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The second test match is being played between Pakistan and England at Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan. Batting first, Pakistan's first innings was reduced to 366 runs. After this, England batted brilliantly and put 203 runs on the scoreboard after losing 2 wickets in 40 overs on the second day. Jack Crawley and Ben Duckett came out to open the innings for England. Noman Ali gave the first blow to England in the 13th over. Ali dismissed Jack Crawley on a personal score of 27 runs. After this, Duckett along with Olly Pope took over the innings and took the score to 125 runs.
England got its second blow in the form of Pope in the 24th over. Holding one end, Duckett then partnered with Joe Root to make a partnership of more than 80 runs for the third wicket. During this, Duckett completed his century with a four in the 39th over. He completed his century in 120 balls. With this century, Duckett made many big records in his name.
Duckett broke the world record
This is the fourth century of Duckett's Test career. Of these, 3 centuries have come on foreign soil. Not only this, Ben Duckett has scored half-centuries 15 times in test matches. Nine of these times have come at a strike-rate of 100 or better, which is the joint-highest for England with Joe Root (who has also scored half-centuries nine times off 50 balls or less).
During this century innings, Ben Duckett also shattered the world record in Test cricket. He completed his 2000 runs in Test cricket as soon as he scored 88 runs. In Test, he made the world record of completing 2000 runs playing the least number of balls. Earlier this record was in the name of Tim Southee who had completed 2000 runs in Test cricket facing 2418 balls. Now this record is in the name of Duckett. The English batsman made this record on 2293 balls.
Fastest to 2000 runs in test matches (in terms of balls)
- 2293 – Ben Duckett
- 2418 – Tim Southee
- 2483 – Adam Gilchrist
- 2759 – Virender Sehwag
- 2797 – Rishabh Pant
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