Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    6.4 big appeal as Abbas jags one back into the pads! Doesn't look quite right to me, but Pakistan review! Duckett is not a tall man, and he was camped on the back foot... looked to be going over to the naked eye, but we shall see! Hitting the top of off! Well, there we go! The nip and the length was ideal, and that is Abbas' 900th first-class wicket! Already, Pakistan have vindication for bowling first! 26/2
    4.6 exceptional take from RIzwan! Leg-sided delivery, rising into the thighs, Gay closes his face to pick off the leg-glance, he gets a decent piece of it, but the keeper took off immediately, flung out his right glove, and clung onto a blinder! 21/1
    47.1 Salman is a leaping salmon! That's simply incredible from the sub/former captain! A loose back-foot drive from Cox, a flying edge to second slip, Salman saw it clean off the bat, timed his leap to perfection, arcing to his right, back bent like a high-jumper, and clinging on in his outstretched right hand! 187/6
    10.3 pinned on the back leg - given! And Root won't be reviewing this one! Huge wicket for Pakistan, and Root again done by the medium-pace/keeper-up combo. Dropped on a nagging length and this one comes back to rap him just above the knee roll. It didn't have far to go... Salmon, as far as Paul Reiffel saw it 36/3
    17.1 there's a jaffa, all right! Ali lands the knockout blow on Pakistan's nemesis. Perfect length, jagging back down the slope, smashes into middle and off. Bit of a wafty shot from Brook, but he was playing for one in the channel, only to be castled by a big in-ducker 77/4
    31.2 nudged to leg, mix-up in the middle, easy run-out at the keeper's end! What was I saying about them going well? Fired in from midwicket - Masood the fielder - and Lawrence had got more than halfway down. Cox, right to be wary, took a couple of steps only to send him back, but by then Lozza was toast! Pakistan's fielding has let them down again on occasion, but everyone did their bit here 120/5
    52.2 another nip-backer, Smith's stay is over! Similar vibes to the Brook dismissal. Hits his line and length outside off, finds significant jag off the seam, Smith drives with hard hands through the original line, and has his stumps splayed! 222/7
    66.4 picks out long-off, Usman does the trick! Not a clean connection from Atkinson as he tried to go down the ground once more. Ali was out there waiting, runs in and pouches safely to complete the dismissal. No first Test fifty for Aktinson (though he does have a hundred), but the tail has wagged effectively to get England up to 290 290/10
    52.4 another nip-backer, Ali's in the mood! Fuller length this time but same result! Robinson steps into the off-stump line, the ball jags sharply past his loose push, and the off stump is pegged back! 222/8
    55.3 Abbas' turn to rampage through the turnstile! Back of a length, nips off the seam, keeps a touch low, Archer's head is gazing somewhere over the building works in the Tavern Stand as his stumps get splatted! 243/9
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    30
    48
    59
    4
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    62.5
    Extras
    24 (b 2, lb 11, nb 11)
    TOTAL
    290 all out (66.4 Overs, RR: 4.35)
    Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Emilio Gay, 4.6 ov), 2-26 (Ben Duckett, 6.4 ov), 3-36 (Joe Root, 10.3 ov), 4-77 (Harry Brook, 17.1 ov), 5-120 (Dan Lawrence, 31.2 ov), 6-187 (Jordan Cox, 47.1 ov), 7-222 (Jamie Smith, 52.2 ov), 8-222 (Ollie Robinson, 52.4 ov), 9-243 (Jofra Archer, 55.3 ov), 10-290 (Gus Atkinson, 66.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    Mohammad Abbas2037343.6500
    Khurram Shahzad1507915.2605
    Mohammad Ali2228633.906
    Ali Usman9.413914.0300
  • BATSMEN
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    3.4 there's the breakthrough! Archer fires it through fuller, so tight to off stump at 91mph/146kph. Masood was stuck in the crease, reluctant to come forward to meet the length. It's a thin off-balanced edge, skimming through to Smith. He's found his range since switching to over the wicket! 5/1
