England captain Ben Stokes was left scratching his head after a Pakistani journalist struggled to border a query across the guests’ 823-run whole from the primary Check in Multan. The incident occurred on the eve of the third and decisive Check in Rawalpindi. The journalist made a hilarious try to border a query in English, leaving Stokes fully bemused. He needed to ask Stokes whether or not or not England can replicate their 823-run whole from the first Check within the collection decider at Rawalpindi.
After a few failed makes an attempt, the journalist lastly managed to a get a response from Stokes, who did his greatest to speak with the person regardless of the language barrier.
“That will be good,” Stokes responded after the journalist requested him if England can replicate their mammoth whole on a batting-friendly monitor on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.
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In the meantime, Stokes received the toss and opted to bat within the collection decider. England are chasing a second successive Check collection win in Pakistan, following their 3-0 routing of the hosts two years again.
Pakistan levelled the collection in Multan final week after star batter Babar Azam and pacer Shaheen Afridi had been dropped from the crew by the brand new choice committee.
Pakistan named an unchanged XI consisting of spin-twins Sajid Khan and Noman Ali. The duo took all 20 English wickets in Multan to place Pakistan in rivalry of a collection win.
In the meantime, England recalled pacer Gus Atkinson after resting him for the second recreation. Spinner Rehan Ahmed additionally makes a return with the guests dropping Durham pacer Brydon Carse and Matthew Potts.
Pakistan XI: Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (capt), Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Agha, Aamer Jamal, Sajid Khan, Noman Ali, Zahid Mehmood
England XI: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Jamie Smith (wk), 8 Gus Atkinson, 9 Rehan Ahmed, 10 Jack Leach, 11 Shoaib Bashir.
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