Pakistan Battered By England As Azhar Revives Batting Form

Pakistan commander Azhar Ali drove from the front with a splendid undefeated 141, yet England despite everything upheld the follow-on at Southampton on Sunday as James Anderson was left frustratingly shy of turning into the first pace man to step through 600 Exam wickets. 

Pakistan were dismissd for 273, a tremendous 310 runs behind England’s overwhelming 583-8 proclaimed, on the third day of the third and last Test at the Ageas Bowl. 

Anderson took 5-56 out of 23 overs — his 29th five-wicket pull in Tests — as the hosts, 1-0 up in the three-coordinate challenge, squeezed for their first arrangement prevail upon Pakistan in 10 years. 

That left Anderson with 598 wickets yet he would have had more had three gets not been dropped off the 38-year-old’s bowling with the new ball. 

After England skipper Joe Root had implemented the follow-on, umpires Richard Illingworth and Michael Gough chose the blurring light was dangerous for Pakistan to begin their subsequent innings — with Azhar coming out to open with Shan Masood — despite the fact that the floodlights were on. 

The main bowlers to have stepped through 600 wickets in Examinations are three resigned spinners — Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Murali­tharan (800), Australia’s Shane Warne (708) and India’s Anil Kumble (619). 

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Pakistan had been in desperate waterways at 75-5. In any case, Azhar imparted a remain of 138 to wicket-guardian Mohammad Rizwan (53). During his innings, Azhar become only the fifth Pakistan batsman after Younis Khan, Javed Miandad, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf to have scored 6,000 Test runs. 

Azhar, striving to abstain from being pronounced lbw once more, finished his seventeenth century in 81 Tests when he spread drove Bess for his fifteenth four of every 205 balls after the tea stretch. 

Rizwan’s fine innings finished when he was very much gotten on 53 down the leg side by inverse number Buttler. 

The England attendant held a surprisingly better one, high one-gave jumping leg-side catch to dismiss tailender Shaheen Afridi off Stuart Broad. 

England, in blurring light however with the floodlights on full shaft, at that point dropped three gets to Anderson’s sadness. 

Rory Burns grassed a normal possibility when Azhar — who struck 21 limits during his 272-ball innings in a short time — on 116 edged a drive before fourth slip Zak Crawley stunned Mohammad Abbas when the No 10 was on zero. 

Wide, because of a dropped straightforward possibility from Abbas at mid-on, off Anderson, tossed the ball in dissatisfaction at the stumps and ran out the tailender. 

The run of dropped gets off Anderson’s bowling finished when he had last man Naseem Shah taken in the sneaks past Dom Sibley.