‘Who needs T20?’ – Twitter dazed as England rack up 506 runs on Day 1 of Test against Pakistan
Day 1 of the first test match between England and Pakistan took place at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on December 1, Thursday. England won the toss and chose to bat on a track that looked like a dead flat wicket on which the batters could feast. There was a slice of history involved as well because England were playing a Test tour on Pakistan soil after 17 years.
The Three Lions had toured Pakistan for a 7-match T20 series earlier in which England beat Pakistan 4-3 in a closely fought series under the captaincy of Moeen Ali. England made the most of the conditions which favoured the batters. There were four hundreds scored by the England batters on Day 1 of the Test match.
Zak Crawley scored 122 off 111 balls with 21 fours. Ben Duckett smashed 107 off 110 balls with 15 fours. Olie Pope whacked the bowlers and made a quick 108 off 104 balls with 14 fours. Harry Brook completed the carnage by scoring 101 off just 81 balls with fourteen fours and two sixes. At the end of day 1, England ended up on a mammoth 506-4 after 75 overs.
Pakistan were annihilated by England in all three sessions as England scored 174 runs in the morning session. 158 runs in the afternoon session and 174 runs in the evening session. The last block of runs in the third session came in just 21 overs. On a day when there was a hemorrhage of runs only three maidens were bowled by the Pakistan bowlers.
Duckett and Crawley put up a century stand for the first wicket in just 13.5 overs. In another big event, Harry Brook whacked Saud Shakeel for six fours in an over and also missed out on the record to score the fastest test hundred by an England player. Ben Stokes also blasted a quickfire 34 off 15 balls to give England the ascendancy at the end of the day. The Men in Green were saved by bad light as only 75 overs of play were possible.
Twitter was abuzz, let us take a look at the reactions here:
A total of 1,178 runs scored for loss 8 wickets across 2 seperate tests being played in 2 different conditions in 2 different continents within a span of 3 days of #Cricket in a cumulative of 252.4 overs #AUSvsWI #AUSvWI #ENGvsPAK #crickettwitter #PAKvsENG #ENGvPAK #PAKvENG
— vineet jacob (@JacobVineet) December 1, 2022
England 506-4 off 75 🤣
Australia 598-4 off 152.4 😴Chop on fellas!#PAKvsEng #AUSvsWI
— Xenos Foster 💙 (@xboxfoster) December 1, 2022
Imagine if Pakistan actually bowled their full allocation of overs. How many would have England scored in a day then!#PAKvsEng pic.twitter.com/rSkKQPf9y2
— Rain Card Cricket (@cricketmeme) December 1, 2022
“We have best bowling line-up in the world”
More than 500 runs in a single day, in just 75 ovs, that too when 14 of ur squad is down with some unknown virus. Brutal r@pe!#PakVsEng
— SmritiSinha (@SmritiS99940480) December 1, 2022
Congratulations to @TheRealPCB making this road pitch 👏 #PAKvsEng #PindiTest
— Saajan Ali (@SaajanAli07) December 1, 2022
Who needs T20? #PAKvsEng
— Rob Weaver (@robweaverwm) December 1, 2022
Babar Azam to ENG players 😭#1stTest#PAKvsEng #PakistanCricket pic.twitter.com/CKM5gMFS83
— ShahZ (@ProfuseVerismo) December 1, 2022
Pakistan became the first team to concede four centuries in a single day in test cricket…
Babar = koi fark nehi padta. ,…#PAKvsEng pic.twitter.com/G3CMqOVL40
— 𝙅𝙐𝙉𝘼𝙄𝘿 𝙍𝘼𝙕𝘼🇵🇰 (@Junaidtweets99) December 1, 2022
#Pakistan bowlers to #England batters #PAKvsEng pic.twitter.com/lNGNAxLZtT
— 🇵🇰Zeeshanزیشان🍉🇮🇪 (@Z__AC) December 1, 2022
Babar Azam and Ramiz Raja to Pitch Curator after Rawalpindi Test : 🤭#PakvsEng2022 #PAKvsEng pic.twitter.com/qUV3P9X2Vm
— Tanya Gupta (@Quirky_30) December 1, 2022
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