Aus vs Pak: Saud Shakeel creates history during Perth Test

Saud Shakeel made his Test cricket debut for Pakistan in 2022. — AFPPakistan’s middle-order batter Saud Shakeel created history during the second innings of the first Test against Australia at Perth Stadium on Sunday.Shakeel, who is playing his eighth Test match, became the first batter in the history of red-ball cricket to score at least 20 runs in each of his first 15 innings. The 28-year-old surpassed West Indies’ Everton Weekes' streak of scoring at least 20 runs in 14 consecutive innings.He is now one innings away from equaling Australia’s Colin McDonald’s record, who posted at least 10 runs in his first 16 Test innings.Pakistan collapsed badly during their chase of 450 runs and lost half of their wickets before 80 runs as a team.Not a single batter could stay against the fierce Australian pace attack consisting of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood.By the time this story was filed, Pakistan were batting at 79-6 with Saud (21*) and Faheem Ashraf (3*) still on the crease and they needed 371 runs to win.Commencing a challenging run chase, Pakistan had a dismal start with Abdullah Shafique dismissed for two in the initial over, edging an unplayable delivery from Mitchell Starc to wicketkeeper Alex Carey.Captain Shan Masood, leading in his maiden Test, didn’t stay much longer, nicking one to Carey off Josh Hazlewood for two, leaving his team in dire straits at 17-2.Starc further troubled the batting side by dismissing Imam-ul-Haq lbw for 10, before Babar Azam and Saud Shakeel resisted momentarily.However, their resistance crumbled when Azam edged Cummins on 14, caught again by Carey, leaving Shakeel on 10 and Sarfaraz Ahmed on one at the break.Earlier today, Australia made a declaration at 233-5 in their second innings on day four after Pakistan were all out for 271.Captain Pat Cummins made the decision after opener Usman Khawaja departed for a resilient 90 on a worsening pitch, following a 126-run partnership with Mitchell Marsh.Marsh remained unbeaten at 63 as Pakistan managed to dismiss Steve Smith and Travis Head early in the day, momentarily sparking hope that quickly faded away. Faizan Lakhani Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports) at Geo News. Comments Submit Dr.Abdul Farooq commented one year agoبہت بڑا ریکارڈ قائم کیا ہے Reply Sohail jaffar ali commented one year agoDoob marna chaya iss record Bana nay per Reply Arjay commented one year agoاور بھی دکھ ہیں زمانے میں کرکٹ کے سوا۔۔۔۔ Reply Razi Rajpoot commented one year agoPakistan's Bastmen always fail on Fast & bounce pitch specially in Australia South Africa Reply Rohan jan commented one year agoPakistan mein Kiya acha hai Jo cricket acha ho g Reply Aamir commented one year agoThe regime is currently doing collapse on every field in Pakistan,are now coming to down the gentleman’s game so that nothing will remain on merit based. Reply farooq tasadduq khan commented one year agoریکارڈ تو پاکستان بہت بنا رہا ہے Reply Zubair Islam commented one year agoWhat's the purpose of records if you keep losing Reply Ashfaq Kassim commented one year agoIt is good that our Pakistan Cricket Team, did not got out at 36 runs score, like India, V/s Australia, in Australia. And many of us were ready for that result. But, we are hopeful, the Team, will give good results in next Test Match. The Captains innings needed, as there are 3 Captains in the Team. Reply مضمون کا ماخذ:عمومی کلیدی الفاظ