India, Sept. 12 -- Pakistan's agonising tour of England came to an end on Saturday, with the visitors losing the third and final Test by eight wickets at Edgbaston in Birmingham, and were thus whitewashed in the three-match series. Nothing went right for the Babar Azam-led side on the tour, which also saw the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) replacing seven players and two coaches after the drubbing at Lord's. Ahead of the final match in Birmingham, Babar himself admitted that he wasn't consulted in sending seven players back, including Mohammad Rizwan and Salman Ali Agha.

The third and final Test, however, saw Pakistan showing some sort of fight, and the final innings saw Pakistan breaching the 200-run mark for the first time in the series,...