Greeting to all hope, hope you all are well and good and enjoying happy moments of life. I am also good Alhamdullillah. My best wishes and prayers are always with you. Today's report is about the match between Pakistan And England's last test match in Karachi. England Wins The Match.

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England 354 (Brook 111, Foakes 64, Pope 51, Nauman 4-126, Abrar 4-150) and 170 for 2 (Duckett 82*) beat Pakistan 304 (Babar 78, Salman 56, Leach 4-140) and 216 (Babar 54, Shakeel 53, Rehan 5-48) by eight wickets

England needed 38 minutes to complete a resounding eight-wicket win on the fourth morning in Karachi, eventually gunning down their last-innings target of 167 in 28.1 overs. Ben Duckett slapped Mohammad Wasim for the winning boundary to seal a 3-0 series victory, the first time Pakistan have been whitewashed in a series that took place on home soil.

With 55 more runs needed after a chaotic attempt to seal the third Test inside three days, England were slightly more restrained on the fourth morning but still took only 11.1 overs to clinch the clean sweep. Duckett finished 82 not out, becoming the second-highest run-scorer in the series in the process, with captain Ben Stokes unbeaten on 35 at the other end.

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This was England's ninth win in 10 Tests since Stokes and Brendon McCullum took over as captain and coach respectively, a remarkable turnaround after a run of one win in 17 before their appointments. They have obliterated an under-strength Pakistan in their first Test series in the country since 2005, who now face a short turnaround before they play New Zealand on Boxing Day.

Asked at the presentation for his verdict on the series, Stokes simply said: "Perfect." He later added: "We've adapted really well, whether that be with bat or ball. The confidence that every individual has in themselves and the people around them is unbelievable. Every person has stood up at some point and put in some kind of match-winning performance.

"We knew what cricket means to Pakistan and we knew what it meant to Pakistan for us to be here. The support that we've had has been incredible. We felt like the cricket that was played was just being celebrated. We came here to win but we also came to play an exciting brand of cricket and get people in to watch. To walk off to a reception like we have at every ground, being the winners over the home team, was very special."

England cruised to victory on the final day of the series, in front of another sparse crowd at the National Stadium. Stokes set the tone, muscling the third ball he faced through midwicket, while Duckett continued to sweep, reverse-sweep and paddle-sweep liberally off Abrar Ahmed as he extended his form in a hugely impressive comeback series.

Stokes' attention soon turned to the opportunity to pull clear of McCullum as the outright leading six-hitter in Test history, and he was dropped by Salman Ali Agha at wide long-on as he looked to hit the 108th six of his Test career. He tried twice more, slog-sweeping into the deep on the leg side and chipping Abrar down the ground, but was unsuccessful - throwing his head back and looking to the dressing room with a wry smile.

That left Duckett to back-cut Wasim through point with the scores level, raising his arms aloft as the ball ran away to the boundary rope for four. England had only ever won two Tests in Pakistan before this tour, but now clinched a third consecutive win on their return after a lengthy absence.

Azhar Ali, commemorative stump in hand, was applauded off the field with a tear in his eye after the final appearance of his long and distinguished international career for Pakistan. He retires from Test cricket with 7097 runs at 42.49, including 19 hundreds, from his 97 caps.

Harry Brook, the leading run-scorer on the tour with 468 in five innings, was named Player of the Series after hitting three hundreds in his second, third and fourth appearances as a Test cricketer. "He's set Pakistan on fire," Stokes said.

The third Test turned on the third afternoon when Stokes belatedly introduced Rehan Ahmed, England's 18-year-old debut, to the attack, who promptly ripped through Pakistan's middle and lower order. He took 5 for 48, becoming the youngest man in Test history to take a five-wicket haul on debut, and set up a routine chase.

With Stuart Broad on paternity leave and James Anderson rested, this was England's first win with neither bowler in the side for 15 years. The most recent such win came in June 2007, when Michael Vaughan captained them to victory against West Indies.

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11.09am And with that, Stokes accepts the series trophy, and wanders off to celebrate with his team, behind a placard declaring them "Winners", which is about the measure of it.

It's been a remarkable tour. England have won three Tests in a month, having won just two of their previous 24 Tests in Pakistan since 1961. It's nine out of ten since the Stokes-McCullum era began, and it's New Zealand next in the New Year.

For the meantime, that's all from us. Thanks for joining us, and Merry Christmas all. From Miller, Alan, Matt, Chandan and the team, see you next time!

Arish: "The thing that stands out to me the most on the batting chart is the strike rates. England were playing one day cricket out there. Bazball will sooner or later have an off day, but it's tough to not admire the fearlessness they play with, the envy of every test team around the world"

JOYDEEP GILL: "Fun fact England score in T20I semi final was 170/0 vs India and in this match 170/2 reminded me of T20I cricket "

Vijay: "For the first time, except Ben Foakes, all other England players including bowlers have batting strike rate more than 80 in the series.. Amazing !"

Presentation time.

