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Pakistan and England told second Test will be played on same Multan pitch
- Pakistan omit Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi
- Ben Stokes likely to return for England after injury
In an extraordinary and possibly unprecedented move, England and Pakistan have been told they will play their second Test on exactly the same pitch on which 2,123 balls were bowled and 1,599 runs scored last week – one already pockmarked at both ends with footmarks and deep cracks.
But though the pitch might be the same, the Pakistan team will not. The fallout from another humbling defeat in the first game of the series, the side’s sixth in a row, has seen the Pakistan Cricket Board shake up their selection committee, adding three new members including the former Test umpire Aleem Dar, and then the line-up itself, with Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi the most high-profile casualties.
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