354/10 (81.4)
CR : 4.33
304/10 (79.0)
CR : 3.85
England won by 8 wickets 🏆
Player of the Match
Harry Brook
111(150)
28.1
4
M Wasim to B Duckett
FOUR! That's it! Ben Duckett finishes things off in style. Fuller and wide outside off, Duckett cuts it away square of the wicket as the ball races away to the point fence for a boundary to win the game and the series. England sweeps the series 3-0 by winning the contest by 8 wickets.
Azhar Ali has been given a round of applause as he walks off the field for the final time in his career. Both the teams are shaking hands with him as a glorious career comes to an end. He should be mighty proud of his career.
ENG won by 8 wickets
11:08AM IST: Historic win for England here at the National Stadium in Karachi as they complete the whitewash defeating Pakistan by 8 wickets and winning the 3-Test series by 3-0! The change in the leadership with Ben Stokes as captain and Brendon McCullum as coach has been a great move for the England team as they played a completely different and an attacking brand of cricket since the first day of the first test in this series.
Pakistan started cautiously but were in trouble early on day 3 when Jack Leach run through their top order getting the top 3 out inside 6 deliveries but Babar Azam scored another half century and added 110 runs with the youngster Saud Shakeel (53) who has impressed on this tour with four half centuries, 3 of them coming in the second innings.
Another debutant Rehan Ahmed who didn't bowl at all on day 3 until the afternoon session provided the crucial breakthroughs getting 3 wickets in 5 overs including Babar, Shakeel and Rizwan and finished with becoming the youngest England bowler to get a 5-wicket haul also getting it on debut and helped bundle Pakistan off for 216 setting England 167 to win.
England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett got their team to another brilliant start in an attempt to chase off the total on the third day itself and added 87 runs in 11.3 overs before Crawley was sent back by Abrar Ahmed who finished with 2 more wickets as England get home easily by 8 wickets.
Harry Brook finishes as the highest run scorer in the series with 468 runs in 5 innings scoring 3 hundreds and a fifty. Babar Azam follows him at number 2 with 348 runs, a century and 3 fifties. Abrar Ahmed making his debut in this series topped the wicket taking charts with 17 wickets to his name with a best performance of 7/114. Jack Leach follows him with 15 wickets and best performance of 4/98.
Stay tuned as we come back with the post match presentation.
Chasing a target of 167, the visitors batted with intent to finish the game on day 3 itself but as the clock was ticking towards the sunset time, play had to be called off with 55 more runs to get. It took only 11.1 overs and 38 minutes for the pair of Ben Duckett and Ben Stokes to get to the total on day 4.
A quick recap of the Test match and the series, England were invited to take the field as Babar Azam won the toss on day 1 and scored 304 in 79 overs getting bundled on day 1 itself. Skipper Babar Azam (78) and Agha Salman (56) scored half centuries in the first innings with Jack Leach starring for England with a 4-wicket haul.
England played with an attacking intent yet again and finished at 354 with a run rate of 4.33 with Harry Brook scoring yet another century on the tour (his 3rd). Wicketkeeper Ben Foakes who missed out on the first 2 matches scored 64 and Ollie Pope also hit 51 when Pakistan's spin duo of Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed shared 8 wickets between them.
Pakistan started cautiously but were in trouble early on day 3 when Jack Leach run through their top order getting the top 3 out inside 6 deliveries but Babar Azam scored another half century and added 110 runs with the youngster Saud Shakeel (53) who has impressed on this tour with four half centuries, 3 of them coming in the second innings.
Another debutant Rehan Ahmed who didn't bowl at all on day 3 until the afternoon session provided the crucial breakthroughs getting 3 wickets in 5 overs including Babar, Shakeel and Rizwan and finished with becoming the youngest England bowler to get a 5-wicket haul also getting it on debut and helped bundle Pakistan off for 216 setting England 167 to win.
England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett got their team to another brilliant start in an attempt to chase off the total on the third day itself and added 87 runs in 11.3 overs before Crawley was sent back by Abrar Ahmed who finished with 2 more wickets as England get home easily by 8 wickets.
Harry Brook finishes as the highest run scorer in the series with 468 runs in 5 innings scoring 3 hundreds and a fifty. Babar Azam follows him at number 2 with 348 runs, a century and 3 fifties. Abrar Ahmed making his debut in this series topped the wicket taking charts with 17 wickets to his name with a best performance of 7/114. Jack Leach follows him with 15 wickets and best performance of 4/98.
