Shan Masood Leads Pakistan to Historic Home Series Win

Shan Savours Pakistan’ s Soaked In
Sweat And Blood*

Pakistan, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Shan Masood said his team showed tremendous character to register back-to-back victories against England and win their first test series on home soil since 2021.

Smarting from an innings defeat in the series opener, Pakistan levelled the series in Multan before arriving in Rawalpindi where they rolled out a raging turner.

Their spin twins Noman Ali and Sajid Khan claimed 19 of the 20 English wickets to bowl Pakistan to a nine-wicket win that also secured their 2-1 series victory on Saturday.

Like London buses they come together,” Shan said of their successive victories in the series.
“The first win came after a long time and it was backed up by a series win. It’s special.

After losing the opener, Pakistan took a bold selection call by dropping three frontline players – batter Babar Azam and the pace duo of Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi.

Sajid and Noman were brought in and the duo claimed 39 of the 40 English wickets in the last two tests, apart from producing useful cameos with the bat, to vindicate the move.

Sajid cut his chin while batting on Friday and had to change his bloodied shirt but returned on Saturday to spin a web around the English batters.
“For everyone to stand up and give their best means a lot,” said Shan, who sealed Pakistan’s victory with a six off England spinner Shoaib Bashir.

England folded for a meagre 112 in their second innings with only Joe Root (33) looking comfortable against Pakistan’s rampaging spinners.

The last couple of tests we’ve been thrown some challenges, and I think it’s pretty easy to assess that were weren’t able to stand up to those challenges,” said England captain Ben Stokes.

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