Rawalpindi: Thanks to the responsible batting of Saim Ayub and Saud Shakeel, Pakistan scored 158 runs for the loss of 4 wickets on the first day of the rain-affected first Test match against Bangladesh. The first Test match between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Rawalpindi was delayed due to a wet outfield. The match was scheduled to start at 10 am, but early morning rainfall of up to 10 mm was recorded in and around the stadium due to which the ground became wet, the match officials inspected the ground and the toss was delayed due to wet outfield. Later, after inspection by the officials, there was a toss which Bangladesh decided to field first after winning toss. The first day’s play started at 2:30 PM, while due to time loss, it was decided to play only 48 overs instead of 90 on the first day. At the start of the game, the visiting team got their first success when Abdullah Shafiq got out by scoring 2 runs. After him, captain Shan Masood also returned to the pavilion after scoring only 6 runs, while Babar Azam got out without making any runs. By losing 16 runs three wickets, the Pakistani team was in dire straits and at this stage Saud Shakeel came to support young Saim Ayub and both of them started batting. Both players played a responsible game and put on a 98-run partnership for the fourth wicket, while Saim also completed the first half-century of his Test career. Bangladesh got their fourth win when Saim’s knock of 56 after the water break was ended by Hasan Mehmood. Saud Shakeel was then joined by Mohammad Rizwan and the duo took the score to 158 without further loss by the end of the day. When it was decided to end the game prematurely due to bad light, Pakistan had scored 158 runs for the loss of 4 wickets, Saud Shakeel 57 and Mohammad Rizwan 24 runs at the wicket. Hasan Mehmood and Shariful Islam took two wickets each for Bangladesh. It should be noted that Pakistan is currently ranked sixth in the ICC World Test Championship, it has played two series in the championship, it won by 2 nil against Sri Lanka and against Australia by 3-0. Defeat was faced. Pakistan will play 9 Test matches in this season which is their busiest Test season since 1998-99, 7 of them will be played in Pakistan including two against Bangladesh in October, three against England and next. That includes two against the West Indies in January of the year. Saud Shakeel, the vice-captain of the national Test team, completed 1000 runs in his 20th innings against Bangladesh, thus equaling the national record for the fastest 1000 runs. Earlier, Saeed Ahmed also scored one in 20 innings. Apart from this, Sadiq Mehmood 22, Javed Miandad 23, Tawfiq Umar, Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafiq accomplished this feat in 24 innings. Earlier, Saud Shakeel scored the most runs in the first 11 innings of the Test. He also broke the record, who added 720 runs in the first 11 innings, breaking Javed Miandad’s record of 645 runs.
Saud Shakeel scored 738 runs in the first 11 innings, he is also the batsman who scored the most runs in the first 6 Tests after Sunil Gavaskar and Don Bradman. He was given the vice-captaincy in his 11th Test match before the series against. Saud Shakeel also broke Abdullah Shafiq’s record of scoring the most runs in the first 11 innings of a Test, breaking Javed Miandad’s record of 645 runs and adding 720 runs in the first 11 innings.
Saud Shakeel scored 738 runs in the first 11 innings, he is also the highest run-scorer in the first 6 Tests after Sunil Gavaskar and Don Bradman.
Saud Shakeel scored more than 50 runs in the first 6 Test matches, which is a unique record. In the nearly 150-year history of Test cricket, there were only four batsmen before Saud Shakeel who scored more than 50 runs in their first six Test matches. Among the batsmen who made a must-see half-century are Sunil Gavaskar, Basil Boucher, Saeed Ahmed and Burt Sutcliffe.
Also, Saud Shakeel is the second Pakistani batsman to score a double century in his first Test match outside Pakistan after Zaheer Abbas, the former great Pakistani batsman known as the Asian Bradman. I was performed by Zaheer Abbas against England.
Before this match, Saud Shakeel had scored 967 runs in 19 innings of 10 Test matches at an average of 60.43, including a double century, two centuries and 6 half-centuries. On the first day of the first Test against Bangladesh, he made his career scored his 7th half-century and thus became the second Pakistani to complete 1000 runs in his 20th Test innings. In the first Test match of the ongoing series between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s opening three batsmen scored just 8 runs. After returning to the pavilion, Vice-captain Saud Shakeel shared a responsible innings with Saim Ayub, during which both batsmen completed their half-centuries.