Stay tuned as we come back with the post match presentation.
Harry Brook is the player of the match and player of the series as well!
Harry Brook: "Probably been my best tour so far. Winning 3-0 here, nobody has done it before so its been a phenomenal tour. I was pretty annoyed with myself in the second Test when I got out to Abrar. I was looking myself in the mirror and approached in a different way so to bounce back from that and to learn from my mistake. I don't really bat at 5, we swapped it around a little bit trying to win last night so the boys went early trying to slap and win it last night."
Babar Azam (Pakistan Captain): "Definitely. We are not good enough for a fightback. They played well and deserve the win. I think in the first innings we didn't put runs on the board and then lost wickets and were good in patches. Definitely. Our bowlers were injured and bowled well. They fought for us and were happy with their efforts. Definitely. We have to sit down and assess where we have gone wrong and come back stronger. The New Zealand series is not far off. Hope to come back stronger."
Ben Stokes (England Captain): "Perfect [to sum it up]. We got a process with which we want to play but I think one thing which has been a challenge in this series was obviously the different types of pitches that we played on in every Test match but we stuck to our game plan but I think we adapted really well. Every point in the series and in particular with the ball. We have spoken a lot about the way which we bat but the mindset that we have and the commitment from everyone throughout the series.
The belief that I have and ten other guys on the field with me in what we do and I think that resonates around everybody. The confidence that every individual has in themselves and the confidence everyone has in the people around them, I think its unbelievable. To be able to lead a group out who follow that belief and confidence gives me so much confidence in myself. That's a very special thing to be able to say towards your players.
If have to pinpoint than everyone will be in for a while because every person has proved a point in some kind of a match winning performance but Harry Brook has been unbelievable for us this series. Coming here and scoring so many runs the way he did was a serious treat to watch. The calmness he has got at such a young age and the belief he has in himself which has been high class. Rehan, gosh, 18-year old. Amazing to look at him outside. The confidence he has in himself to go out there and do what he does. He's not a finished article but having someone like that coming and affect the game like he has in this game in particular is seriously excitable to English cricket. I won't forget the cap presentation, I know his dad was very proud and his mum back home is a proud woman and that experience in itself was very incredible.
We knew what cricket means to Pakistan and we knew what it meant for Pakistan for us to be here. The support we've had not just from our amazing Barmy Army, all of the games they've been incredible. We've got the best fans in the world also to the people of Pakistan who came out here and cheered the game of cricket. We thought that the cricket that was played was celebrated and everyone enjoyed their time. We obviously came here to win but we also came here to play an exciting brand of cricket and get people in to watch."
The belief that I have and ten other guys on the field with me in what we do and I think that resonates around everybody. The confidence that every individual has in themselves and the confidence everyone has in the people around them, I think its unbelievable. To be able to lead a group out who follow that belief and confidence gives me so much confidence in myself. That's a very special thing to be able to say towards your players.
If have to pinpoint than everyone will be in for a while because every person has proved a point in some kind of a match winning performance but Harry Brook has been unbelievable for us this series. Coming here and scoring so many runs the way he did was a serious treat to watch. The calmness he has got at such a young age and the belief he has in himself which has been high class. Rehan, gosh, 18-year old. Amazing to look at him outside. The confidence he has in himself to go out there and do what he does. He's not a finished article but having someone like that coming and affect the game like he has in this game in particular is seriously excitable to English cricket. I won't forget the cap presentation, I know his dad was very proud and his mum back home is a proud woman and that experience in itself was very incredible.
We knew what cricket means to Pakistan and we knew what it meant for Pakistan for us to be here. The support we've had not just from our amazing Barmy Army, all of the games they've been incredible. We've got the best fans in the world also to the people of Pakistan who came out here and cheered the game of cricket. We thought that the cricket that was played was celebrated and everyone enjoyed their time. We obviously came here to win but we also came here to play an exciting brand of cricket and get people in to watch."
Ben Stokes receives the series winning trophy.
That's it from our coverage of a terrific Test series as England clinch the three match series by 3-0 against Pakistan away from home. Ninaad Dixit here signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Ayan Chatterjee and scorer Yogesh. Stay tuned for more cricketing action from around the world.