Pak vs Eng: England beat Pakistan by eight wickets in third Test

• England beat Pakistan by eight wickets to win the third Test in Karachi.
• It is the first time that Pakistan has ever been swept at home in Tests.
• Pakistan was led by Babar Azam, who scored 54, and Saud Shakeel, who scored 53.

KARACHI: England won the third Test on Tuesday by eight wickets, making it the first time that Pakistan has ever been swept at home.

With a small goal of 167 runs to reach, the visitors won with only two wickets lost.

Even though his opening partner Zak Crawley was out after a fast start of 87 runs, Ben Duckett kept attacking the Pakistan bowlers with 82 runs in 78 balls.

England win the third Test by eight wickets.#PAKvENG | #UKSePK pic.twitter.com/EMwiQeqb0Z

— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 20, 2022

Crawley scored 41 runs with seven fours, and captain Ben Stokes was still unbeaten with 35 runs.

In Pakistan’s second innings, Abrar Ahmed took two wickets.

Pakistan’s second-innings score of 216 gave England a target of 167 runs to beat in order to win the third and last Test.

Pakistan lost their last seven wickets for 52 runs on a pitch at the National Stadium that helped spinners. Rehan Ahmed, a teenager who spins with his legs, had 5-48 runs, and Jack Leach had 3-72 runs.

At 18 years and 126 days old, Rehan was the youngest man to ever take five wickets in his first Test match. When he got his fifth wicket on day three of the Karachi Test, the leg-spinner beat the record that Pat Cummins had set.

Will Jacks had already done this earlier in the series, making Rehan the 53rd England bowler to get five wickets in their first Test.

Rehan Ahmed writes his name on the National Bank Cricket Arena Honours Board after registering a five-wicket haul on Test debut ✍️#PAKvENG | #UKSePK pic.twitter.com/hkJ11q4Ayl

— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 19, 2022

Pakistan was led by Babar Azam, who scored 54, and Saud Shakeel, who scored 53.

During the second innings of the match, Babar Azam became the first Pakistani to score 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year in six years. He was also the fourth player to reach this milestone in 2022.

He is the sixth Pakistani batter to reach 1,000 runs in a year. He did so when he got to 45 runs in an inning that ended with 54 runs.

Azam and Shakeel added 110 runs to the score for the fourth wicket, which put Pakistan in a good position. However, when Azam was out, with the score at 164, a collapse began, and Pakistan was bowled out for 216.

In their second innings, Pakistan lost their last seven wickets and added only 52 runs.

England won the first Test on a dead surface by 74 runs after winning the toss and batting deep.

Rawalpindi yielded 1,768 runs in four innings, the third most in Test history, with seven centuries and five fifties.

Ben Stokes’ team won by 26 runs, as Pakistan failed to reach 355 runs.

England was in Pakistan for the first time since 2005. In the years between, they didn’t go because they were worried about safety.

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