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Pakistan lose early wicket as Bangladesh lead by 117 runs after first innings
Saim Ayub's early dismissal will put additional pressure on Pakistan to close the gap and counter Bangladesh's lead.News Desk
August 24, 2024
Pakistan's captain of the Test cricket team Shaan Masood. AFP/file
Pakistan faced an early setback in their second innings on the fourth day of the first Test against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi.
Opener Saim Ayub, who scored a half-century in Pakistan's first innings, was dismissed for one run, caught behind off the bowling of Shoriful Islam in the third over.
Earlier, Bangladesh were dismissed for 565, thanks to a remarkable innings of 191 by veteran Mushfiqur Rahim.
Rahim’s marathon knock, which lasted eight hours and 42 minutes, concluded when he edged pacer Mohammad Ali to wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan.
Rahim's innings, combined with a record-breaking partnership of 196 runs for the seventh wicket with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, helped Bangladesh secure a lead of 117 runs.
This total surpassed Bangladesh's previous record of 555-6 set against Pakistan in Khulna in 2015.
The stand between Rahim and Mehidy also set a new record for the highest seventh-wicket partnership against Pakistan, breaking the previous record of 186 runs set by Warren Lees and Richard Hadlee for New Zealand in Karachi in 1976.
Mehidy Hasan Miraz was dismissed for 77 by Shaheen Shah Afridi, who claimed 2-88. Naseem Shah was Pakistan’s most successful bowler with figures of 3-93.
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Bangladesh cruise to maiden Test victory over Pakistan
AFP | Dawn.comAugust 25, 2024
Bangladesh’s Shadman Islam (2L) and Zakir Hasan (2R) shake hands with Pakistan’s players after their team’s maiden Test win against Pakistan at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on August 25. — AFP
Spinners Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan took seven wickets between them to secure Bangladesh’s maiden win over Pakistan in five-day cricket, a stunning 10-wicket victory in the first Test in Rawalpindi on Sunday.
Mehidy grabbed 4-21 and Shakib 3-44 to trigger a Pakistan collapse on the fifth day, with the home side dismissed for 146 runs in 55.5 overs.
That left Bangladesh a target of just 30 runs, which openers Zakir Hasan and Shadman Islam reached in 6.3 overs.
Zakir (15) hit the winning boundary, with Shadman at the other end unbeaten on nine, as their squad celebrated a memorable victory.
Mohammad Rizwan top-scored for Pakistan in the second innings with 51, including six boundaries, but the home team were staring at defeat on 108-6 at lunch.
A holiday crowd of nearly 5,000 expected Pakistan to fight out a draw but Mehidy bowled Rizwan and trapped last man Mohammad Ali for a duck in successive overs.
Bangladesh, criticised for their lack of Test wins, now have one win each over Australia, England and Pakistan. The win in Rawalpindi was only their sixth in 143 Tests.
Pakistan’s batting crumbled on a pitch that had been unresponsive over the first four days until small cracks started to appear that were exploited by Bangladesh’s spinners.
The hosts declared their first innings at 448-6 and Bangladesh responded with 565, their highest against Pakistan in Tests. Pakistan also paid for not including a frontline spinner as they fell to the fifth defeat in their past nine home matches, with four draws.
Their leading batsmen also failed, with Babar Azam making only 22 and skipper Shan Masood 14. First innings century-maker Saud Shakeel fell for a fourth-ball duck.
Pakistan trailed by 117 in the first innings and resumed at 23-1, only to lose Masood in the second over to pace bowler Hasan Mahmud. It could have been 28-3 had wicketkeeper Liton Das not dropped a regulation catch off fast bowler Shoriful Islam to give Azam a first-ball reprieve.
Azam hit three delightful boundaries to raise hopes of a Pakistan fightback but was bowled by an inside edge off Nahid Rana for the right-arm paceman’s only wicket of the match.
Shakib, whose participation in the Test drew protests at home over his political ties to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, had Shakeel stumped and Shafique caught off a miscued shot before lunch.
Agha Salman then fell to off-spinner Mehidy for a first-ball duck, leaving Pakistan in tatters at 105-6. Mehidy then dismissed Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah cheaply in the space of seven runs.
Pakistan won 12 of the previous 13 Tests against Bangladesh, six by an innings, with one draw.
The second and final Test will also be played at Rawalpindi from Friday, with the series part of the World Test Championship (WTC).
Pakistan slumped to eighth in the nine-team WTC table after their defeat, with Bangladesh climbing to sixth.
In a post-match interview, Pakistan skipper Shan Masood said the match “didn’t play the way we thought it would”.
“There were other factors in the game, we lost half a day on the first day [due to rain],” he said. “We have to look upon the mistakes we made collectively and work on them,” the captain said.
“We expected the pitch to do more,” Shan continued. “I thought with three fast bowlers, we would push them to the limit.”
Asked about what the team could have done differently over the past days, Shan said, “Hindsight’s 20/20, the reason behind the declaration was a positive push. We could have done with those runs, but there are some things in the ball and the field we could have done.”
He added that “the cracks have opened up in last night’s session”, commending Bangladesh’s bowling attack. “We have to do better whenever we play next,” he maintained.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi congratulated the Bangladesh team for playing “wonderfully” and holding “their ground throughout the match”.
“It is a historic win for they have won against Pakistan for the first time,” Naqvi said in a post on X.
