After the failure of Pakistan’s top order in the first Test match against New Zealand, captain Babar Azam scored a century and former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed scored a half-century.
In the first match of the two-Test series against New Zealand, Pakistan’s top order failed once again and lost 3 wickets for 48 runs. In the first session, four wickets of the national team had fallen when Saud Shakeel was also dismissed for 22 runs on a total score of 110.
On this occasion, the former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, who returned to the Test team after 3 years, came to support the captain Babar Azam at the crease and both of them are busy trying to cross the team’s slump.
Meanwhile, captain Babar Azam has scored a century and former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, who has given him full support, has scored a half century. This is the ninth century of Babar’s Test career.
Sarfaraz Ahmed made a brilliant comeback to the team after three years and scored his 19th half-century in his 50th Test match. He has also scored 2 centuries.
Babar Azam is playing on 122 and Sarfraz Ahmed is playing on 54 runs. Pakistan’s total score is 240 runs for the loss of 4 wickets and a valuable partnership of 130 runs has been established between the two batsmen.
Earlier, opener Imam-ul-haq scored 24 runs, Saud Shakeel scored 22 runs.
Abdullah Shafiq and Shaan Masood failed completely and returned to the pavilion after scoring 7 and 3 runs respectively. For New Zealand, Bracewell took 2 wickets while captain Southee and Patel took one wicket each.
Three changes have been made in the national team in today’s match.
Imam-ul-Haq, who was out of the last match against England due to unfitness, has returned to the team after being fit. Apart from this, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mir Hamza have also returned to the team.
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