Pakistan vs England: Jack Leach sets seal on remarkable First Test win as records tumble

England completed a breathtaking triumph successful the archetypal Test against Pakistan, Jack Leach putting the finishing touches to a record-breaking week connected the 5th greeting successful Multan.

The left-arm spinner snapped up the past 3 wickets connected the last day, with past antheral Abrar Ahmed incapable to bat owed to illness, to unafraid 1 of the astir singular results of the 'Bazball' era.

The last winning borderline was an innings and 47 runs, an unthinkable proposition erstwhile Pakistan ended with 556 runs connected time two. No squad successful past has ever scored arsenic galore and gone connected to suffer without making their opponents bat twice.

Pakistan, shellshocked astatine conceding a 267-run deficit, mislaid a clump of wickets connected the 4th evening and were yet rounded up by Leach for 220.

In the agelong span of Test cricket, this was different genuinely outlandish outlier to fertile alongside England's barely-believable turnaround against India successful Hyderabad astatine the commencement of the year.

The crippled began with Pakistan piling up the runs implicit 149 gruelling overs aft winning the flip but they recovered themselves overwhelmed by the standard of English ambition and the mightiness of their batting line-up.

England responded with a mammoth 823 for 7 earlier declaring, Harry Brook's triple period the centre-piece of the 4th largest innings successful Test history, and the bowlers did the rest.

Pakistan resumed with minimal anticipation connected the last time and saw Leach instrumentality travel to the fore to people his archetypal quality since January successful style.

The left-armer, who has seen his presumption arsenic first-choice spinner usurped by his Somerset team-mate Shoaib Bashir, played the relation of finisher arsenic helium took retired Salman Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah to decorativeness with 4 for 30 and lucifer figures of 7 for 190.

There was aboriginal encouragement for England erstwhile Salman flapped astatine a abbreviated shot from Chris Woakes, lone for his mis-hit to evade the in-field catchers connected the limb side.

He had 47 astatine the clip and rapidly precocious to his half-century by flicking Gus Atkinson disconnected his hips for four. With the transportation showing nary evident motion of last-day deterioration it did not instrumentality England agelong to unlock their bouncer strategy.

That meant a burst from their quickest bowler, Brydon Carse, and helium soon hurried up Aamer Jamal with a abbreviated shot that reared and smashed him connected the broadside of the helmet.

With Abrar absent, Pakistan could hardly spend different nonaccomplishment and, aft a lengthy concussion check, helium was fixed the greenish airy to spell on.

Carse continued bending his backmost to excavation the shot in, rapping Jamal connected the mitt from circular the wicket but seeing it loop implicit wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.

Woakes lacked the velocity to origin the aforesaid problems and saw 2 of his bumpers dispatched to the bound by Jamal.

The drinks interruption brought different alteration of plan, with Leach entering the fray. This clip it took conscionable 4 balls to bash the trick, the left-armer shading 1 conscionable past Salman's wrong borderline and winning the lbw verdict.

The all-rounder called for a reappraisal but England knew they had their man. Carse switched ends and should person had Jamal for a hard-fought 50, Pope making bully crushed nether a precocious drawback lone to fumble it.

While Pope volition instrumentality large restitution from starring the broadside successful a record-breaking week his ain contribution, helium besides bagged a two-ball duck and struggled to connection an interaction successful the field.

The Pakistan process showed small appetite to hold things, swinging with wantonness arsenic Leach picked them off. Afridi blasted a thrust backmost down the crushed but saw the bowler leap successful beforehand of the umpire to stitchery a astute diving catch, portion Naseem managed 1 six earlier charging down the wicket and being stumped by Smith.

It had taken conscionable 96 minutes to adjacent things down and handed England a 1-0 triumph successful the three-match series.