Bangladesh couldn’t really recover from the early stuns of losing debutant Saif Hassan and Tamim Iqbal and were booked for 233 runs in their first innings of the first Test of the series at the Pindi Stadium on Friday.
Pakistan’s pace bowlers struck early in the innings to leave Bangladesh battling at 95-3. Shaheen Shah Afridi stood apart as he picked four wickets for 53 runs. Mohammad Abbas and Haris Sohail took two wickets each while Naseem Shah picked one. Abu Jayed was the last man to fall who got run out by a throw from Mohammad Abbas.
The top scorer from Bangladesh was Mohammad Mithun, who scored 63 runs with the assistance of seven boundaries and a maximum. He was caught behind by Mohammad Rizwan on a fine delivery by 16-year-old Naseem Shah.
Pakistan quick bowlers used to their advantage a tinge of grass on the wicket at the Pindi Cricket Stadium after commander Azhar Ali won the coin-toss and chose to field.
The guests ran into early difficulty against Pakistan’s pace bowlers and after Afridi’s initial strike, Abbas effectively went for leg before wicket referral against Iqbal in the second finished yet Nigel Llong overturned an appeal that was rather confident.
Tamim, who scored a triple century in a domestic five star game a week ago, scored just three in his first Test after a break, after the left-hander missed Bangladesh’s last Test arrangement against India. Abbas bowled two clean spells in the first session of the day and parted with just seven runs conceded in his 10 overs for the key wicket of Tamim.
Mominul and Najmul played fearlessly after two early mishaps and exactly when they hoped to convey Bangladesh’s fightback, Afridi broke the 59-run stand for the third-wicket . Mominul hit five fours that included two fours in Afridi’s one over before the left-armer actuated an edge of Bangladesh captains bat which was caught by wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan.
Pakistan decided on the same team that won the second Test against Sri Lanka in Karachi in December 2019, playing with three quick bowlers and a spinner Yasir Shah.
Bangladesh gave opportunity to the 21-year-old opener Saif Hassan(debutant) and furthermore included three pacers just as a spinner in Taijul Islam