{"id":768430,"date":"2026-09-12T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768430\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:58:11","slug":"england-vs-pakistan-joe-root-and-jordan-cox-come-through-scare-to-win-third-test-and-3-0-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768430\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Pakistan: Joe Root and Jordan Cox come through scare to win third Test and 3-0 sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day four of five)<\/p>\n

Pakistan 133 (Tongue 4-42) & 449 (Masood 95, Razaullah 81, Babar 76, Awais 59)<\/p>\n

England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148) & 130-2 (Root 62*, Cox 59*)<\/p>\n

England won by eight wickets, won series 3-0<\/p>\n

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

England survived an almighty scare to eventually win the third Test against Pakistan by eight wickets and complete a 3-0 clean sweep.<\/p>\n

The home side were already facing an unexpected chase of 130 on the fourth day after being frazzled by the hitting of Pakistan debutant Razaullah<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

And the prospect of one of Test cricket’s greatest turnarounds was raised when England were reduced to 2-2 in the opening over. Ben Duckett edged Muhammad Abbas’ first ball behind and Emilio Gay was palpably leg before.<\/p>\n

England could have been 35-3 after Joe Root rashly dragged on to his own stumps off Mohammad Ali. Ali was found to have overstepped and Root was reprieved on 23.<\/p>\n

While Root needed fortune, Jordan Cox once again impressed with a composed 59, a further claim for the Essex man to be in the XI for the first Test against South Africa in December.<\/p>\n

Cox and Root shared an unbroken stand of 128, Root unbeaten on 62 when victory was sealed just before lunch.<\/p>\n

For Root, this completes a successful return to the captaincy he resumed when Ben Stokes retired in June, while England end one of their most turbulent summers in history in a positive fashion.<\/p>\n

They switch formats to begin a white-ball series against Sri Lanka in Southampton on Tuesday, with Brendon McCullum back in charge and Kevin Pietersen as part of the coaching staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day four of five) Pakistan 133 (Tongue 4-42) & 449 (Masood 95, Razaullah 81,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-768430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}