Abrar Ahmed created a storm during his debut with a 7 wicket haul to skittle out England for 281. The bespectacled youngster has turned head with his ability to bowl variations. The 24 year old made his debut for Pakistan in test cricket on Friday against England.
The English team playing Baz-Ball had taken a 1-0 lead in the 3 match series after their win in the 1st test at Rawalpindi. The Pakistan team made a host of changes to the side with Azhar Ali , Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah all out due to injuries.
The story as it happened –
Abrar Ahmed made his test debut on Friday, the 24 year old is known to have a few variations up his sleeve. On Friday he made debut special with a 7 wicket haul to bowl out the visiting side for 281.
Ben Stokes left stunned with a terrific ball –
English captain Ben Stokes was batting on 30 off 37 balls and seemed in a mood to dominate the Pakistani attack. Stokes had hit 3 fours and a six in his innings as the English team was trying to negate the early damage done by Abrar Ahmed.
The leg spinner was bowling over the wicket when he pitched the ball in the leg stump line to Stokes. The batter missed the line of the ball and saw the ball hit the top of off stump with a perfect googly. This broke the 61 run stand between Stokes and Jacks as the English captain made his way back to the hut.
Memorable debut and a chance to pick ten denied –
Ahmed began his 1st day in Test Cricket by picking the first 5 wickets to fall before lunch. He first sent back Zak Crawley bowled for 19, then got the big wicket of Ben Duckett for 63. Ahmed then got the wicket of Joe Root LBW for 8, followed by the wicket of Pope for 60 off 61 balls.
The 5th wicket came when he had Harry Brook caught by Nawaz for 9 before getting the wicket of Stokes to make it 6. The 7th wicket was Will Jacks who was out for 31 when he was trapped LBW. Just then it looked as if Ahmed will go on to script history with a ten wicket haul but Zahir Mahmood picked the final 3 wickets to dampen the hopes of anything of such happening.
Twitter reacts –
The wicket of Ben Stokes left the fans as stunned as the English captain as the fans aired their views on Twitter and you can read all the tweets below.
Abrar Ahmad before this series "My target would be to get the wickets of Joe Root and Ben Stokes in my debut test series against England."
— Abdullah Salman (@AbdullahS2004) December 9, 2022
His wish completed 👏🙌#PAKvENG
Ben Stokes face was priceless when deceived by the debutant Abrar who’s taken all six wickets so far in the innings #PAKvENG
— Adam McGrath (@AdamMcGrath89) December 9, 2022