Pak vs England 2022 Live Score, 1st Test, Day 2: Four England batsmen scored centuries as the visitors posted a challenging 506/4 in just 75 overs on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan, breaking several records in the process.
Openers Zak Crawley (122) and Ben Duckett (107) put on a solid opening stand of 233 to lay a strong foundation. Thereafter, Ollie Pope (108) and Harry Brook (101*) shared an opening partnership of 176 to put England in a strong position.
The visitors scored 174 in the morning session, scored 158 despite losing three wickets in quick succession after lunch, and again scored 174 in the final session, where only 21 overs were possible as fading light quickly reduced the wickets. Stumps forced.
All this action was only possible after early-morning confirmation from the English camp that the tourists – cut short by a viral infection at the start of the First Test – had indeed recovered sufficiently for an XI. start on time.
On their first day of returning to Pakistan to play Test cricket after 17 years, England broke several records including the most runs scored on the first day of a Test match.
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A look at some of the records that went for the toss on the first day in Rawalpindi
Most runs on the first day of test
England’s 506, which came in just 75 overs at an impressive run rate of 6.75, is the all-time record for the most runs scored on the first day of a Test match. He beat Australia’s total of 494 against South Africa at Sydney in the first Test of the series in 1910.
Then, Australia ended on 494/6. Australia scored 482/5 in 86.5 overs against South Africa at Adelaide on the first day of the 2012 Test, with a scoring rate of 5.57.
four centuries on the first day
Apart from openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett, Harry Brook and Ollie Pope also completed centuries, all but one of them reaching the three-figure mark at a strike rate of over 100. This is the first time that four centuries have been scored. First day of test match.
record-breaking opening stand
Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett broke the opening stand of 233 in 35.4 overs at a scoring rate of 6.53, making it the highest run rate in an opening partnership of 200 or more runs in Test cricket.
Overall, there have been only three double-century opening partnerships at a rate of more than six runs per over: Joe Burns and David Warner (6.29 runs per over against New Zealand in 2015) and Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers (6.22 runs per over) v Zimbabwe in 2005).
Six fours in one over
England’s Harry Brook hit debutant Saud Shakeel for six fours in an over, only the fifth instance of a batsman hitting six fours in an over in a Test match.
Sandeep Patil v Bob Willis in 1982, Chris Gayle v Matthew Hoggard in 2004, Ramnaresh Sarwan v Munaf Patel in 2006 and Sanath Jayasuriya v James Anderson in 2007 were the other instances.
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