Babar Azam: Became the first Pakistani player to play five fifty plus test innings in South Africa.
Babar Azam Broke Asad Shafiq Record: At the end of the third day of the second match of the 2-match Test series between South Africa and Pakistan being played at Newlands, Cape Town, the Pakistani team, after following, scored 213 runs at the loss of one wicket in its second innings. In which South Africa still has a lead of 208 runs. Earlier, Pakistan team was limited to 194 runs in its first innings. In the second innings, excellent batting was seen from the team in which Pakistani Test team captain Shan Masood along with Babar Azam made a record partnership of 205 runs for the first wicket. Babar, who had scored a fifty in the first session of the third day, also scored 81 runs in the team’s second innings, with which he also broke a big record of Asad Shafiq.
Became the first player to play five fifty plus innings for Pakistan in South Africa
Even though Babar Azam could not score a single century in this Test series against South Africa, he made a big record in his name by scoring 81 runs in the second innings of the Pakistani team in the Cape Town Test. This was Babar’s 10th Test innings in Africa in which he managed to score fifty plus runs for the fifth time. With this, he broke the record of Asad Shafiq, who as a Pakistani player had played four fifty plus innings in 12 Test innings in South Africa. At the same time, Babar has now become the second player from Pakistan who managed to score 50 or more runs in both the innings of a Test match in South Africa. Earlier in the year 2003, Taufiq Umar had done this.
Babar and Masood pair broke 22 years old record
The 205-run partnership between Shan Masood and Babar Azam for the first wicket in the second innings of the Pakistani team in the Cape Town Test match is the biggest opening partnership for Pakistan against South Africa so far in the Test. Shaan and Babar together broke the 22-year-old record when Pakistan’s Imran Farhat and Taufiq Umar made a partnership of 137 runs for the first wicket in the test match played against the African team in Faisalabad in 2003. .
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