‘Aapne 6 losses in a row kaise achieve kiya?’: Ramiz Raja’s aims dig at Shan Masood after PAK win series vs ENG | Cricket News
Pakan Test skipper Shan Masood has to deflect some uncomfortable questions from Ramiz Raja after the Men in Green won the 3rd Test match against England, there clinching a home series since 2021.
Raja, however, decided to focus on Pakan’s woeful form at home before this series win asking Masood how they had managed to lose 6 matches in a row.
“Aapne 6 losses in a row kaise achieve kiya? (How did you achieve six losses in a row?),” Raja asked the Pakan skipper which caught Masood off guard.
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But he composed himself and replied, “Ramiz bhai, we needed this win, the nation needed this win and I’m really happy that Pakan won.”
In the match, spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan suppressed England’s batting attack inside three days and earned Pakan a long-awaited and series-clinching nine-wicket win in the third and final Test on Saturday.
The 38-year-old left-arm spinner Ali and off-spinner Khan, 31, had grabbed all 20 wickets on a recycled second Test pitch to level the series last week and yet again clipped the batters on an engineered dry surface sharing 19 wickets as England was dismissed for 112 on Day 3.
It was England’s lowest innings total in Pakan, eclipsing its previous score of 130 all out in Lahore in 1987.
Pakan, which got a meaningful 77-run first innings lead, reached 37-1 at the stroke of lunch to notch its first home series win since 2021 when it beat South Africa 2-0.
Skipper Masood (23 not out), who lost six successive test matches as captain before England got beaten in the second test, sealed the win with a six over long-off against Shoaib Bashir after smashing four successive boundaries to Jack Leach.
“It’s special,” Masood said. “The first win came after a long time and it was backed up a series win … it’s about character. To be here and standing as the wining team, it’s the most special thing for us.” Leach grabbed the only wicket to fall when he successfully went for an lbw television referral against Saim Ayub, who made eight.
