mohammad rizwan and saud shakeel
Pakistan vs Bangladesh 1st Test: The first test match is being played between Pakistan and Bangladesh. In this match, Bangladesh team captain Nazmul Hasan Shanto won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited the Pakistani team to bat first. Pakistan’s top order batsmen could not perform well. But Saud Shakeel (141 runs) and Mohammad Rizwan (171 runs) scored excellent centuries. After this, Pakistan declared the innings after scoring 448 runs. But an incident happened in the match which caught everyone’s attention.
Completed 4 runs just by running
The 49th over of Pakistan’s innings was bowled by Bangladesh’s Nahid Rana. Saud Shakeel played the first ball of this over and played the stroke towards mid-off. After this, the ball was going towards the boundary at a fast pace but Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel continued to take runs by running between the wickets. Then suddenly the ball stopped in the middle. But by the time the fielder caught the ball and gave it back to the bowler, it was too late and Pakistani batsman Saud Shakeel completed 4 runs by running. Pakistan Cricket has shared its video on the social media platform X.
Rizwan and Saud Shakeel scored centuries
For Pakistan, Abdullah Shafiq (2 runs), Shan Masood (6 runs), Babar Azam (0 runs) were able to play big innings. But after this Sam Ayub and Saud Shakeel took the responsibility of scoring runs. Both these players took the Pakistani team out of trouble. Ayub scored 56 runs. There was a partnership of 240 runs between Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel for the fifth wicket. Shakeel scored 141 runs, while Rizwan played an innings of 171 runs. Rizwan has become the first Pakistani player to play an innings of 150 plus runs after the year 2009.
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