1 Pakistan are now the first team to lose a Test match by an innings margin despite scoring 500-plus runs in an innings. The previous highest total to end up in an innings defeat was 492 by Ireland against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2023.
2 Pakistan are only the second team in all first-class cricket to lose by an innings despite a 550-plus total. Leicestershire were the first such team, losing to Glamorgan by an innings and 28 runs despite a first-innings total of 584 in 2022.
3 Instances of England conceding 550-plus in a Test innings since Brendon McCullum became their head coach in May 2022. England won all three Tests, with the previous two in 2022 – the Nottingham Test against New Zealand and the Rawalpindi Test against Pakistan.
Pakistan’s 556 all out in their first innings in Multan is now the joint-fifth highest total to end up in a losing cause in Test cricket. Two of the top four Test totals in defeats also have been by Pakistan.
2 Innings wins for England in Tests in Asia, including this latest win in Multan. The other instance was against India in 1976, when they won by innings and 25 runs in Delhi.
6 Consecutive Test defeats for Pakistan, a streak that began in December last year. It is their joint-longest losing streak in Tests, alongside the six consecutive losses they sustained in 2016-17 and 2018-19.
11 Consecutive Test matches at home for Pakistan since their last win in 2021 against South Africa. It is now Pakistan’s joint-longest streak without a win at home, equaling their 11-match streak without a win between 1969 and 1975.
6 Test matches as captain for Shan Masood – Pakistan have lost all six. Only four other captains have lost six or more consecutive Test matches from their captaincy debut – Khaled Mashud (12), Khaled Mahmud (9), Mohammad Ashraful (8) and Graeme Cremer (6).
2004 Last instance of Pakistan losing a Test by innings margin in Pakistan – against India in Rawalpindi. Pakistan’s last innings defeat at home (in Pakistan or the UAE) came in 2014 against New Zealand in Sharjah.
2.87 Partnership average of Abdullah Shafique and Saim Ayub in Test cricket, the lowest for any opening pair in the format with a minimum of eight innings.
Four of the eight partnerships between Shafique and Ayub have been nought, the most for an opening pair for Pakistan in Test cricket.
41 Babar Azam’s highest score across 17 Test innings since 2023. Babar is the only batter without a score of fifty-plus among the 38 players with 15 or more Test innings while batting in the top six since 2023.
1379 Runs scored by Pakistan and England in their respective first-innings in Multan. It is the third-highest first-innings aggregate for a Test match and the highest to have ended with a result.
The previous highest first-innings aggregate to produce a result was 1236 runs in the 2016 Chennai Test between India and England, and the 2022 Rawalpindi Test between Pakistan and England.
