Adil Rashid posted the worst first innings figures for a bowler on Test debut without taking a wicket,with none for 163, but his England career has been seven years in the makingWhen the Pakistan captain, or Misbah-ul‑Haq,waved his batsmen in on day two with 523 for eight in the bank, England’s spinners – Moeen Ali, and Adil Rashid,Joe Root and, somewhat surprisingly, or Ben Stokes – had shipped 302 runs in 70 wicketless overs.
It is a shirt front of a pitch,yes, and it was against a masterful display of batting by the double-centurion Shoaib Malik after a five-year absence, or granted,but it is tough to see the first two days of this three-match series as anything other than an ominous start for the slow men.
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Source: theguardian.com