    34.4 short, top-edged pull, Azan holes out! Round the wicket, Robinson bangs in the 70-odd-mph bouncer, and the opener is taken by surprise! A steepler out to Gay at square leg, who backpedals well. A penny for Archer's thoughts at this traumatic moment... 106/8
    14.1 full length, driven! Is this an edge?! England reckon there is... the umpires are consulting and will send it upstairs themselves... that implies they reckon there was bat involved, but was it a bump-ball? The bat came swishing through the full length on the drive, outside the eyeline, it could have grazed the ground at the same time, but the replay is unequivocal! A clear spike as ball passes bat. England have their wicket on the stroke of lunch! 16/2
    16.6 GOTTIM - jags the edge, flies to third slip! Tongue zeroes in on that off-stump weakness again, and there's no doubt about this one carrying. Hard hands from Babar, and just enough movement off the straight. Cox swallows it on the dive and England have snuffed out the (mini-)revival 30/3
    22.1 round the wicket, hits a metronomic length and nips it back into the pads! England like it, umpire not convinced... so Root reviews. Struck him above the knee roll, could be high? But no! Shakeel is a small man, and ball-tracking has it smashing middle stump! Paul Reiffel has to overturn his decision, and Robinson gets his first first ball back (a theme of his summer) 63/4
    30.1 nips back, keeps so low! England have reviewed again! Rizwan was examining his inside-edge as they consulted, but was it a bluff? We shall see! Huge jag off the seam, no bat involved, that's surely struck him in line, but was it doing too much? No it was not! Crashing into the top of middle and leg. England are on the march again! 91/5
    33.1 loose back-foot poke, drags the ball onto his stumps! Reward for Archer, who had bent his back for minimal reward today. Good lift on a fifth-stump line, Usman played outside his eyeline, and a fat edge pegged back the off stump 104/6
    34.2 flimsy poke outside off, Brook snaffles the edge at second slip! That was about as inevitable as these things get. Feet stuck in clay outside leg. Bat dangling over the line of off. Here ends an unremarkable stay 105/7
    37.2 spanks the off stump, that's the end of that! Archer claims his third, as Abbas has a hack through the length ball, and finds thin air to the nipbacker. That has been very comprehensive 110/10
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    Extras
    20 (b 12, lb 1, nb 2, w 5)
    TOTAL
    110 all out (37.2 Overs, RR: 2.94)
    Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Shan Masood, 3.4 ov), 2-16 (Abdullah Shafique, 14.1 ov), 3-30 (Babar Azam, 16.6 ov), 4-63 (Saud Shakeel, 22.1 ov), 5-91 (Mohammad Rizwan, 30.1 ov), 6-104 (Ali Usman, 33.1 ov), 7-105 (Khurram Shahzad, 34.2 ov), 8-106 (Azan Awais, 34.4 ov), 9-110 (Mohammad Abbas, 37.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    OE Robinson1361140.8401
    JC Archer11.212632.2901
    JC Tongue622724.510
    AAP Atkinson713304.7100
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    1.3 flubbed to mid-off! Loose waft from Duckett and Pakistan have their first! Real clubbie dismissal, piling into a long half-volley but mistiming it in the air. Simple catch for Babar going to his left. Duckett's rough series continues 1/1
    23.4 Gay gazundered, plumb lbw! This has almost pea-rolled along the pitch and hit him on the back shin! Even Paul Reiffel doesn't think it's going over... Up goes the finger and there's no thought of a review. Poor Gay, he battled for so long, only to get an unplayable shooter 83/4
    3.1 fired in, traps Cox in front of middle! Beseeching appeal, not given by Paul Reiffel - but Babar reviews. Height the only thing that can save him, I think, but he was deep in the crease. And it's not going over! Pretty much plumb, hitting the top of middle and leg - and up goes the finger this time around. Cox has been gobbled up, Khurram has a second 13/2
