The first day in the Pakistani dirt was always going to be brutal for England, and it didn’t help that their bowling guru was playing golf at St Andrews, nor that they had so little time to prepare for a Test in such gruelling conditions.
England’s bowlers - inexperienced in Pakistan and Asian conditions - toiled in difficult conditions, taking just one wicket in the first two sessions.
Jimmy Anderson was golfing at St Andrews while the England Test team prepared for the first Test in Pakistan.Meanwhile, the bowling group he now mentors conceded 328 runs and took just four wickets in 36-degree heat as Pakistani captain Shan Masood registered his first Test century in four years. “We will take what we can get when we can get it,” he said, adding that there would be less noise around the situation if Anderson had been relaxing with his family, rather than relaxing on the golf course.Test cricket in Pakistan is a slow-burn and games, let alone series, are not often won or lost on the opening day. Victory can be secured after the opposition racks up massive scores.
The schedule here was already stacked against England leading into this series. Eight days earlier, four members of the XI , plus two more members of the touring party, were playing Australia in a one-day international in blustery Bristol, where temperatures were more than 20 degrees lower than Multan.
There has been a total turnover of the pace attack that brought England so much success here in Pakistan in 2022, when they won 3-0.Debutant England bowler Brydon Carse reacts after being denied the wicket of Pakistan captain Shan Masood on day one of the first Test in Multan.Anderson’s only two Tests in Pakistan came on that 2022 tour, when he took eight wickets at an average of 18.5 and, crucially, an economy rate of 2.2 per over.
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