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| Pak versus Eng: Azhar Ali fit to bat in Rawalpindi Test, says PCB |
RAWALPINDI: right-gave hitter Azhar Ali has recuperated from the damage he experienced on the fourth day of the preliminary take look between Pakistan and Britain and is a match to play, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Monday.
Azhar Ali became hit at the tip of his proper pointer within the fifth over of the second innings on Sunday and left the sector for extra scientific treatment.
"The proper-given player is fit to bat," the PCB said in an update.
Pakistan wishes another 263 to overcome Britain within the test
The visitors pursued a placing desire Sunday once they stated and set an objective of 343 of every 4 meetings for Pakistan to win the number one take a look at.
In any case, Pakistan lost Abdullah Shafique (six) and captain Babar Azam (4) in their 2nd innings earlier than Imam-ul-Haq (43) and Saud Shakeel (24) finished day four at the wrinkle on eighty-2.
Earlier, Harry Creek struck a searing 87 as Britain batted forcefully of their subsequent innings earlier than saying at 264-7.
Debutant spinner Will Jacks took a professional best 6-161 as Britain at closing excused Pakistan for 579 in light of their mammoth first innings rating of 657.
Seeking out ten Pakistan wickets in a most extreme a hundred thirty overs, Britain confirmed their plan early and Ollie Robinson earlier than lengthy bobbed out opener Shafique — who scored hundred years in the important innings.
In a similar, he hit Azhar Ali with a pointy, rising conveyance, compelling him to surrender with a harmed finger.
Then, at that factor, Stirs up got the valued wicket of Pakistan captain Azam through constraining an edge of a rising conveyance that landed securely in father or mother Ollie Pope's arms — beautiful the occasion horde of 14,2 hundred.
However, Haq — who likewise scored 100 years in the foremost innings — steadied the boat with Shakeel with a fifty-five-run 1/3-wicket stand.
Britain's partner mentor Paul Collingwood stated that healthy changed into "even".
"we're positive we can make it occur. The young guys have shown that they will concoct numerous plans and numerous methods of attempting to arrive," he said.
"Assuming Pakistan knock off the runs, they have the proper to win."
Pakistan's Agha Salman likewise set forward an effective outlook.
"Our point is to dominate the game, irrespective of how the pitch plays," he stated.
The following meeting had a place with Britain, who brought 218 runs before announcing while the movement changed into dumbfounded in Naseem Shah's closing before tea.
The stream beat 11 limits and three sixes in an ambitious thump, coming after his 153 in Britain's most memorable innings.
Root likewise had an effect in a 96-run organization with the flow, scoring his 55th test in 50 years.
Leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood excused Root and Stirs up (nothing) inside the equal over to get executed with figures of two-eighty-four, while Naseem took 2-sixty-six and Mohammad Ali 2-sixty-four.
Within the first part of the day meeting, debutant Jacks took every one of the 3 wickets to fall after Pakistan continued at 499-7 — yet now not earlier than the host's tail-enders scored unreservedly on a far-defamed stage Rawalpindi arena pitch.
Agha Salman (fifty-three) and Mahmood (17) disenchanted Britain for 50 mins at some stage in their difficult eighth-wicket stand of 57.