    16.3 done him again on the crease! Root puffs out his cheeks and looks to his partner, but he knows he's toast! Ali found that nip-backer that proved so effective in the first innings, Root was only half forward by the time the ball seared into his front pad... he's reviewing, but that is as plumb as plumb can be! That is Root's ninth lbw in 12 Test innings! A crisis of technique loading? 60/3
    35.5 gottim this time! Another nibbler, Rizwan clings on and up goes the finger! Brook tried to cover the movement only for the ball to graze the shoulder of the bat. The plan eventually comes together for Pakistan, and England lose a fifth 128/5
    49.2 that's a lovely ball! Perfect line, perfect length, perfect seam movement! Lawrence stepped into his drive but was too eager in his advances, and as the ball jags half a bat's width, it kisses the inside edge and clatters into the top of the leg stump! England's main man can't make his hard work count from yesterday, and now the honours board really is in sight! 186/8
    39.6 closes the face too soon this time! Masood at square leg clings on, having dropped a similar chance in the first innings. There was extra nip on a good length, and it takes the inside half of Smith's bat as he tries to flick through midwicket again. Another wicket chiselled away 149/6
    44.6 pinned on the front pad, given! Mohammad Ali lets rip with a familiar bellow of celebration! Pitched up further, again nibbling back in. Atkinson is beaten comprehensively as he swishes across the line - and he won't be reviewing 162/7
    51.1 five for Abbas, and the delight is off the charts! And it's a typically skilful piece of work that earns his place on the honours board! Perfect line and length once more, but whereas the ball to Lawrence darted back in, this one nibbled half a bat's width away, at 79mph, and snicked the edge for Rizwan to gobble the chance with a very sharp take! 187/9
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    54.2 direct-hit run-out! Well, blow me down. Of all the ways this innings would end, Pakistan fielding brilliance wasn't high on the list. But Babar picks up sharply as Archer aims an angry slap into the covers, Tongue responded a touch sluggishly, in fact he barely responded at all, and wasn't in the frame as the stumps at the far end were pinged down! 208/10
    Extras
    17 (b 4, lb 4, nb 4, w 5)
    TOTAL
    208 all out (54.2 Overs, RR: 3.82)
    Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Ben Duckett, 1.3 ov), 2-13 (Jordan Cox, 3.1 ov), 3-60 (Joe Root, 16.3 ov), 4-83 (Emilio Gay, 23.4 ov), 5-128 (Harry Brook, 35.5 ov), 6-149 (Jamie Smith, 39.6 ov), 7-162 (Gus Atkinson, 44.6 ov), 8-186 (Dan Lawrence, 49.2 ov), 9-187 (Ollie Robinson, 51.1 ov), 10-208 (Josh Tongue, 54.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    Mohammad Abbas2235752.5900
    Khurram Shahzad143562401
    Mohammad Ali16.217024.2813
    Ali Usman201708.500
  • BATSMEN
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    30.1 back of a length and veering into strike the pad but the lbw appeal has been shot down. England review. Masood shuffles a long across off and is struck in line with off and middle. No inside edge involved. Ball-tracking indicates that it would have crashed into leg stump. The review is successful and England break Pakistan's flourishing stand 111/4
    4.3 sharp nip-backer from Robinson and it thuds into the back pad! The finger goes up. Awais has a chat with Masood and calls for a review, but this is pretty close. Wide on the crease, on a length and curves back in to beat the inside edge. Flat line on UltraEdge as ball passes bat. It would have crashed into leg stump. Umpire's call on impact, which means Awais has to depart and Pakistan retain the review. Gone for 6 7/1
    4.6 Robinson knocks over Shafique! Pings the top of off. Robinson lands it on a perfect length. On a good length, angling in, then seaming away late to beat the outside edge. Shafique prods at it, plays for the inward angle, and then sees the ball crash into the top of off. Another Robinson special and England are just eight wickets away or rather seven if Imam isn't fit to bat 7/2
