Late wicket gives England hope after Shafique and Masood’s Multan hundreds

Test Match Special

BBC

News, Cricket, Sports News, Sports

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Agnew is joined by Steven Finn and Aatif Nawaz to review a tough opening day for England in Pakistan. Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood both scored centuries, but England dismissed Babar Azam late on to give them hope.

We also hear from England assistant coach Jeetan Patel and Pakistan’s Abdullah Shafique

And we celebrate statistician Andy Zaltzman reaching 50 not out.

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0:47.0	The CMS Podcast.
0:49.0	Live from Pakistan.
0:50.0	Get full analysis of Pakistan versus England on the BBC Sport website and app.
0:56.0	I'm Jonathan Agnew and welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast looking back on the opening day of the first Pakistan
1:01.7	England's bowler's striving opening day of the first Pakistan- England test match from Multan.
1:03.6	England's bowlers striving hard in the heat,
1:06.1	with wickets hard to come by.
1:07.6	Shan drives back to Leach.
1:08.8	He's gotten bowled.
1:09.8	There we go.
1:12.2	Jack Leach gets his wicket.
1:14.0	Sean Masoo, over 150, hit it firmly back and Leach took a good low catch.
1:22.0	And we sense that might be coming as well that
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