Harry Brook is both Player of the Match and Player of the Series. Not a bad month's work: "Probably my best tour so far, to win 3-0 here, no-one's done it before, phenomenal from the lads. I was annoyed with myself in the second Test when I got out to Abrar. Had to look myself in the mirror."

Babar Azam: "Definitely disappointment as a team, we are not good enough to fight back. First innings, we lost back to back wickets, good in batches, but that moment cost us. Bowling, definitely, your best pacer is not fit so that cost us. A lot of positive things in this series, but also things that we lack."

Ben Stokes: "Perfect. We've got a process we want to play but the challenge was the different pitches for every Test. We stuck to our gameplans and adapted really well. Particularly with the ball, whoever I threw it to they seemed to deliver. The commitment and mindset has been top drawer. It comes down to belief, that I have and the ten other guys. That resonates around everyone, the confidence everyone has gives me so much confidence in myself too. Every person has stood up at some point, but Harry Brook has been unbelievable for us. He's set Pakistan on fire, the calmness and belief is high class. And Rehan, 18 years old, the belief he's got in himself... he's not the finished article but to affect the game as he has done ...

"We knew what cricket means to Pakistan... we felt like the cricket that was being played was being celebrated. To walk off to a reception at every ground was very special."

Duckett is speaking to Sky: "Fitting Stokes was there at the end, he wanted to hit a six to go past Baz, he wanted it bad. Me and Zak tried to be positive, his first-ball four set the tone and we got off to a flyer. Very happy, lots of spin, I tried to stick to my game, if I was over-critical I left some runs out there. Abrar is a good bowler but we probably gifted him a few wickets in his first innings. The mindset of this team, it's easy to come into. I've not played in a team like this, is not about losing, all the pressure comes off you."

Ravi: "It's no mean feat to whitewash a series defeating the host in sub-continent. Full Credit to England….Thry changed the way test cricket looks."

10.44am We'll be ready with the presentations shortly. Meanwhile, Ben Stokes is just the seventh Test captain to win nine or more matches in a calendar year. And I doubt many managed it in his first year in charge.

Duckett has also snuck into second place in the series run-scoring charts. Due reward for his quietly impressive campaign.

Saad: "England also got white washed in Ashes series with 5-0. But after that they challenged themselves and changed things drastically. Pakistan must do same."

A A Musabbir: "I was little bit tensed that it seems to finish game where the run rate of England remains below six at the last moment. but last ball four ensures the run rate of this chase above six. well done England." Gosh, so it did

10.38am Handshakes and back slaps all round... Stokes strolls off with a look of deep contentment, chatting to Babar as he plucks a stump as a souvenir. It's England's second victory in Karachi in as many visits, across 22 years, and Pakistan's first 3-0 whitewash on home soil. And Azhar Ali is out there taking the plaudits as he leaves the field for the final time as an international cricketer. Not the way he'd have wanted to bow out, but a mighty 11 year career, 97 Tests and more than 7000 runs.

The rest of the England dressing room is on the outfield now, shaking hands with their beaten opponents, it's a very chilled scene on a morning that never really had much riding on it, but is no less significant for that.

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Pakistan's worst streak at home, and a rare defeat in Karachi

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3 - Test defeats for Pakistan at the National Stadium in Karachi. Their previous two came against England in 2000 and South Africa in 2007. Pakistan have won 23 of the 45 Tests they have played at the National Stadium, while 19 ended in draws. They lost only 6.67% of the Test matches in Karachi, the lowest for any team at a venue where they played 20 or more Tests.

1 - It's the first instance of Pakistan getting whitewashed at home in a Test series of three or more matches. It is only the ninth instance of a visiting side completing a whitewash in a series of three or more Tests). The previous clean sweep by the visitors was also by England, when they defeated Sri Lanka 3-0 in 2018.

4 - Consecutive Test defeats for Pakistan at home - the first instance of them losing four successive Tests at home. Only once Pakistan have lost three home Tests on the trot - between 1956 and 1959.

18y 126d - Rehan Ahmed's age on debut, the youngest to play in a men's Test for England. Rehan became the youngest player to claim a five-wicket haul on Test debut with the five wickets in the second innings. Pat Cummins was the previous youngest when he was 18 years and 193 days old, against South Africa in 2011, where he claimed a six-wicket haul.
16 - Wickets for England spinners in the Karachi Test, the joint-most for a visiting team in a Test in Pakistan. England spinners also had 16 wickets against Pakistan in the Dhaka Test in 1962 (Dhaka was part of Pakistan then).

9 - Test wins as captain for Ben Stokes in 2022. Only seven other captains have won nine or more in a calendar year before him. Among England captains, only Michael Vaughan (10 wins in 2004) won as many or more Tests in a year than Stokes. (Tests count in the year they began)
3 - Centuries for Harry Brook in all three matches of this series. He is only the second batter to score hundreds in each game of an away series of three or more Tests. Daryl Mitchell became the first when he scored a hundred in all three matches of the England tour earlier this year.

Brook is only the second England batter to score a hundred in every game of a series of three or more Tests, after Ken Barrington against Pakistan in 1967.

