South Africa vs pakistan Shan Masood created havoc in South Africa, broke 27 year old record
South Africa vs pakistan: Shan Masood has left everyone behind by playing a brilliant innings on South African soil. What he has done now had never happened before.
Ankush Pandey
Shan Masood Record: Shan Masood has created a stir after reaching South Africa. Captain Shan Masood took charge to save the Pakistani team from innings defeat after the follow-on and is working to take his team forward. Meanwhile, he has broken a 27-year-old record. What big batsmen could not do in Tests on South African soil, Shan has now done that.
Shan Masood breaks Azhar Mahmood's record
Captain Shan Masood has scored 137 runs against South Africa and is currently unbeaten. This is the highest score by any Pakistani batsman in South Africa. In 1998, Pakistan's Azhar Mahmood played an innings of 136 runs in South Africa. This was a record which has now been broken. Pakistan's Taufiq Umar played an innings of 135 runs in South Africa. Saeed Anwar played an innings of 118 runs in South Africa. Now Shan Masood has become the batsman who has played the biggest Test innings in South Africa.
Partnership of more than 200 runs between Babar Azam and Shan Masood
When the Pakistani team came to the field after follow-on in the second innings of the match, they got good support from former captain Babar Azam. There was a brilliant partnership of 205 runs between Shan Masood and Babar Azam. However, after Babar Azam was out, Khurram Shahzad also left soon. Kamran Ghulam also got out after scoring only 28 runs. But the good thing for Pakistan was that Shan Masood held one end. Although it will not be easy for Pakistan to avoid defeat from here, but it is certain that the Pakistani team can avoid innings defeat. Today is the fourth day of the match, after this one more day will be left. That is, the possibility of a draw is also very less.
There will be no impact on the World Test Championship
The Pakistani team has lost the first match of the series and something similar is seen happening in the second as well. The Pakistani team has already been eliminated from the race for the final of the World Test Championship, while the South African team has entered it. Therefore, the result of this match is important only for this series, it will not have any impact on the rest of the WTC points table.
