It took England an hour and a half on the final day to complete an extraordinary and historic victory over Pakistan in the first Test, in the process becoming the first side to concede as many as 500 runs at the start of a match and still win it by an innings. The hosts were eventually dismissed for 220, the margin of victory an innings and 47 runs.

The game ended with two wickets in four balls for Jack Leach, starting with him brilliantly catching Shaheen Shah Afridi off his own bowling to put Pakistan on the precipice. Naseem Shah then came in, hit his second ball down the ground for six and tried to do the same with his third, but this time he missed, leaving Jamie Smith to complete a straightforward stumping. With Abrar Ahmed having been hospitalised with a fever on Wednesday evening and still there as the game reached its conclusion, Pakistan’s innings was at an end.

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