Former player Nasir Hussain has praised the performance of the England team on the first day of the first Test against Pakistan being played in Multan. Let us tell you that the first test between Pakistan and England has started at Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan. On the first day of the game, Pakistan’s batsmen performed well and put pressure on England.

By the end of the first day of play, Pakistan scored 328 runs in its first innings, losing four wickets. On behalf of the team, captain Shan Masood scored 151 runs with the help of 13 fours and 2 sixes while Abdullah Shafiq played an inning of 102 runs. Both of them did not spare any bowler of England and hit hard against all of them. The host’s first wicket fell soon, after which these two players made a valuable partnership of 253 runs for the second wicket.

However, despite this, Nasir Hussain has praised the England team a lot. Nasir Hussain said on Sky Sports after the end of the first day’s play, ‘Looking at the score of four wickets for 328 runs, everyone must be feeling that we have lagged behind in this match. However it is not so. England has performed tremendously. This is the difference between playing at home and outside.

If you had this score in England, you could have said that your team is away from the game but in Pakistan we are still in the competition and the players should be given credit for this.

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The former player further said, ‘We were talking about body language, fitness, speed and comeback with the new ball and all the players of the team performed tremendously. Everyone feels that Pakistan team is far ahead in this match but we should not criticize Ollie Pope and the bowlers. He performed as per the work given to him.

For England, so far Chris Woakes has taken 1 wicket while Gus Atkinson has taken 2 wickets. The second day of the game is going to be very important for both the teams.