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| Pakistan VS. England Second Test Highlights, Multan |
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- Abrar Ahmed's 7 for 114 are the twelfth-best figures in a debut innings by any player. They are the second best by a Pakistani bowling after Mohammad Nazir's 7 for 99 against New Zealand in 1969-70.
- Abrar's debut showed similarities to that of Alf Valentine (West Indies). Valentine, also in the first innings of the Test, took the first eight wickets to fall before Sonny Ramadhin took the last two.
- Based on first innings totals where the side batting first has been bowled out for under 300 but scored at over 4.25 runs per over, England's 281 at 5.43 runs per over is the quickest. The next lowest total but with the quickest scoring rate is 237 (rpo 4.69) by West Indies against Australia at Georgetown, Guyana in 2002-03.
- England's innings saw the 28th occasion of a side being dismissed in the first innings of a Test entirely by the opposition's slow bowlers.
- England suffered the dubious distinction of losing all of their wickets in the manner above in the fewest number of balls (246) to any team's slow bowlers in the first innings of a Test. The next fewest were 258 (India vs. England at Kanpur in 1951-52) and 270 (West Indies vs. Sri Lanka at Galle in 2021-22).
- England's innings saw four players out bowled, the joint-most in an innings at Multan. The other occasion was also by England, in 2005-06. Pakistan's second innings also featured the same number of dismissals making theirs the third instance on the ground.
- Ben Duckett became only the fourth England opener to score half centuries in both innings of a Test in Pakistan. The others are Sir Geoffrey Boycott, Mike Denness and Zak Crawley (in the First Test of the current tour).
- Jack Leach became the 49th bowler to take 100 Test wickets for England. Of this number, he is the 21st slow bowler to perform the feat.
- Harry Brook became the second England player after Marcus Trescothick to score a century at Multan's Cricket Stadium.
- Brook became only the third England player to score two centuries in Pakistan, joining David Gower and Dennis Amiss.
- Abrar's debut match figures of 11 for 234 are the second best for Pakistan, behind only Mohammad Zahid's 11 for 130 against New Zealand at Rawalpindi in 1996-97.
- For the first time since playing England in Faisalabad in 1987-88, no wickets were taken in a Test by a Pakistan pace bowler.
- Babar Azam became the first Pakistani captain to be dismissed in the same manner and to the same bowler in both innings of a Test twice. He fell lbw twice to Keshav Maharaj in the Pakistan vs. South Africa Test in 2020-21 in Karachi.
- Zahid Mahmood and Mohammad Ali became the fourteenth and fifteenth Pakistani players to record pairs against England.
- The Test saw the first occasion of neither side's number 10 making a run.
- The thirteen players dismissed bowled in the Test is the fourth highest in a Test played in Pakistan. The most is 16 between Pakistan and New Zealand in 1964-65 in the only Test played at Rawalpindi's Pindi CC ground.
- Pakistan's second innings 328 is the ninth-highest losing total in a match where the side batting fourth made the match's highest total. The highest is Pakistan's 450 against Australia at Brisbane in 2016-17.
- Pakistan's second innings total is also their highest, fourth innings total without a century. Their previous highest was 315 for 9 against Australia at Karachi's National Stadium in 1994-95.
- Saud Shakeel became only the ninth Pakistani number 4 to score fifties in both innings of the same Test. The previous eight players performed the feat on twenty-one occasions between them.
- England's 26-run victory is the second tightest (by runs) by any country in a Test in Pakistan. The closest (22 runs for Pakistan vs. England in 2005-06) was also in Multan.
- England's series victory is their third in Pakistan, their last being in 2000-01. In total, they have played nine series there.
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