England’s record-breaking innings played in almost deserted stadium despite tickets being available for FREE

JOE ROOT and Harry Brook acceptable a caller grounds for the highest Test Partnership successful England past - but it each happened wrong an astir bare stadium successful Pakistan.

This comes aft tickets were disposable for FREE wrong the Multan Cricket Stadium.

England racked up 823-7 against Pakistan earlier stand-in skipper Ollie Pope declared successful the archetypal Test successful Multan.

Brook deed a triple period and Root made a treble ton arsenic records tumbled.

Together, they surpassed England's erstwhile grounds concern of 409 runs - acceptable by Colin May and Peter Cowdry against the West Indies successful 1957.

When Root yet fell for 262, it brought an extremity to a concern of 454 - the fourth-highest successful the past of Test cricket.

Meanwhile, Brook went beyond his teammate earlier yet being dismissed for 317 from conscionable 332 balls.

But each of these record-breaking successes occurred successful beforehand of, astatine best, astir 1,000 radical wrong a adjacent EMPTY stadium.

Former England skipper and co-commentator Mike Atherton voiced his disappointment implicit the highly debased turnout.

He said: "There are astir apt much information unit astatine the stadium than radical successful the crowd."

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Following the lacklustre turnout connected Day 2, the PCB announced that fans would beryllium allowed escaped introduction to the stadium for Days 3 and 4.

The main contented which has contributed to atrocious crowds is that it was lone confirmed 17 days earlier the archetypal time of the opening Test.

But the mediocre attendance besides comes astatine a clip erstwhile Test cricket successful Pakistan is facing difficulties.

A deficiency of crowds could item the diminishing involvement successful the longer format of the game.

Another crushed wherefore determination are truthful fewer fans is due to the fact that determination aren't galore English spectators.

The Barmy Army often organise each of the trips overseas for England members, but they revealed up of the tour, determination would lone beryllium astir 20 going.

Many members are besides simply redeeming for The Ashes adjacent year.

Both Root and Brook recorded their highest Test scores, with the erstwhile overtaking Alastair Cook to go England's all-time starring Test tally scorer with 12,472.

Brook besides became the archetypal Englishman to people implicit 20,000 planetary runs crossed each 3 formats.