Pakistan vs England 1st Test Live Score: Will England be Able to take a Big Lead?

It would be for the Pakistani bowlers to find some sort of breakthrough and wickets to keep the game away from a draw.

England is just running 64 runs behind before the start of the Day, and credit for a lot of it has to be given to the way they batted. Joe Root kept his brilliant form with the bat whereas Harry Brook continued his spectacular record in Pakistan. Both have gone past their century and will by eyeing to go further on for as long as possible.

For Pakistan, it would be for the bowlers to go hard and find some sort of breakthrough to get wickets to keep the game away from what might turn out to be a draw, even after the conditions not allowing them to do so.

Pakistan Playing XI: Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (c), Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Aamer Jamal, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed

England Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir

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