Shoaib Malik double ton lifts Pak to 523-8: 1st Test, Day 2 (Abu Dhabi)

Openers Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali took England to 56-0 after Shoaib Malik’s double century lifted Pakistan to a mammoth total.

Malik hit an epic 245, his best score in Test cricket.  Asad Shafiq (107) added 248 runs with Malik — a new record in Pakistan-England Tests. 

England 56 for 0 (Cook 39*, Moeen 15*) trail Pakistan 523 for 8 dec (Shoaib 245, Shafiq 107, Stokes 4-57) by 467 runs.

Oct 2015