Pakistan vs England : Shan Masood, Pakistani opener to score a century after 24 years in England

 Shan Masood, Pakistani opener to score a century after 24 years in England

Shan Masood, Pakistani opener to score a century after 24 years in England
When the national cricket team arrived in the UK for the Test series against England after a long lockdown due to Code-19, cricket circles expressed happiness over the resumption of the game and set expectations for a standard game.

The national team stayed in England for more than a month and played cautiously on the first day when they took to the field for the first Test on August 5, while captain Azhar Ali and opener Abid Ali failed to make a significant impact, but the opener Shaun Masood stuck to the wicket and made up for the loss.

Babar Azam along with Shaun Masood took the score to 139 runs and after playing beautiful innings of 69 runs, Shaun Masood took over the responsibility and completed the first half-century in partnership with Asad Shafiq and Mohammad Rizwan. Of

After Pakistan lost 5 wickets, the team started to look under pressure but Shadab Khan gave full support to Shaun Masood and at the same time Shaun completed his glorious and historic century.

Shaun Masood became the first Pakistani opener to score a century in England after a long absence of 24 years.

Earlier, former great batsman, Saeed Anwar had scored a century at the Oval in 1996, after which no Pakistani opener has failed to do so. Shaun Masood not only got the honor of scoring a century in England after a long time but also got the honor of scoring the third consecutive century in his Test career which only a few Pakistani batsmen have.

Earlier, Zaheer Abbas scored 83-1982, Mudassar Nazar 1983, Muhammad Yusuf 2006, Younis Khan 2014, and Misbah-ul-Haq 2014 three consecutive centuries.

Former captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who scored consecutive centuries in 2014, is currently the head coach of the national team and Younis Khan is the batting coach.