    7.1 brute of a bouncer from Archer! Babar has been bounced out. Throat-high lifter on the stumps and rears up at the batter. Archer's high pace and steep bounce discomfits Babar who takes his eyes off the ball. He tries to pull this 91mph snorter but ends up flapping or fending at the ball. The ball pops up in the air after hitting the edge and then the helmet. Ouch. Cox settles underneath it at third slip. Another familiar Pakistan collapse? 14/3
    46.1 holes out to deep square leg! Oh no! That's such a shame! Shakeel took the brave option, when perhaps he should have played the percentages and trusted his team-mates to hang around. It's a fierce, flat launch across the leg-stump short ball, Brook at square leg barely has to move. He receives a huge ovation, but he's clearly crestfallen as he traipses through the Long Room 169/7
    32.5 on a length and nips back in, Rizwan has a slog at it, eying up the leg side, but misses it. But he might have been struck outside the line. So, Rizwan goes for a review of the on-field out decision. Flat line on Ultra Edge as ball passes the bat and gloves. Impact in line with off and the tracker returns umpire's call on height. Another failure for Rizwan. He has to depart for 1 after missing the leg-side hoick. Robinson on the brink of another five-wicket haul 115/5
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    43.4 that's done him in! Hard length from Archer, big nip off the seam. Usman was unable to stay in line, so there was a big gap between bat and pad, as the ball kissed the inside-edge and smashed the top of the stumps, via the thigh pad! The short-ball ploy makes the incision. Pakistan are effectively seven-down now 146/6
    48.3 slower ball again, pegs back middle stump! Those one-day tekkers coming in handy against two batters swinging for the hills. Khurram can't connect on another mow across the length, and this is almost done now 176/8
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    50.5 the fast, full length follow-up does the business! Ali drives hard and impulsively, the edge flies at serious pace into the cordon, but Brook's safe hands at second slip grab the chance with ease to seal England's first series win since December 2024! 194/10
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    Extras
    12 (b 4, lb 6, nb 1, w 1)
    TOTAL
    194 all out (50.5 Overs, RR: 3.81)
    Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Azan Awais, 4.3 ov), 2-7 (Abdullah Shafique, 4.6 ov), 3-14 (Babar Azam, 7.1 ov), 4-111 (Shan Masood, 30.1 ov), 5-115 (Mohammad Rizwan, 32.5 ov), 6-146 (Ali Usman, 43.4 ov), 7-169 (Saud Shakeel, 46.1 ov), 8-176 (Khurram Shahzad, 48.3 ov), 9-194 (Mohammad Ali, 50.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    OE Robinson1452441.7100
    JC Archer1517324.8611
    JC Tongue8.514635.200
    AAP Atkinson1124103.7200
    DW Lawrence2200000

Match Details

Toss

Pakistan , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

England led the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

11.00 start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00

Match days

27,28,29,30 August 2026 (5-day match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

England 12, Pakistan 0

Close of Play

  • Thu, 27 Aug - day 1 - England 1st innings 248/9 (AAP Atkinson 34*, JC Tongue 1*, 56 ov)
  • Fri, 28 Aug - day 2 - England 2nd innings 81/3 (EN Gay 30*, HC Brook 7*, 22 ov)
  • Sat, 29 Aug - day 3 - England 2nd innings 177/7 (DW Lawrence 50*, OE Robinson 2*, 46.5 ov)
  • Sun, 30 Aug - day 4 - Pakistan 2nd innings 194 (50.5 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

Pakistan 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st7Shan MasoodAzan Awais
2nd0Shan MasoodAbdullah Shafique
3rd7Shan MasoodBabar Azam
4th97Shan MasoodSaud Shakeel
5th4Mohammad RizwanSaud Shakeel
6th31Saud ShakeelAli Usman
7th23Saud ShakeelKhurram Shahzad
8th7Mohammad AbbasKhurram Shahzad
9th18Mohammad AbbasMohammad Ali