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PAK vs ENG Live Score Updates 1st Test Day 3: Zak Crawley, Joe Root Key As England Look To Avoid Follow-On
PAK vs ENG Live Score 1st Test Day 3: England will resume at 96/1 on Day 3 of the 1st Test, trailing Pakistan by 460 runs in Multan.
- NDTV Sports Desk
- Updated: October 09, 2024 09:18 AM IST
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Pakistan vs England Live Score 1st Test Day 3: England will resume at 96/1 on Day 3 of the 1st Test, trailing Pakistan by 460 runs in Multan. Zak Crawley's run-a-ball unbeaten 64 gave England a strong start after Pakistan posted a mammoth 556 in the first innings. Crawley was batting alongside former captain Joe Root, who not on 32, after skipper Ollie Pope's early dismissal. Pope had to bat up the order after opener Ben Duckett picked up an injury while taking a catch on Day 2. England need another 261 to avoid a follow-on -- a task eminently achievable on a pitch offering no help to bowlers. (Live Scorecard)
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PAK vs ENG 1st Test Live Score Updates
This one comes in with the arm, Duckett prods forward to defend, gets a healthy inside edge towards square leg for a single.
Looped up, around off, Duckett pushes it back to Salman.
Identical line and length, Joe Root works it past mid on for a single.
Pitched fuller, on leg, Joe Root lunges out and taps it to mid off.
Slow on middle and leg, full in length, Ben Duckett leans on and nudges it away with soft hands to square leg for an easy single.
Good length, outside off, Joe Root knocks it off the front foot to cover.
Beaten! This one holds its shape a bit, on a good length, just around off, Joe Root anticipates it to tail in a bit and pushes at it from inside the line of the ball. Gets beaten on the outside edge.
Hits the deck hard and outside off, slashed away neatly through cover-point for a single by Duckett.
This one stayed a little low on the bounce, good length angling into the batter, on middle, Joe Root controls the pull shot along the ground for a single at deep square leg.
A shade outside off, and nipping back in a shade, Root presses forward and drives it solidly to mid off.
Pitched on a good length, on the fourth stump line, Joe Root weighs on the front foot and plays it through the line towards cover.
Full in length, looped up on the stumps, driven straight to cover by Duckett.
FOUR! Nicely played! Dragged short of a good length, turning a shade away from middle, Ben Duckett uses the depth of the crease, moves across to create room, and slashes it through covers for a boundary. He moves to 46!
Flatter delivery at the stumps, Duckett rocks back and nurdles it to mid-wicket.
Flights it up at the stumps, Duckett prods forward and defends.
Pitched up, around middle and leg, Root tucks it to deep square leg for a single.
Around the wicket, tossed up, on leg, pushed to the leg side by Root.
Drinks! Phew, a very eventful first hour in this 'Moving Day' so far. England have batted extremely well and have negotiated this crucial hour with a positive intent. Although they have lost Zak Crawley on 78, who deserved a ton with the way he was timing the ball. But the scoring rate hasn't blipped one bit since the arrival of Ben Duckett. He has partnered with Joe Root and has scored more than run-a-ball while Root himself has notched up his 50, with a touch of class. On an extremely batting friendly track, Pakistani bowlers couldn't do much and with no movement and turn whatsoever for the bowlers, as yet, they have been dealt with caution and aggression. However, a wicket or two is what Pakistan needs to slow things up a bit before the Lunch break.
Inside edge! But that will be FIFTY for Joe Root, his 65th in Test cricket and that takes him so, so close to Sir Alastair Cook's record for the most Test runs by an England batter. Back of a length and on a right line around off, Root with a tentative push off the back foot and the ball goes off the inside edge towards backward square leg for a single.
Nagging length around off stump, Joe Root looks to drop and run on the off side but there's no run there.