1st Test
Day-2 Morning Session Highlights:
Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel has dominated a lackluster Bangladesh bowling attack
At The Lunch of Day-2:
Pakistan scored 256/4 vs Bangladesh.
Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel registered the third-highest fifth-wicket partnership for Pakistan against Bangladesh, positioning the hosts strongly in the first Test in Rawalpindi.
Bangladesh’s bowlers went wicketless during the 29-over, two-hour-and-fifteen-minute first session on Day 2, as Pakistan added 98 runs.
Rizwan (89*) and Shakeel (86*) extended their partnership to 142, leading Pakistan to 256 for 4 at Lunch.
Having added 44 runs in the final session of Day 1, Shakeel and Rizwan continued their solid partnership into Day 2’s morning session.
They rotated the strike effectively, capitalized on boundary opportunities, and maintained a steady scoring rate, while Bangladesh’s bowlers struggled to extract any assistance from the pitch, whether in pace or spin.
Rizwan became the third Pakistan batter to reach fifty in the innings, guiding a well-directed short ball from Nahid Rana to the third-man boundary.
He repeated the shot off the next delivery with similar success and later unleashed an authoritative pull off Rana for his first six.
The century stand was reached shortly after, with Bangladesh’s bowlers failing to make an impact despite Najmul Hossain Shanto’s rotation of options.
Unable to curb the scoring rate, the Bangladesh bowlers watched as Rizwan consistently found the gaps and regularly hit boundaries, maintaining a strike rate above 80 and surpassing his batting partner.
Both Rizwan and Shakeel entered the 80s and remained unbeaten as they headed into the Lunch break.
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