At lunch on the second day (Friday) of the third Test match between Shan Masood’s team and England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Pakistan had scored 187/7 in 62 overs.

Play will resume after a half-hour break, with Saud Shakeel on 72 runs and Noman Ali at the crease with 6 runs.

The day began with Pakistan at 73-3 after 23 overs, with skipper Masood (16) and Saud Shakeel (16) batting.

It’s important to note that Shan Masood and his team need 80 more runs to match England’s first-innings total of 267, which was led by Ben Stokes.

Playing XI

PAKISTAN: Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (captain), Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan and Zahid Mehmood

ENGLAND: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (captain), Jamie Smith (wk), Gus Atkinson, Rehan Ahmad, Jack Leach and Shoaib Bashir.

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