Pakistan and England are locking horns in the second of the three-match Test series at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan. England is batting first on the spin-friendly track of Multan Cricket Stadium. Notably, the hosts are playing without some big names including the likes of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, and Haris Rauf.
Meanwhile, the young leg spinner Abrar Ahmed has a call to play his debut Test for the national team Pakistan. The 24-year-old has stunned everyone with his amazing bowling in the first-ever Test match of his international cricketing career.
Putting the England batting line up on the knees, Abrar has scalped five wickets in the first session and claimed his first five-wicket in his debut match only. The cricket fans and the entire cricketing fraternity are currently in full awe of the young spinner who has displayed brilliant bowling heroics against mighty England. They took to Twitter to hail Abrarβs astonishing start of his Test career.
Hereβs how fans reacted to Abrar Ahmedβs brilliant bowling performance against England in the second Test:
Abrar Ahmed, the magician πͺ#PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/UMoGhUDAU4
β Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed is a revelation. Bowled with great skill and perhaps more crucially...bravery this morning. England's attack has been relentless...but so has his. Three wickets so far. Just brilliant. You'd get short odds of him being the next man on this list. #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/yqrkipZayl
β Aatif Nawaz (@AatifNawaz) December 9, 2022
Heβs the official father of Bazball.. took whole Bazball thing down all by himself
β KaanpeTaangRahiHa (@ha_taang) December 9, 2022
Kahan chhipa kar rakha tha is bhai ko?#AbrarAhmed #PAKvsENG pic.twitter.com/kJGXvd5lDW
β Avinash Aryan (@AvinashArya09) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed picks up a 5-wicket haul on DEBUT against England. ππ»π₯
β Saif Ahmed (@saifahmed75) December 9, 2022
He will play for Comilla Victorians this season in BPL. What a signing! pic.twitter.com/Ps3O1oIX5H
Even in his wildest dreams, Abrar Ahmed wouldn't have been able to write a script half as good as his reality πͺ #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/S9y0Sr82iy
β Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) December 9, 2022
What a debut so far for Abrar Ahmed. pic.twitter.com/PM3vWcPV8Z
β Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed's fifth wicket, before lunch, on Test debut.
β Wisden (@WisdenCricket) December 9, 2022
The stuff dreams are made of.#PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/zrqMHpudNA
This is called selection. Welcome to Test cricket, Abrar Ahmed pic.twitter.com/YgjNcd217D
β π΅π° Muhammad Noor π΅π° (@Noor_Marriii) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed on Test Debut vs ENG
β Sivy Kanefied (@Sivy_KW578) December 9, 2022
Overs: 13
Runs Given: 70
Wickets: 5β£
ER: 5.38
Maiden 5 wicket haul in his first session of Test cricket, that's a dream start to a Test career - well bowled π pic.twitter.com/kv58GWgjvx
Abrar Ahmed what a start of his debut Masha Allah pic.twitter.com/h6pOpKBxfn
β Urooj Tiwana (@tiwana_urooj) December 9, 2022
Oh Abrar Ahmed,
β Azan Ahmad (@azanahmad257) December 9, 2022
Where have you been?#PAKvENG | #PAKvsENG pic.twitter.com/uFtcNpjcfm
"Who's next?" - Abrar Ahmed.#PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/Uocbxy2Ysi
β Cricket.Social (@_cricketsocial) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed Today: pic.twitter.com/5WqD6Jvdmk
β Ψ§Ψ±Ω π΅π° (@Iraamnsss) December 9, 2022
Abrar Ahmed, May you rise and shine like this always.β€οΈ #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/967leU8ZVN
β AhMadπ΅π° (@AhMad__5852) December 9, 2022
Speaking of the ongoing second Test between Pakistan and England so far, the visitors are currently playing on the score of 180 runs for the loss of five wickets in the 33 overs after lunch. Opening batter Ben Duckett played a knock of 63 runs followed by a 60-run individual inning from wicketkeeper-batter Ollie Pope.
Skipper Ben Stokes and number seven batter Will Jacks were sojourning there in the middle at the time of Lunch.
Debutant Abrar has scalped all five wickets of England so far. He has bagged the entire top-order of England including the likes of former skipper Joe Root, openers, Zak Crawley, and Ben Duckett alongside Ollie Pope and Harry Brook.
Notably, the three lions are currently leading the three-match Test series by a margin of 1-0 with a win of 74 runs in the first Test played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi.