Pakistan tour of Bangladesh 2021 News

The second Test match between Bangladesh and Pakistan has been in the limelight mainly because of the persistent rain which had not allowed the play to go on for a larger period of time. However, on day four, things changed drastically as Pakistan declared their innings at 300-4 and invited Bangladesh to play crucial 10 overs before Tea. The declaration did the trick as Sajid Kahan made use of the turning wicket and removed the two Bangladesh openers in Shadman Islam and debutant Mahmudul Hasan Joy. While Islam made three runs, Joy would now have to carry the burden of being out on a duck in his debut international innings. Skipper Mominul Haque who failed in both innings of the first Test continued to dwell in bad form as he was run out two just before Tea. Just at the time of writing this copy, the Tigers lost their oldest warhorse in Mushfiqur Rahim who literally threw his wicket away. Rahim tried to go for an extravagant slog sweep and handed a simple above head catch to Fawad Alam at mid-wicket. In only 14 overs, Bangladesh are now 42-4 with Najmul Hussain Shanto and last match hero Liton Das at the crease. Earlier in the day, both Babar Azam and Azhar Ali, the overnight batters were removed by Khaled Ahmed and Ebadot Hussain respectively. But Fawad Alam and Mohammad Rizwan, the two men that joined afterwards made sure that runs flew swiftly and took Pakistan to 300, picking their respective fifties on the way while remaining unbeaten.

The third day’s play of the second Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan has been called off without a ball being bowled due to persistent rain in Mirpur. The game has come under severe bad weather as there has been only 63 overs and two balls across the first two days of the game so far. Earlier, on the first day of the Test, Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first on a flat looking surface at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. When the game stopped on the second day of the Test for not to resume as of yet, Pakistan were in a stronger position at 188/2 with the skipper Babar Azam and his predecessor Azhar Ali batting unbeaten on 71 and 52 respectively.

As rain brought in by the cyclonic conditions in the Bay of Bengal disturbed the day’s proceedings for the most part of the second day of play in the second Test between hosts Bangladesh and Pakistan at the Sher-E-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka, the child in ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was at full display. The Bangladeshi star was seen diving on the ground covers and sliding on it as if a child was swimming in the ponds in the Bangladeshi villages during a usual rainy day. As far as the Test match is concerned, only 6.3 overs of play was possible n the second day after Pakistan, which won the toss and decided to bat first had ended day one at 161-2. Today, the unbeaten duo of Azhar Ali and skipper Babar Azam added 17 runs in it without losing any wicket, finishing the day at 188-2. Azhar Ali also made use of the little window that the teams got for play by completing his 34th Test fifty. As for Shakib, he is making a comeback in international cricket after being injured in the recent T20 World Cup. He hasn’t picked up a wicket in the game as of now having bowled 15 overs so far.

Pakistan ended the first day of the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka in a commanding position as the visitors put 161/2 on the board before bad lights forced an early conclusion of the final session. Pakistan had a decent start to the proceedings as the openers Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique scored 59 runs for the first wicket. The partnership was eventually broken as Taijul Islam cleaned up Shafique for a personal score of 25 and then removed Abid in the same manner for 39. But Azhar Ali who had come in at number three and captain Babar Azam rebuilt the innings as the two batters stitched an unbeaten stand of 91 runs on Day 1. While Azhar remained unbeaten at 36, Babar struck 60* before the end of day’s play. For Bangladesh, it was only Taijul Islam who was among the wickets as he ended the day with figures of 2/49 in 17 overs. Pakistan presently lead the two-match Test series by 1-0 after they clinched a comprehensive 8-wicket win in the first encounter.

In a welcome relief to the hosts Bangladesh, all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has refined full fitness and come back into the squad for the second Test against Pakistan. He missed the entire T20I series and the first Test due to a hamstring injury he picked in the T20 World Cup. Along with him, pacer Taskin Ahmed, who missed the first Test due to a finger injury inflicted in the final T20I of the series and Mohammad Naim, who has been touted as the T20 specialist has been the notable entry in the Bangladesh squad. Bangladesh gave a strong fight to Pakistan in the first Test but fell short on crunch moments in the first innings and then were blown away in the second innings to lose the game by a margin of eight wickets. Bangladesh squad for the second Test Mominul Haque (C), Shadman Islam, Saif Hassan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Abu Jayed, Nayeem Hasan, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Rejaur Rahman Raja, Khaled Ahmed, Shohidul Islam, Mohammad Naim

Chasing more than 200 in a Test match is a dangerous proposition and in the subcontinent, it becomes even more precarious given the amount of turn that the pitches offer. However, for Pakistan openers, it turned out to be a walk in the park as they chased down the target of 203 set up by the Bangladeshi team in the fourth innings with much ease. Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique, the two openers played a great role in the victory as they did not give even a window of opportunity for the Bangladeshi bowlers to make inroads. Taking a leaf out of their first innings partnership of 146, the duo stitched together 151 this time around. They remained unbeaten on the fourth day, making the fifth day just a formality as only 93 runs were required for the win. Bangladesh, on the other end, might have harboured hopes of getting back into the game on the last day with their spin duo of Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Taijul Islam. However, it took too late for them to come to action and even as Mehidy broke the opening partnership by removing Shafique for 73. Tailjul also removed Abid for 91, but by that time Pakistan required only 31 runs to win. Skipper Babar Azam and senior Azhar Ali made sure that the target was reached without any further breaches. Earlier Bangladesh, even after claiming 44 runs lead in the first innings courtesy of Islam’s brilliant 7-116 spell, wasn’t able to capitalise on it and could only make 157 in their second innings. Even getting to that would have been difficult if it wasn’t for the half-century from Liton Das as the rest of the batters literally threw their wickets away. Courtesy of this win, the Pakistani team moved to second position in the Points Table of the World Test Championship 2021-23. They have 66.66 Percentage of Points courtesy of two wins from three completed games. Sri Lanka lead the table with one win from one match.