Ben Stokes had no complaints and it made for a more entertaining match - but Test cricket is meant to be a contest
on and take it everywhere he goes. Pakistan captain Shan Masood must have felt the same after his side broke an 11-match winless streak at home to hand out aBoth matches, of course, were played at the same ground and on the same pitch.
That’s not to say Pakistan didn’t play well. They did, especially Noman Ali and Sajid Khan, who became only the second pair of spinners in history to take all 20 wickets in a single Test. However, as interesting as it made the contest, isn’t Test cricket meant to be a fair battle between bat and ball? In the first Test, conditions were way too skewed in favour of the batters. It made for dull cricket, even if England managed to pull off a fine win.
His was the seventh wicket to fall, still with 172 runs needed to win. It was the moment the game was well and truly up for an England team who never looked leaving like Noman’s land alive.Test, bowled with accuracy and precision to torment the tourists on the final morning, taking a career-best haul of eight for 46 and 11 wickets in total across the match.Yet the fact that this journeyman had so much joy tells you all you need to know about a surface that really should be sanctioned by the ICC.
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