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Pakistan vs England, 1st Test, Day 2 Highlights: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq Stand Unbeaten As PAK Trail ENG By 476

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  Pakistan Vs England, 1st Test, Day 2 Highlights: Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique put a   solid opening stand for Pakistan, as they ended Day 2 at 181/0, with their side trailing by 476   runs    Pakistan Vs England, 1st Test, Day 2 Highlights: Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique put     a solid opening stand for Pakistan, as they ended Day 2 at 181/0, with their side trailing           England by 476 runs in the ongoing first Test at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Earlier,           England posted a mammoth first innings total of 657 before being bundled out. Harry Brook     scored 153 runs while Zak Crawley scored 122 .  Ben Duckett  (107) and Ollie Pope (108)         had also crossed the three-figure mark.     Pakistan's openers got among the runs on a placid pitch Friday as they took the home team    ...

England became the first side to score 500 runs on day one of a Test

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  England  506 for 4(Crawley 122, Pope 108, Duckett 107, Brook 101*) vs  Pakistan A quartet of centuries helped England plunder a record 506 for 4 on the opening day to put the tourists in command of their first Test appearance in Pakistan for 17 years. Zak Crawley  and  Ben Duckett , who put on a 233-run opening stand, were joined by  Ollie Pope  and  Harry Brook  - the latter playing just his second Test - in posting hundreds on a remarkable day in which England's run rate scarcely dipped below a run a ball as they became the first side to score 500 runs on day one of a Test. No sooner had Brook brought up his maiden Test fifty, and he surged towards his century by whipping Saud Shakeel for six fours in one over to almost all quarters of the ground. Brook reached his ton off just 80 balls after he and Pope had added 176 runs for the fourth wicket and, when bad light ended play, he remained not out on 101 with Ben Stokes unbeaten on 34. Craw...