Edgbaston की तीसरी शाम... और scoreboard पर एक ऐसी कहानी लिखी जा चुकी थी, जिसे सुबह तक शायद बहुत कम लोग possible मान रहे थे। Pakistan पहली innings में सिर्फ एक सौ तैंतीस पर सिमट चुका था। England ने चार सौ तिरपन बनाकर match को अपनी मुट्ठी में ले लिया था। लेकिन फिर शुरू हुई दूसरी innings... और साथ शुरू हुआ comeback। Overnight pair Azan Awais और Shan Masood ने पहले pressure को absorb किया। Jofra Archer short-pitched deliveries से सवाल पूछ रहे थे, Gus Atkinson run रोक रहे थे, लेकिन Josh Tongue की bowling में scoring chances मिल रहे थे। धीरे-धीरे दोनों batters ने rhythm पकड़ी, drinks break के आसपास half-centuries पूरी हुईं, और Pakistan की उम्मीद फिर से सांस लेने लगी। तभी Dan Lawrence spin लेकर आए... Awais ने leg side की तरफ ball को glance करना चाहा, faint edge हुआ, umpire ने not out दिया, लेकिन Joe Root का quick review England के लिए breakthrough बन गया। फिर Shan Masood के साथ आए Babar Azam। पूरे series में double-digit score तक नहीं पहुंच पाए Babar... अब pressure के बीच composed दिख रहे थे। Masood और Babar ने eighty-nine run partnership से innings को stability दी। Masood century से सिर्फ पांच run दूर थे, तभी Lawrence ने gully में low one-handed catch लेकर उनका stay खत्म कर दिया। Babar भी control में थे, लेकिन England ने short-ball plan तेज किया। Archer के spell से वह निकल गए, मगर Tongue की leg-side delivery पर वह भी उस trap में फंस गए। कुछ overs बाद Saud Shakeel ने भी short ball को fend करते हुए short leg पर chance दे दिया। Tea के बाद Pakistan सिर्फ तेईस run पीछे था, पांच wickets बाकी थीं... लेकिन England ने तेजी से तीन wickets लेकर picture फिर बदल दी। Saud Shakeel, Ghazi Ghori और Mohammad Imran Randhawa वापस जा चुके थे। अब सिर्फ दो wickets बची थीं। यही वह moment था, जब Razaullah ने match की language बदल दी। Twenty-one year old debutant ने survival नहीं चुना... attack चुना। Gus Atkinson के एक over में तीन sixes... फिर Jofra Archer को long off के ऊपर भेजकर half-century। Razaullah ने सिर्फ sixty-three balls में eighty-one runs बनाए, और नौ sixes लगाए, जो debutant के लिए सबसे ज्यादा बताए गए। दूसरे end पर Mohammad Abbas ने patience और support दिया। दोनों ने ninth wicket के लिए one hundred and twenty-one runs जोड़ दिए। Pakistan, जो कभी deep deficit में था, अब England पर pressure डाल रहा था। Abbas forty-two पर आउट हुए, लेकिन तब तक lead one hundred and nineteen तक पहुंच चुकी थी। Razaullah ने दस और runs जोड़े, फिर Lawrence की bowling पर stumped हुए। Pakistan four hundred and forty-nine पर all out हुआ। First innings के one hundred and thirty-three से second innings के four hundred and forty-nine तक... यह सिर्फ score का jump नहीं था, यह match के mood का reversal था। England को जीत के लिए one hundred and thirty runs का target मिला। Fourth day अब simple chase नहीं रहा; यह pressure, memory और momentum का test बन गया है। Pakistan ने game को वापस जीवित कर दिया है, और Razaullah की fearless hitting ने Edgbaston की कहानी को आखिरी दिन तक खींच दिया है। आप सुन रहे थे Guru News Network, powered by द गुरु ज्ञान... जहां cricket सिर्फ score नहीं, पूरी कहानी बनकर सामने आता है। Latest cricket news, sharp match intelligence और fast live updates के लिए द गुरु ज्ञान और Guru News Network के साथ जुड़े रहिए... क्योंकि जब match पलटता है, असली मजा वही जानता है जो हर twist के साथ जुड़ा रहता है।

At Edgbaston, the third day began with Pakistan carrying the weight of a match that looked heavily tilted toward England. Their first innings had ended at just one hundred and thirty-three. England had replied with four hundred and fifty-three. The gap was enormous, the pressure obvious, and the path back into the contest brutally narrow. Yet by stumps, Pakistan had not merely survived. They had transformed the atmosphere of the Test. The recovery began with Azan Awais and Shan Masood, the overnight pair who resumed with a half-century partnership already behind them. Jofra Archer attacked with short-pitched bowling, Gus Atkinson kept scoring difficult, and Josh Tongue offered the occasional release. There was movement, but not enough to break the pair early. Around the drinks interval, both Awais and Masood reached their half-centuries, giving Pakistan the kind of calm foundation they desperately needed. England's first breakthrough arrived when spin entered the match. Dan Lawrence drifted a delivery down the leg side, Awais tried to glance it, and a faint edge carried through. The original decision was not out, but Joe Root reacted quickly, called for the review, and the decision was overturned. That brought Babar Azam to the middle. Until this innings, Pakistan's captain had failed to reach double figures in the series. This time, he looked measured, patient and increasingly assured. Together, Masood and Babar added eighty-nine runs, rebuilding the innings with senior-player discipline. Masood moved to ninety-five, within touching distance of a century, before Lawrence produced a low one-handed catch at gully to end his stay. Babar continued to look set, but England changed the question. The short ball became the plan. He survived Archer's examination, only to fall to Tongue on a delivery down the leg side. Seven overs later, Saud Shakeel was removed by the same broad tactic, gloving a short ball to short leg while trying to fend it away. Pakistan entered the final session only twenty-three runs behind with five wickets still standing, but the situation tightened sharply. England removed Shakeel, Ghazi Ghori and Mohammad Imran Randhawa before Pakistan had fully escaped the deficit. With only two wickets left, the innings seemed close to collapse again. Then Razaullah arrived as the force that changed the emotional temperature of the match. The twenty-one-year-old debutant did not retreat into survival. He attacked. He launched Gus Atkinson for three sixes in a single over, paused only briefly, then drove the assault forward again. A towering strike off Jofra Archer over long off took him to a half-century. Mohammad Abbas supplied the support at the other end, and as the partnership grew, Razaullah became even freer. The pair added one hundred and twenty-one runs for the ninth wicket. Razaullah finished with eighty-one from sixty-three balls, including nine sixes, the most by a debutant according to the match report. Abbas contributed forty-two before Tongue removed him. By then, Pakistan had turned a position of damage into a lead of one hundred and nineteen. Razaullah added ten more runs before Lawrence stumped him to close the innings at four hundred and forty-nine. That number carried the whole story. Pakistan had gone from one hundred and thirty-three in their first innings to four hundred and forty-nine in their second, their highest total of the series. England were left with a target of one hundred and thirty on the fourth day. On paper, it is not a giant chase. In a Test match shaped by momentum, pressure and sudden reversals, paper rarely gets the final word. Pakistan have forced the contest back to life, and Razaullah's fearless debut has given Edgbaston a finish with genuine tension. You were listening to Guru News Network, powered by The Guru Gyan... where cricket is not reduced to a scorecard, but told as a living story of pressure, courage and turning points. For trusted cricket news, sharp match intelligence and fast live updates, stay connected with The Guru Gyan and Guru News Network... because the best part of cricket is often the moment when the game refuses to follow the script.