Pakistan thrash England to win 1st Test

AFP  |  London 

beat England by the commanding margin of nine wickets to win the first Test at Lord's on Sunday.

Imam-ul-Haq was 18 not out and Haris Sohail, who hit the winning boundary off Dominic Bess, 39 not out.

England were undone by two top-order batting collapses, slumping to 184 all out after winning the toss in their first innings and declining to 160 for six in their second before fifties from and Test debutant prevented an innings defeat.

This was England's seventh loss in 10 Tests as their first match under new national selector ended in a resounding defeat.

The second Test at Headingley starts on Friday.

Brief scores: England 1st Inns 184 (A Cook 70; 4-23, 4-51) 1st Inns 363 (68, 59, Shadab Khan 52, 50; B Stokes 3-73) England 2nd Inns 242 (J Root 68, J Buttler 67, D Bess 57: 4-36, 4-41) Pakistan 2nd Inns 66-1.

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First Published: Sun, May 27 2018. 17:40 IST