The final day of the second consecutive Test match between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Sylhet started with 7 players of the visiting team scoring 316 runs.
Mohammad Rizwan and Sajid Khan start the day with 75 and 8 runs for Pakistan team, Bangladesh need 3 wickets to win and Pakistan need 121 runs to win.
At the end of the fourth day, the batting coach Asad Shafiq said that there is hope that Muhammad Rizwan and Sajid Khan will lead the team to their goal.
It is worth noting that the fourth day was started by Pakistani opener Azan Owais and Abdullah Fazal, but Abdullah Fazal scored 6 runs for a total of 27 and fell victim to Naheed Rana. After that, Azan Owais could only manage 21 runs in a total of 41 innings.
The Pakistan team suffered the third defeat in the form of Babar Azam and the total score of the team was 133.
The captain of the national team, Shan Masood, seemed to hold back a little, but after playing 71 runs for a total of 162, he fell victim to Tej Salam and returned to the dugout where half of the Pakistan team was defeated.
In such a situation, Pakistan’s batting line-up was supported by Salman Ali Akha’s 71 runs, while Tej Salam scored a total of 296.
Let’s talk about the Sylhet test start here, Pakistan captain Shan Masood won and invited the hosts Bangladesh to bat first, in reply the home team made 278 runs in their first innings, the score looked easy but the Pakistani batsmen looked helpless in front of the Bangladeshi bowling and all out were 232 runs out of 234 runs.
In the first innings for Bangladesh, wicketkeeper batsman Liton Das was the leading batsman with 126 runs off 159 balls which included 16 fours and 2 sixes.
On behalf of Pakistan, Khurram Shehzad dismissed 4 players, Muhammad Abbas 3 and Hasan Ali 2 players and Sajid Khan took one player to the pavilion.
On the other hand, in the first innings, Babar Azam became the famous batsman of Pakistan with 68 runs, he hit 10 fours and spinner Sajid Khan was the second highest scorer with 38 runs from 28 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 2 fours.
In the second matches, Mushfiqur Rahim scored 137 runs, Latini Das scored 69 runs and Mehmoodul Hasan Joy scored 52 runs on behalf of Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh’s second match, Khurram Shahzad dismissed 4 players, Sajid Khan took 3 wickets and Hasan Ali and Muhammad Abbas took 2 wickets and 1 wicket respectively.
The Bangladesh team scored 390 runs in their second innings on the third day of play and defeated Pakistan by 46 runs to 437 runs.
Here it is worth mentioning that at the end of the third day, the bowling coach of the Pakistan Cricket team Umer Gul said in a press conference that if we bat continuously for 2 days, we have a chance to win the match.
He said, we are mentally ready to achieve the goal and we will try, two or three good partnerships should take place to achieve the goal of 437 steps.
It is worth mentioning that the first match of the two-test series of the ICC World Test Championship was played in Mirpur, Dhaka, in which Pakistan lost by 104 runs. Now the national team is fighting for victory in Sylhet.
