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00:28Hello and welcome to the Multan Cricket Stadium as we bring you highlights of the day 4 of the first test, Pakistan vs England.
00:38Pakistan in their first innings managing 556, England in reply 492 for 3 as they will start day 4 trailing by 64 runs.
00:48Let's join the action as Joe Root and Harry Brook walk out into the middle.
00:53Shahin Afridi from around the stumps and he gets going straight away.
01:04Nice shot, beautifully played, the balance was great and this will run away from Shahin Masood.
01:16How effortlessly maneuver the length on that occasion Joe Root.
01:25Just use the pace, roll of the wrist at the last moment to get that placement.
01:31And how often does that happen, drop catch, next ball, boundary, disheartening to say the least.
01:48What a comeback from Root, dropped and next ball put away beautifully through the offside
01:54as if nothing had happened and that's the other great thing about Joe Root.
02:01How good is that, we've seen plenty of great cover drives, add one to your list, Brook.
02:14150, his third score of 150 or more in tests.
02:19Classic, like you can't ball in there, he's so efficient playing that cover drive.
02:24You can see how easy batting is, especially for two very, very fine players.
02:34This came down the pitch, a shimmy down the pitch, roll of the wrist and off she went. Easy as you like.
02:44The way he goes, it's a gentle turn into the leg side but it's batting of the highest class again.
02:57His remarkable record continues, records of tumble for Joe Root in the last
03:02few months, his sixth double century in test match cricket.
03:06Absolutely phenomenal, he raises the bat once again and he celebrates another milestone,
03:16his second double turn against Pakistan, one back in Manchester 2016.
03:24Maybe the charge is on, at some point as Ben Ducat said to us last night on interview,
03:30England had the right to bat at whatever tempo they wanted to this morning and then at some
03:34point would push the accelerator. Harry Brook might have pushed the accelerator so hard he's
03:39done himself a mischief. Brutal shot. Pakistan under a spot of pressure, Arooj.
03:52Well that's more runs and it's going to be four of them, all eyes on Ampad Dharmasena.
03:57It is runs to Harry Brook, so back-to-back boundaries.
03:59And that was always going to be the trouble, he gets enough bat on that and guides it fine.
04:06With a man on 150 plus, one more than 100 as well, two men come out.
04:13We saw the ball do just a little bit in the morning.
04:20When the gaps are there and when the timing's there, the boundaries come
04:23as well. In between of course it's the diet of ones and twos.
04:27With utmost ease this time, easing it through the offside, there's a lot of improvisation,
04:32but safe improvisation. Trying to follow the batter on that occasion, Salman Ali Agha,
04:38just didn't have enough pace.
04:44Well he adapted the shot, still made pretty good contact with it.
04:50And that was a heavyweight home season as well, England and Australia.
04:57That's gone, and it's a boundary. I think it will be given as four.
05:02Shainshah Fridi trying his hand at it with a diving effort, not to be.
05:06It also depends what time of the year you're having a test series. I mean this is
05:11off-period, off-peak period. Pakistan's, as we all know, weather-wise,
05:17I think it's February-March where you can produce good pitches to go with the weather.
05:27Yeah, he's played that shot rarely because they've had a very fine third man, but that
05:34position is now vacant. The route goes to a shot that he loves playing.
05:43And he made sure that he plays that one very late.
05:49And plenty of runs accrued in that particular direction in this innings.
05:53Still no third man.
05:59And just eases it on the offside. A first test double hundred for Harry Brook. He is some talent.
06:08Loves batting against Pakistan. Loves batting in Pakistan. Brilliant.
06:17Yes, he has developed affinity against, with Pakistan.
06:20Affinity against, with Pakistan. Every time he comes out to bat in a test match against Pakistan,
06:29you're assured he'll come out with something special. The moment he arrived at the crease
06:35was able to establish authority.
06:40And the reverse scoop comes. Will it take him to 250? You bet it does.
06:45His second 250-plus score against Pakistan. Another man that likes it against this opposition.
06:56250 for Root, 200 for Brook. The runs continue to flow.
07:02He'll have fond memories of Multan.
07:04He'll have fond memories of Multan.
07:12Cut hard and passed extra cover. There's a lot of fielders on the boundary, but no one there.
07:21And no one moved. Once it got through the inner field,
07:26all the time in the world, rocks back, plays it over.
07:34Uppercut, easy as you like. No third man. 400 partnership between Brook and Root.
07:49And another one that's just turned a little bit, right on the stroke of lunch.
