{"id":1988,"date":"2024-10-11T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:02:06","slug":"england-crush-pakistan-despite-500-runs-set-historic-test-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2024\/10\/11\/england-crush-pakistan-despite-500-runs-set-historic-test-record\/","title":{"rendered":"England Crush Pakistan Despite 500+ Runs, Set Historic Test Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan faced a historic defeat in the first Test of the three-match series against England at the Multan Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Despite posting a mammoth first-innings total of 556 runs, Pakistan lost by an innings and 47 runs, marking the first time in 147 years of Test cricket that a team scoring 500+ runs in their first innings has lost by an innings.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, Pakistan captain Shan Masood opted to bat, and the hosts capitalized on the batting-friendly conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In response, England mounted a solid comeback. Despite early setbacks, their middle and lower-order batsmen took control, leading to a first-innings score of 823 and a lead of 267 runs.<\/p>\n<p>In their second innings, the hosts faltered, losing wickets at regular intervals. Despite valiant half-centuries from Salman Ali Agha and Aamir Jamal, the rest of the batting lineup failed to build significant partnerships, leading to a crushing defeat.<\/p>\n<p>This loss gives England a 1-0 lead in the series, leaving Pakistan with a daunting challenge ahead as they look to bounce back in the next match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan faced a historic defeat in the first Test of the three-match series against England at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Despite posting a mammoth first-innings total of 556 runs, Pakistan lost by an innings and 47 runs, marking the first time in 147 years of Test cricket that a team scoring 500+ runs in their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}