Babar Azam
Bangladesh vs Pakistan Test Series Babar Azam: Bangladesh team has to play a two-Test match series against Pakistan from 21 August. The squads of both the teams have already been announced. The Pakistani team is led by Shan Masood and the captain of Bangladesh is Nazmul Hasan Shanto. By winning both the matches of the series, the Pakistani team would like to improve its ranking in the points table of the World Test Championship. At the same time, the Pakistani team is at number five in the WTC points table. The team’s PCT is 36.66. Pakistan’s star batsman Babar Azam can do a big feat in the Test series.
Babar Azam can complete 4000 Test runs
Babar Azam has so far scored 3898 runs in 52 matches in the history of Test cricket, which includes 9 centuries and 26 half-centuries. Now if he scores 102 runs in the series against Bangladesh, he will complete his four thousand runs in Test cricket. At the same time, Babar Azam also has a golden opportunity to surpass legendary batsmen Hanif Mohammad and Majid Khan. In the Test series against Bangladesh, as soon as he scores 17 runs, he will surpass Hanif Mohammad and as soon as he scores 33 runs, he will surpass Majid Khan in terms of scoring runs in Test cricket. In Test cricket, Hanif has scored 3915 runs and Majid has scored 3931 runs.
Younis Khan has scored the most Test runs for Pakistan. He has scored 10099 runs in 118 Test matches for the Pakistani team, which includes 34 centuries. He is the only batsman to score more than 10 thousand runs for Pakistan. Javed Miandad is at second place. He has scored 8832 runs.
Captained Pakistan in 20 Test matches
Babar Azam left the captaincy of all three formats of Pakistan after a poor performance in the ODI World Cup 2023. After this, Shan Masood got the responsibility of captaincy in Tests and Shaheen Afridi in T20 Internationals. But before the T20 World Cup 2024, Babar again became the captain of Pakistan’s limited overs. At the same time, Masood remained the Test captain. Babar has captained 20 Test matches for Pakistan, out of which the team has won 10. At the same time, 6 matches have been lost and four Test matches have been drawn.
Bangladesh vs Pakistan Test series schedule:
First Test: August 21-25 – Rawalpindi
Second Test: August 30 to September 3 – Karachi
Pakistan team
Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfraz Ahmed and Shaheen Shah Afridi
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