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PAK vs ENG: Pakistan team is continuously lowering its level in Test cricket by performing shamefully. In the first Test match played against England at Headingley, Leeds, Pakistan had to face a crushing defeat by an innings and 103 runs. This match ended within just 3 days. Pakistan team could not even touch the figure of 200 runs in both the innings of this test match. Whereas England had scored 409 runs in the first innings. Only one Abdullah Shafiq scored a half-century for Pakistan in both the innings. After this defeat, Pakistan has now reached the last position in the points table of the World Test Championship. At the same time, after this big defeat against England, Salman Ali Aga, who is taking over the captaincy in place of Babar Azam, has cited poor batting as a major reason and was also seen making excuses regarding the bowlers.

What did Salman Ali Aga say after the crushing defeat against England?

After the defeat in the Headingley Test, Pakistani captain Salman Ali Aga said, England has completely defeated us and it would be absolutely right to say this. We have made many mistakes. Our batting is inexperienced in these conditions. We definitely have bowlers who can touch the speed of 140 km per hour, but these three fast bowlers had performed well in West Indies and these conditions are favorable for them.

England has always been a difficult tour – Salman Ali Aga

Salman Ali Aga also said that he had come to England only a week ago and the team did not get a chance to adapt to the conditions. The Pakistani captain said. “England tours are always difficult. It's not like we came here a month ago. We came here only a week ago. This is not enough time to adapt to the conditions here.

Pakistani batsmen were in bad shape

After losing the toss and batting first in the Headingley Test, Pakistan's entire team was reduced to 171 runs. Abdullah Shafiq scored the highest score of 61 runs for the team in the first innings. Apart from this, no Pakistani batsman was successful in scoring a fifty. Imam-ul-Haq scored 42 runs and captain Salman Ali Aga scored only 21 runs. Pakistani batsmen looked completely helpless in front of the fast bowlers of England. Both the fast bowlers of England, Josh Tong, bowled lethally and took 5 wickets for 46 runs. Whereas Ollie Robinson took 5 wickets for just 51 runs.

In response to Pakistan's first innings, England made a huge score of 409 runs in its first innings and took a strong lead of 238 runs. Harry Brook played an inning of 91 runs for England. While Jordan Cox scored 73 runs and captain Joe Root scored 66 runs. Dan Lawrence played a quick inning of 51 runs. For Pakistan, spinner Ali Usman took maximum 5 wickets. Khurram Shahzad took 3 wickets. Whereas Mohammad Abbas and Mohammad Ali got 1-1 success. After this, Pakistan team was all out for 135 runs in the second innings. for the team Mohammad Rizwan scored the highest 41 runs. Whereas from England side, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue and Joffra Archer created panic by taking 3-3 wickets.