Harry Brook scored his third century in as many matches whereas Ben Foakes hit a half-century as England eked out a lead of 29 over Pakistan on the finish of day two of the ultimate Test of the collection at Karachi’s National Stadium on Sunday.
Brook made 111 to proceed his wonderful begin to Test cricket, with the 23-year-old proving to be the glue in England’s innings, placing on partnerships with Ollie Pope and captain Ben Stokes earlier than a stand of 117 with Foakes.
Spinners Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed performed an enormous function in stemming England’s move on both aspect of the sixth-wicket stand, choosing up 4 wickets apiece because the guests had been finally dismissed for 354, in response to Pakistan’s first innings complete of 304.
England misplaced two wickets in fast succession shortly after resuming on 7-1, with Nauman first trapping Ben Duckett lbw after which getting Joe Root to depart for a duck after being caught within the slips on the following supply.
Nauman was denied a hat-trick by Brook, who stored England’s chase going, regardless of Pope being bowled by Abrar and Stokes dropping his wicket in a run out following a mix-up between the batters.
Brook and Foakes then revived England’s innings, constructing a defiant partnership which ended when Mohammad Wasim was capable of finding a chink in Brook’s armour to dismiss him lbw.
“It’s been a good day for us today. We tried to put it back on them and get a bit of a lead,” Brook informed Sky Sports.
Foakes valiantly fought on, scoring 64, however skied a supply from Nauman to mid-on, the place it was caught by Abdullah Shafique.
The final little bit of English resistance got here courtesy of Jack Leach and Ollie Robinson, who mixed for 30 runs earlier than Robinson was bowled by Abrar to finish England’s innings.
England was unable to take any wickets within the few overs that Pakistan batted on day two, with Shafique ending on 14 whereas Shan Masood was on 3.
“It would have been nice to have got a couple of wickets tonight but I’m sure we will go hard at them tomorrow,” Brook added.
“There’s quite a bit of rough at both ends of the pitch and it is starting to break up, it is so dry and cracked. So hopefully that keeps on happening and we can get a bit of spin and it keeps low.”
England gained the opening Test by 74 runs after which sealed a 26-run victory within the second to safe its first collection victory in Pakistan since 2000-01