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-Vinay Kumar
Ben Stokes’s team England defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets in the third and final Test match of the 3-match Test series in their tour of Pakistan and cleared Pakistan in the series. By winning the third consecutive Test match, England captain Ben Stokes equaled the record of former India skipper Virat Kohli.
On Tuesday, 20 December, in the final match of the Test series, England defeated Pakistan at Karachi ground to become the seventh captain in the world to win 9 Test matches in a calendar year. This year, he has won 9 Test matches for England as captain and has faced defeat in one.
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The history of international Test cricket tells that Virat Kohli, the former skipper of the Indian team, won 9 matches in a calendar year as Test captain in the year 2016 and did not face defeat in any match. Apart from Virat Kohli and Ben Stokes, this record is also recorded in the names of former captain Graeme Smith, Ricky Ponting, Michael Vaughan, Steve Waugh and Clive Lloyd. . They have also won 9 test matches in a calendar year.
Significantly, under the captaincy of Ben Stokes, for the first time since 2010, England have won 9 or more Test matches in a calendar year. Apart from this, for the first time in Pakistan’s Test series on Pakistan’s soil, England has cleaned the table.
In the third Test match of this series played in Karachi, England’s young batsman Harry Brook scored a century of 111 runs. 18-year-old young spinner Rehan Ahmed, playing debut Test match, took 5 wickets and made a new world record. Harry Brook was the ‘Player of the Series’.
