England lost four wickets in the first hour in Multan as they fell to an 152-run defeat
England’s already remote chance of turning the second Test around evaporated on a steamy Friday morning as they threw their bats around – literally, in one case – and their wickets away, allowing Noman Ali and Sajid Khan to bowl Pakistan to their first home Test win for 12 games and three and a half years.
Throughout England stuck true to their assistant coach Paul Collingwood’s promise on Thursday evening that they would not abandon their mantra of playing attacking shots and looking to score rapidly. The tactic’s intended goal of putting pressure on the bowlers was somewhat undermined by the regularity with which they lost wickets.
Like Root, Harry Brook fell to Noman, who was finally getting reward for the quality of his bowling across the game after Sajid hogged the first-innings wicket-taking.
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