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The second Test match is being played between Pakistan and England at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan. Batting first, Pakistan’s first innings was reduced to 366 runs. After this, England batted brilliantly and scored 203 runs on the scoreboard by losing 2 wickets in 40 overs on the second day. Jack Crowley and Ben Duckett came out to open the innings for England. Noman Ali gave the first blow to England in the 13th over. Ali dismissed Jack Crowley on a personal score of 27 runs. After this, Duckett along with Ollie Pope took charge of the innings and took the score to 125 runs.
England got another blow in the form of Pope in the 24th over. Holding one end, Duckett again shared a partnership of more than 80 runs for the third wicket with Joe Root. During this, Duckett completed his century with a four in the 39th over. He completed his century in 120 balls. With this century, Duckett made many big records in his name.
Duckett broke the world record.
This is the fourth century of Duckett’s Test career. Out of these, 3 centuries have come on foreign soil. Not only this, Ben Duckett has scored 15 half-centuries in Test matches. Nine of these have come at a strike rate of 100 or better, which is the joint highest for England along with Joe Root (who has also scored 9 half-centuries in 50 balls or less).
During this century innings, Ben Duckett also broke the world record in Test cricket. He completed his 2000 runs in Test cricket by scoring 88 runs. He made the world record of completing 2000 runs in Test cricket by playing the least number of balls. Earlier this record was in the name of Tim Southee who completed 2000 runs in Test cricket by facing 2418 balls. Now this record is in the name of Duckett. The English batsman made this record on 2293 balls.
Fastest to 2000 runs in Test matches (in terms of balls)
- 2293 – Ben Duckett
- 2418 – Tim Southee
- 2483 – Adam Gilchrist
- 2759 – Virender Sehwag
- 2797 – Rishabh Pant
