan in thumping defeat to lose Test series

England person mislaid the three-match bid successful Pakistan 2-1 aft the hosts recorded a thumping triumph successful the 3rd and last Test successful Rawalpindi

England person mislaid their Test bid successful Pakistan 2-1 aft a humbling nine-wicket decision successful Rawalpindi.

Spin twins Sajid Khan and Noman Ali took each 10 wickets arsenic Ben Stokes' broadside were knocked implicit for conscionable 112 successful their 2nd innings. It was the archetypal clip successful Test past Pakistan completed a Test lucifer without bowling a azygous implicit of pace.

Skipper Shan Masood cracked 23 disconnected conscionable six balls arsenic the hosts raced to their humble people of 36 to grounds victory. England started the bid good by winning the archetypal Test, but successive defeats present leaves a batch of question marks up of a bid successful New Zealand.

The mode successful which Pakistan person artificially aged the past 2 pitches with fans, heaters and possibly adjacent rakes has raised eyebrows but back-to-back thrashings against a broadside who had not won a location Test, fto unsocial a series, since aboriginal 2021 inactive represents a important setback.

Khan and Ali remarkably took 39 retired of 40 England wickets since their recalls up of the 2nd Test, with lone a solitary scalp from Zahid Mahmood spoiled their prospects of a afloat house.

Yet England were manifestly not up to task, with skipper Ben Stokes aptly ending his innings connected his knees aft being trapped lbw offering nary stroke.

Only Yorkshire duo Joe Root and Harry Brook passed 20 successful England's 2nd innings, with Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley continuing their atrocious runs of signifier with the bat.

England present bash not instrumentality to the subcontinent until February 2027 for a circuit of Bangladesh having been demolished 4-1 by India connected their erstwhile sojourn earlier this latest bid defeat.

The white-ball broadside present caput to the Caribbean for some ODI and T20 bid against the West Indies earlier 3 Tests successful New Zealand earlier Christmas.