07:56And another wicketless session for Shaan Masood and his team. Bat continues to dominate ball.
08:03And when you have two very fine, if not great batters at the crease.
08:09England walk off with Joe Root and Harry Brook both having their highest test score
08:13in international test cricket. England 658 for three. Once again, a session Pakistan will want
08:20Once again, a session Pakistan will want to forget. One wicket apiece remains to Shaheen,
08:25Naseem and Amir Jamal. Let's join the action post-launch.
08:34This time sounded better. And this time it'll also be a better result. It'll also bring up
08:40England's highest ever partnership in test cricket. That's another one into the
08:47illustrious record that England have mounted. It's 660 for three.
08:52He's been welcomed with a glorious stroke. That is absolutely special.
09:00Yeah, and the fielding now just starting to look tired and sloppy. Just as England start
09:06to get a little bit tired. It's just a matter of time before they start to get a little bit tired.
09:12And it's just a matter of time before they start to get a little bit tired.
09:17Just starting to look tired and sloppy. Just as England start to put their foot down. That was a
09:23wonderful shot from Harry Brook. Watch how he holds his pose and just goes into out.
09:28Doesn't lift his head. That's as good as it gets.
09:41Yeah, not a pleasant picture for Pakistan.
09:47Cut away. And cut away for four. Plays it late. Brook only dealing in boundaries.
09:57And catching his partner up. That's the class
10:00of Harry Brook. He's got route at the other end on 250 plus. This takes him into the 240s.
10:11More pain for Pakistan.
10:17Well, case in point then, Nass. Maybe we should do that. Otherwise, this onslaught will just continue.
10:30Well, that is absolutely marvellous. It also brings up Harry Brook's 250.
10:38He will also be applauded and admired for test cricket viewers, cricket viewers from across the
10:43globe. The English crowd also stand up and applaud. It's been another phenomenal effort
10:49by a very, very special talent in Harry Brook.
10:56How about that? This has just gone from excellent to par excellent and beyond.
11:04Joe Root at 255, striking at a 90 plus. He gives himself room. He picks up another four.
11:14Well, he's had the bulk of the strike since lunch. It's all been Harry Brook. That's why he's catching up.
11:24Oh, big shout. Fairly close and given.
11:28That's as good as it gets. And it does bring Joe Root's magnificent 262
11:37to an end. We've witnessed absolute speciality here.
11:42As he walks off the field, a career best beaten
11:48against Pakistan. He goes to his top score and he walks off the field finally to put his feet up.
12:00Brilliant, brilliant from Joe Root.
12:03Down the pitch, lifts it beautifully for six.
12:09Such a big shot. Only one six before this one in a score of 720. That's got to be some kind
12:16of a record as well, since it's been a milestone festest match.
12:22Well, he's really on the charge now, Harry Brook. He has accelerated in dramatic fashion after lunch.
12:33Jamie Smith, always the man for a crisis. In at 730 or so for four, he's got a chance.
12:43Jamie Smith, always the man for a crisis. In at 730 or so for four,
12:51he's going to start enjoying himself now. What a gorgeous strike down the ground.
12:58Here's what you want to admire this great six. The fact remains that Pakistan have been
13:04reactive rather than pre-emptive as a bowling unit.
13:07Making sure that they get the job done. That's gone. Oh, no, it's not. It's Saud Shaquille.
13:18Well, you can put the physicality and the tiredness mentally because of the conditions
13:24down to this drop. You can't do that to the first one off Barber. It was early on in the day.
13:28As Brook comes down the pitch, it's an extravagant and extraordinary shot
13:33over long off. Say what you like about the pitch and the bowling and the drop catches,
13:38but this is an exhibition of quite extraordinary batting from Yorkshire's Harry Brook.
13:45Yeah, it's not nice. Nassim Shah has been premier bowler for Pakistan over the years and
13:52it's embarrassing.
13:56Smith swings away leg side. It's another chance for a catch and almost brilliantly taken.
14:05Have a look at his feet. So now he knows he's near the fence, throws it up. Now watch when he
14:09tries to turn. Just that slip. It's that initial slip that means he can't get back to take
14:15the ball. He's got to get back to the ball. He's got to get back to the ball.
14:19He can't get back to take the second part of the catch. It was brilliant work.
14:24It was just that little slip and this outfield now is quite dry and sandy.
14:38Smith has got a bit of a license here and he's a dangerous man with a license.
