Pakistan’s Humiliating Defeat Against England Creates Record First Time In 147 Years

Despite scoring 556 runs in the first innings of the Multan Test, the Pakistan cricket team lost to England by an innings and 47 runs. England scored a whopping total of 823/7 before declaring the innings. In reply, Pakistan could register only 220 runs in the second innings. Pakistan lost the Test in a ‘record-breaking’ way.

With this humiliating defeat, Pakistan etched itself in history books by becoming the first team in the history of cricket to lose a Test by an innings after scoring over 500 runs in the first innings.

In the 147-year-long history of Test cricket, no team has suffered such a defeat like that of Pakistan. A double hundred from Joe Root and a triple century from Harry Brook ensured this great defeat of Pakistan at the hands of England.

Before facing England, Pakistan had lost the Test series 0-2 at home against Bangladesh.