England beat Pakistan by an innings 

England have beaten Pakistan by an innings and 47 runs in Multan. 

Spinner Jack Leach grabbed four wickets to help England beat Pakistan in the first Test in Multan on Friday, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

The result was a significant one as it marked England's second innings win in Asia and their first ever since 1976.

For the first few days that looked like an improbable result as the Men in Green won the toss and elected to bat first on a belter of a surface and then the hosts went on to pile 556 runs in the first innings.  However, England came back and how.

The Three Lions scored runs at a rate of over 5 and posted a mammoth 823/7d before declaring their first innings with a lead that proved to be enough for them to register a win by an innings and 47 runs. 

For England, it was Harry Brook who smashed a triple hundred, scoring 317 off 322 balls while Joe Root equalled Sachin Tendulkar's record of scoring the most Test double hundreds with six double centuries to his name. Apart from them Zak Crawley also contributed with a healthy 78 after hundreds from Shan Masood, Salman Agha and Abdullah Shafique got Pakistan to 556 in the first innings.