14:43Brook clubs it down the ground and in the heat and dust of Multan, he becomes only the sixth
14:50England batsman to make 300 in Test cricket, joining Hutton, Sandham, Edrich, Hammond and Gooch.
15:13Should be the end and is the end of Jamie Smith, who's come out swinging selflessly.
15:20England are well in front of this game now. He had a license to attack. He wasn't going to hang
15:26around. He was given a life or two in the end. Hit one catch or offered one catch too many.
15:34Nassim Shah richly deserving this, even though it was a hike,
15:37a slog, but he richly deserves wickets.
15:49Deep mid-wicket, can't stop it off. They've just looked a bit ragged in the last hour or so.
15:55In the air, top edge and he goes Harry Brook, but he has thrilled us with one of the great
16:03innings seen on this ground. Skill, technique, fitness, concentration.
16:13Utterly brilliant. Triple hundred from Brook has ended 317.
16:18In the air and taken. Barbarazam, who dropped one earlier in the day, has just timed his jump
16:26and caught it one-handed. Well, there are ironies everywhere in this game, aren't there? Barbarazam,
16:31as you said earlier in the day, dropped an absolute sitter. This he made look very casually
16:37easy, just to sort of, you know, get the ball out of the way. He's got it, he's got it, he's got it.
16:44This he made look very casually easy, just a bit of a gentle stretch to his right.
16:51Sensed the frustration, the way, the way he then disposed of the ball.
16:55Away from Oli Pope, standing captain, and he's declared on England. And I think that's the right
17:04thing to do. Time is of an essence here in Multan. On a flat pitch, England need as much time as
17:11possible to take 10 more wickets. That was hard work, but it was worth it.
17:25For Pakistan and their captain. England, 823 for 7. Exactly 150 overs in the field.
17:37Oli Pope, the England skipper, decided to call his team back in at 823 for 7,
17:42as he declared with 267 runs ahead. Let's join the action with our commentators.
17:48What a start! First delivery, and he pays all around it. Abdullah Shafiq, first ball, gone.
18:01That is stunning. That is absolutely stunning from Vox, and he is stunned, Abdullah Shafiq.
18:06Pakistan have absolutely no idea what hit them.
18:09Pakistan have absolutely no idea what hit them. Now, Scobo reads 0 for 1. This is a beauty.
18:18He's done him in between. Pegs off stump, out of the ground, that goes tumbling.
18:26That is a fantastic start from Chris Hawkes in England.
18:32Pakistan, 0 for 1. Abdullah Shafiq walks back, bamboozled.
18:39He's now got to switch on and show some leadership.
18:57Short ball cut away hard, and he's got underneath that. At no stage was he going to keep that down.
19:05Yeah, it's pretty well played. Simon definitely trying to cut that up and over.
19:19Cut! Oh, goes down the ground. Simon Hube's been aggressive so far, and he's made sure that
19:27he did well over mid-on. Aishwarya Basheer to settle into a rhythm.
19:35Slightly fuller pitched, and Simon Hube decides to give it the straight back pass.
19:44Leads it around. Shahan Masood lucky to go to T, unbeaten. England have got 1, Pakistan have got 23.
19:53They still trail by 244. At the close of the second session as the players take T,
20:01Pakistan trail by 244 runs, but in that they are 23 for 1. Abdullah Shafiq clean bowled for naught.
20:09It's time to resume action here at the Multan International Cricket Stadium.
20:24It's a full-blooded shot for four. Simon Hube is a good timer of the ball,
20:30he's got plenty of talent, but it's just that he needs to get some numbers done.
20:38Gone! Soft dismissal. Shahan Masood there, just poking his bat at that line. A very jittery innings.
20:47A lot of uncertainty surrounding his batting in the second innings there.
20:50It was such a soft dismissal in the end. Shahan Masood just stood in disbelief because he's hung
20:57his bat out there and it is lobbed ever so slightly and simply to Zach Crawley.
21:06Shahan Masood goes for 11, Pakistan now 29 for 2. Nice shot for four.
21:14He's a powerful player, square through the offside. Anything short, he'll go after it.
21:23I think there's a lot of inside edge, a lot of edge. I think this probably will be given as runs.
21:28I heard a woody sound, a bat sound.
21:36That's a nice one. That really is a special shot from Babar Azam. Hardly seemed to have hit it.
21:45Timing was good, placement was good.
21:48Yeah, once you start to find your timing
21:53and in your head the message comes through that actually this is starting to feel a bit better.
22:01Edge and gone! Caught behind Babar Azam once again.