5.50 - England's run rate in the series against Pakistan. No other team has had a run rate of five or more in a Test series of three or more matches. The previous highest was 4.66 by Australia in the three-match home series against West Indies in 2015-16.

'When you take a chance with youth, it takes time' - Babar feels lack of experience hurt Pakistan

"With new players, it's different because when the opposition attacks them, it places a sharper kind of pressure on them"
Inexperience. That was the word Babar Azam kept returning to. In the wake of Pakistan's fourth successive home Test defeat, and a 3-0 home series defeat - both unprecedented.

"There have been several debutants this series," Babar said. "You need experience in Test cricket, and our experienced players were either unfit or not in form. Our team was young, with Azhar Ali the only experienced player. When you take a chance with youth, it takes time. You can't change everything in a day or a week.

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"I'll try and back the new boys we have, give it a bit of time before we see where we stand. Saud [Shakeel], Agha [Salman], Abrar [Ahmed], [Mohammad] Wasim Jnr have come in, while Faheem [Ashraf] is in and out, and Shan [Masood] has just made a comeback. It's a new team, so the greater chance you give them and the more you build this side, the team will improve. But you'd have to play them consistently."

Pakistan handed out six Test debuts - Haris Rauf, Mohammad Ali, Shakeel and Zahid Mahmood in the first Test, Abrar in the second, and Wasim in the last one - this series. And there was a significant gap in the experience between the conquering visitors and the vanquished hosts. For Pakistan, the players who took part this series had played a combined 254 Test matches before it began; for England, that number was 531. Just James Anderson and Joe Root together have played more Test matches than the Pakistan side put together.

"There have been difficult times this series," Babar said. "With new players, it's different because when the opposition attacks them, it places a sharper kind of pressure on them. It takes time to get used to that. We'll try and look after our quicks better because there are back-to-back series and the [ODI] World Cup is coming up, so we'll have to plan with a view to that."
There were moments - albeit fleeting - when Pakistan were in respectable, if not commanding, positions this series. In each of the first two Tests, Pakistan found themselves needing 85 runs or fewer to win with half their wickets intact. But, in a theme England exploited effectively all series, there were batting collapses, and the opportunities went up in smoke. It's an extension of a problem that has beleaguered Pakistan all year. Just this series alone, Pakistan lost their last five wickets in their final innings for 9 and 38 runs in Rawalpindi and in Multan, respectively, and their last seven for 52 in Karachi.

"It's disappointing as a captain that we didn't apply ourselves," Babar said. "The way England played needs to be appreciated. When things were in our hands, there were soft dismissals, and we couldn't win these matches. Our strength was our batting because our bowling was under-strength. We tried to dominate with our batting, and we played well in patches, but we couldn't quite finish it off.

"It was the same pitch for both teams. We can tell the curator we need a particular type of pitch. We dominated in Multan, when Abrar got 11 wickets. So there was an advantage, but we lacked in the batting. There were patches when we put England on the back foot but we kept losing wickets and that builds up pressure. It's something we need to work on."

Injuries to three frontline Pakistan fast bowlers hampered them big time. Shaheen Afridi was ruled out before the start of the series, while Naseem Shah and Rauf played the first Test, only to be ruled out for the next two. The Pakistan management is understood to be less than convinced about Hasan Ali and Mohammad Abbas' fitness for five-day cricket, which is why they were not considered despite Pakistan fielding an attack in which every other fast bowler made their debuts this series.
"We were unfortunate that our fast bowlers weren't fit," Babar said. "When new fast bowlers come in, it's difficult, especially when England play the way they do because they don't let Pakistan settle. You need the kind of bowlers who get you 20 wickets. If you don't, you won't win. There's so much back-to-back cricket, you have to be ready all the time. Fitness becomes ultra-important, because if you aren't perfectly fit you won't be able to play all three [Tests]. These days you only get two or three days to switch formats and you have to be mentally ready too. A lot of things happened together at the same time."

Babar's captaincy has come under increasing scrutiny this series, particularly around the management of his bowling resources during games. However, it hasn't hindered his own form with the bat. Over the three Tests, he was the highest run-scorer for Pakistan, with 348; no Pakistan batter bettered either his average (58) or his strike rate of 68.91. He scored a hundred and three half-centuries, though in a batting line-up where just about everyone else struggles for form, Pakistan would have benefitted from a superior conversion rate. It illustrates, perhaps, how deeply Pakistan rely on their captain's batting, and the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of a man who captains his side in all three formats.

"I enjoy the pressure, it doesn't affect my batting," he said. "It's an honour to captain Pakistan, and I give my best for myself and for my country. That's my motive and aim. The team lost, and I'll be the one to front up and take responsibility. It's not about the way you play, it's about results. If you don't get results you'll get criticised no matter what.

"A defeat like this hurts. We had one or two matches under our control, but we lost them. If we'd won those, this would be a different scenario. As a professional, you'll have to accept these things. But you have to credit England the way they have dominated, and the different way they have played their cricket. There were lots of positives, too, which we'll try to continue. We'll need to assess where we lacked, and do the best for the team."

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