However, the home team has recovered from the early setback, thanks to efforts from Saim Ayub and debutant Kamran Ghulam with both the batters having already scored respective half-centuries at the time of writing this news.
The two batters have put on over a 100-run stand already in what is a good recovery from the Pakistan batter at a venue which has traditionally favoured the batters.
Kamran Ghulam scored a fine half-century on debut. As his first-class average of over 49 suggests, this is common territory for the 29-year-old who has over 4000 runs in red-ball cricket in 98 innings before his Test debut.
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6 Bowlers Used So Far By England
Meanwhile, England have used 6 bowlers so far but only one of them has tasted success in Leach.
Having said that the left-arm spinner has also bowled the most with Matthew Potts, Brydon Carse, Joe Root and Ben Stokes being sparingly used. Shoaib Bashir is the other bowler who has had the bulk of the overs to bowl in the first innings of the England vs Pakistan second Test in Multan.