England scored 823 in their first innings, with Joe Root reaching his highest total in Test cricket as "Bazball" reached new heights. All this on a pitch that offered next to nothing for the bowlers in the searing heat of Multan.
Pakistan slumped to 59 for five before finishing the day batting to save the Test on 152 for six, still 115 runs behind. It should have been a fairly straightforward task to bat out the final four sessions on a pitch where batters had dominated from the outset, but for a side in turmoil and off the back of a series defeat to Bangladesh, the hosts did what they have had a tendency to do in the past: collapse.
Brook and Root made history with a partnership of 454, breaking the record for the highest partnership between two Englishmen set by Peter May and Colin Cowdrey against the West Indies in 1957. England’s total was their highest since the Second World War, and the fourth highest in Test cricket.
On day three, Root overtook Sir Alastair Cook to become England’s leading run-scorer in the format, and he added to that with a career-best 262, going past 20,000 runs in all forms of cricket for the national side in the process.
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