{"id":863440,"date":"2026-08-21T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863440\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:40:16","slug":"england-vs-pakistan-joe-roots-second-spell-as-captain-begins-with-huge-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863440\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Pakistan: Joe Root’s second spell as captain begins with huge win"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Rothesay Test, Headingley (day three of five)<\/p>\n

Pakistan 171: Shafique 61; Tongue 5-46, Robinson 5-51 & 135: Rizwan 41<\/p>\n

England 409: Brook 91, Cox 73, Root 66; Usman 5-95<\/p>\n

England won by an innings and 103 runs, lead three-match series 1-0<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

England began Joe Root’s second stint as captain with a crushing defeat of a poor Pakistan inside three days at Headingley.<\/p>\n

Root’s side steamrollered the tourists for 135 in their second innings to win the first Test by an innings and 103 runs and take the lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\n

After months of off-field chaos and poor results culminated in the retirement of former captain Ben Stokes and the sacking of Brendon McCullum as Test coach, this was a welcome win for England \u2013 only their third in 11 matches.<\/p>\n

But it is hard to say they have learned a great deal from this week in Leeds, given the dismal showing of the opposition. The Stokes-McCullum Bazballers would also have enjoyed a handsome win.<\/p>\n

After two days, the most pressing question hanging over the contest was whether the visitors could survive until the weekend.<\/p>\n

By lunch on Friday, when Pakistan were already three wickets down, it was clear this Test would not last beyond the start of the new Premier League season.<\/p>\n

England pushed their overnight 366-8 to 409, leaving Pakistan needing 238 to make the hosts bat again. Jofra Archer removed Imam-ul-Haq from the 11th delivery of the innings and the procession was under way.<\/p>\n

Josh Tongue took three wickets in two overs immediately after lunch for match figures of 8-89, while Ollie Robinson ended with a career-best match haul of 8-80.<\/p>\n

England will win the series with victory in the second Test at Lord’s, beginning on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Rothesay Test, Headingley (day three of five) Pakistan 171: Shafique 61; Tongue 5-46, Robinson 5-51 & 135:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-863440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}