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England’s Ben Duckett hits ton before Pakistan’s Sajid Khan triggers collapse

  • Second Test, day two: Pakistan 366, England 239-6
  • Duckett’s 114 was not enough against Pakistan’s attack

Sajid Khan is a player who demands attention, a character whose moustache, however eyecatching, is not half as flamboyant as his celebrations. As England’s innings imploded across a dramatic afternoon, and an old, tired pitch that had held firm across nearly seven days of Test cricket finally started to surrender, there were quite a few of those.

He is a man who could hardly be more theatrical if he donned a scarlet bowler hat and started twirling a cane, and here he found a stage. The tourists looked on course to comfortably match Pakistan’s first-innings total of 366 until, as the day drew towards a close and with a ball showing the first signs of old age, the spinners found some turn and course of the game took a twist. At stumps England were six down and still 127 behind.

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Source: Cricket - The Guardian

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