PLAYER RATINGS: Abrar Ahmed stars on debut before Mark Wood spell wins it for England

The Cricketer rates the individual performances of every player during the second Test between Pakistan and England

PAKISTAN

Abdullah Shafique (14 & 45): Starts in both innings ended by super deliveries from Leach and Wood; fine catch to dismiss Root at short leg 5

Imam ul-Haq (0 & 60): Edged Anderson behind without scoring on day one, when there was a touch of pace in the pitch; defied an apparent hamstring injury to play superbly in the second innings 6

Babar Azam (75 & 1): Bowled twice by Robinson in-nippers – the first through a big drive, the second a he looked  to leave; captained more  proactively than in Rawalpindi 6

Saud Shakeel (63 & 94): Played beautifully in both innings, with a patience that suggests he will have a fine Test career; briefly lost his head in the first innings by chipping to mid-on when well set but made up for that with a tremendous hand in the run-chase that was only ended in controversial circumstances, when his glove down the legside was adjudged to have carried to Pope 8.5

Mohammad Rizwan (10 & 30): No rhythm to his first-innings knock, which took an age to get going; like Shafique, undone by fabulous bowling in both innings – bowled by a big turner from Leach in the first, the victim of an Anderson jaffa in the second after being thrown in as an emergency opener 5

Agha Salman (4 & 20* 0-5): Ran out of partners as he tried in vain to marshal a weak tail 4

^{Harry Brook made a sublime second-innings century for England (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)}

Mohammad Nawaz (1 & 45; 0-46 & 1-42): A clever addition by Pakistan, giving Babar more control with the ball and offering a useful contribution in the second innings with the bat 6

Faheem Ashraf (22 & 10; 0-16 & 0-12): Nothing in the pitch for a supporting seamer of his kind; made starts with the bat in both innings and shortened Pakistan's tail 4

Mohammad Ali (0 & 0; 0-29 & 0-44): Ineffective in both innings with the ball as Pakistan took 20 wickets with spin 3

Zahid Mahmood (0 & 0; 3-63 & 3-52): Continues to take wickets in this series, even as England continue to take him on; cleaned up the visitors' tail on both occasions 6

Abrar Ahmed (7* & 17; 7-114 & 4-120): The debut of his dreams, bamboozling England in both innings to end with 11 wickets in the match; at one stage, he had all seven to have fallen in the first innings and was on for all 10 - surely the start of an exciting career; played his own version of Bazball in a chaotic cameo at the end 9

^{Abrar Ahmed took 11 wickets on Test debut (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)}

ENGLAND

Ben Duckett (63 & 79): Gave England a terrific start in both innings, on each occasion helping to rebuild amid early wickets; out to Abrar both times and will think he should have converted at least one into a hundred 7

Zak Crawley (19 & 3): Undone by a fine googly from Abrar on the first morning that set the tone for all that followed; ran himself out in the second innings 3

Ollie Pope (60 & 4): Enterprising half century in the first session of the match, featuring plenty of reverse-sweeping; dropped down the order in the second innings to allow him the chance to recover after keeping wicket but ran himself out when he eventually arrived; jury is out on whether giving him the gloves is the best idea 6

Joe Root (8 & 21; 2-23 & 1-65): Trapped by a beauty from Abrar in the first innings, brilliantly caught at short leg in the second; more than useful with the ball as England's second spinner 5

Harry Brook (9 & 108): Fabulous second-innings century, featuring all of Brook's best features, particularly an ability to pick up length off the spinner and pull him over the legside 8.5

Ben Stokes (30 & 41): Contrasting dismissals – beaten by a beautiful googly on day one, caught on the square-leg rope slog-sweeping on day three; didn't bowl as he manages his knee 5

^{James Anderson bowled the ball of the game to dismiss Mohammad Rizwan (Matthew Lewis/Getty Images)}

Will Jacks (31 & 4; 0-18 & 0-15): The likeliest man to drop out for Foakes, used sparingly with the ball and lacked control when he did bowl; out slog-sweeping in both innings, the second of which coming at No.3 as he filled in for Pope 4

Ollie Robinson (5 & 3; 1-2 & 2-23): Perhaps underbowled but put on an exhibition when he did, too good for Babar in both innings, which is no mean feat 7.5

Mark Wood (36* & 6; 2-40 & 4-65): Bowled with a typically enormous heart and changed the game in the final throes of the fourth morning, dismissing Nawaz and Shakeel - the difference-maker for England on a flat pitch 8.5

Jack Leach (0 & 0*; 4-98 & 1-113): Took his hundredth Test wicket in the first innings but struggled in the second as the surface flattened out and Pakistan stacked their middle order with left-handers 6

James Anderson (7 & 4; 1-16 & 2-44): A world-class performance from the old-stager on a pitch that his skillset really shouldn't have found much support from; bowled one of the finest deliveries of his career to dismiss Rizwan 7.5

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