KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Struggling Pakistan captain Shan Masood feels the test team has an opportunity to capitalize on home advantage against strong England and end its long drought of 10 winless home matches.

England, led by Ben Stokes, will arrive on Wednesday for back-to-back test matches at Multan, starting next week. Rawalpindi will host the third test from Oct. 24-28.

“We all have a huge opportunity to turn this around against England and hopefully we can take a good start in Multan,” Masood told reporters in southern port city of Karachi on Monday. “We’re all very excited and hope we get memorable results against England.”

Pakistan’s long winless home streak includes a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of England when it last toured to the country in 2022.

Masood’s performances – both as a top-order batter and captain – are also under the scanner after suffering five successive losses since being elevated to test skipper last year.

Under his captaincy, Pakistan lost 3-0 in Australia and last month suffered a shocking 2-0 defeat against Bangladesh at home. Pakistan’s last home test win came against South Africa in early 2021. Since then it has lost to England, Australia and Bangladesh, while drawing against New Zealand.

“It’s not acceptable for Pakistan to not win a home test for that long and we accept the responsibility for that,” Masood said.