{"id":8924,"date":"2024-10-18T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:34:45","slug":"nauman-sajid-spin-pakistan-to-victory-over-england-in-multan-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/nauman-sajid-spin-pakistan-to-victory-over-england-in-multan-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Nauman, Sajid spin Pakistan to victory over England in Multan Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noman Ali claimed eight wickets as Pakistan\u2019s frontline spinners bowled them to a 152-run victory over England in the second Test in Multan on Friday to level the three-match series at 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chasing 297 for victory on a turning track at the Multan Cricket Stadium, England were all out for 144 in the fourth day\u2019s morning session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spinners Noman and Sajid Khan&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/records\/two-bowlers-taking-all-20-wickets-in-a-match-284200\">took all 20 wickets<\/a>&nbsp;in the match, only the seventh time and first in 52 years that such a feat has been achieved in Test cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skipper Ben Stokes was the top scorer for England with 37 but their frontline batters struggled against the turning ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noman was the pick of the Pakistan bowlers claiming 8-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan were already in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1865803\/pakistan-sense-series-levelling-win-over-england-after-sajid-heroics\">ascendancy<\/a>&nbsp;when England resumed on 36-2 needing an extraordinary batting effort to get anywhere near the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice-captain Ollie Pope (22) fell in the second over of the day, giving off-spinner Sajid Khan a return catch before left-arm spinner Noman ran amok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noman dealt the tourists a body blow when he trapped Joe Root lbw for 18, a decision the batter reviewed but could not get overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Brook (16) fell to Noman in a similar fashion and England slumped to 88-6 when Jamie Smith was sent packing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stokes has played some match-defining knocks in his illustrious career and England badly needed a similar innings from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The captain, scoring at a run-a-ball rate, came dancing down the track against Noman and swung his bat only for it to fly out of his hands to midwicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan had all the time in the world to collect the ball and whip off the bail with Stokes well out of the crease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third and final Test begins in Rawalpindi on Thursday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noman Ali claimed eight wickets as Pakistan\u2019s frontline spinners bowled them to a 152-run victory over England in the second Test in Multan on Friday to level the three-match series at 1-1. Chasing 297 for victory on a turning track at the Multan Cricket Stadium, England were all out for 144 in the fourth day\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-paksitan","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}