22:05Leaves early, his exit is going to absolutely hamper this knock. This innings from Pakistan.
22:12Caught on the crease. England are sniffing a win here. 41 for 3. Ace batter is out.
22:21No matter what form he's in, whether he's in form or not, Babar Azam is always a very,
22:26very big wicket. That is a fantastic piece of bowling from Gus Atkinson. Excellent line,
22:33excellent length and just gets Babar Azam to hang his bat out. A faint tickle to Jamie Smith.
22:39Takes a very, very comfortable catch, an important catch as well. Gus Atkinson loves it.
22:47He's got two now in the second innings. Pakistan 41 for 3.
22:51Slip and a gully. Two men catching, leg side and a leg slip.
22:58In the air, mid-off, duck it. Can he get there? He can, brilliant. Brilliant catch, a very ordinary
23:06shot. Saim Ayoub has hit it straight up in the air. This is a collapse from Pakistan, 41 for 4.
23:17The demons have returned. Third innings, pressure on. Yeah, Jason Gillespie,
23:24well that notebook is filling up quickly. This is a very ordinary shot, short of a length.
23:32He's trying to, I don't know, trying to go over cover,
23:36ends up just hitting it up in the air. That's a very good catch, running back from duck it.
23:44England well on their way. Pakistan head down. Saim Ayoub out for 25, 41 for 4.
23:54Paul, there is no one out there apart from Fineleg who has to get around and gather it.
24:01May think of putting another man out because Kass's length is short generally
24:06and Rizwan likes to pull leg side.
24:13Well, he deserved that, Sao Chiquinha. He's played three or four beautiful drives straight
24:17to the fielder. Bashir's dived and stopped it. This time he finds the gap.
24:22Oh, and another. Five now. Brydon Kass hitting the pitch hard,
24:27bringing back into Mohamed Rizwan and demolishing the stumps.
24:34Technical deficiencies being exploited by the English bowlers. Fifth one bites the dust and
24:41it's Mohamed Rizwan cleaned up by the debutant Kass. That's his second in the innings.
24:49That's his second in the innings. Pakistan in dire strait.
24:58Lovely shot. Composed, good stride into the ball and the bend of the knee.
25:11Firmly cut. There is a man back but he's square on the offside.
25:20Gives him the charge straight away. This is a very fine positive batting from Sao Chiquinha.
25:25He picks up four. Yeah, he's a very good player of spin bowling and he's not going to
25:30let this opportunity go.
25:37So does the finger. Our battle has gone in Leach's favour and it's a very,
25:43very big wicket. Sao Chiquinha goes for 29, Pakistan six down.
25:48Excellent from England. Excellent from Leach and a really good take from Jamie Smith.
25:54Really good take. First ball flighted, then slightly quicker.
26:02Slightly quicker, expecting it to turn into him. It didn't.
26:06That is a good catch because it's a reasonably big deflection.
26:10Well done, Jamie Smith. Well done, Jack Leach. Well done, England.
26:17Sao Chiquinha goes for 29, Pakistan 82 for six.
26:28It's nicely swept away and it is Groundhog Day. It's always reacting to a crisis.
26:34That will be a four, I think. Yes, it is a four. Nicely struck down the ground.
26:43Yeah, just away from a leg slip to his left and four.
26:48Just straying down in line. Diderot field is set for that.
26:53Deftly done. Just allowing the ball to glide off the face of the bat there, Salman Aliaga.
27:07That was a little slower. And Ama Jamal down on one knee and he just had to wait a fraction of a
27:14That was a little slower. And Ama Jamal down on one knee and he just had to wait a fraction
27:22because Bashir held it back in the air. Salman will take the opportunity with the field in
27:33to smear Bashir away over the leg side for four.
27:36In a dramatic turn of events, Pakistan went from 23 for one to 152 for six in the last session here
27:49on day four. Salman Aliaga and Ama Jamal still unbeaten in the middle. The England seamers
27:55continue to break through into Pakistan's batting order. One apiece for Leach and Wokes and two to
28:02Atkinson and Bryden Cass. The match summary at the end of day four in the first test. Pakistan
28:08winning the toss putting up 556 in the first innings. England in reply a mammoth 823 for seven
28:16declared with Harry Brooke and Joe Roode both personal best in Test cricket 317 and 262
28:23respectively. Pakistan come out in their second inning staring down a battle at 152 for six.
28:29They trail by 115 runs. Hope you've enjoyed the highlights here on day four. We'll see you for day five.