At the Singhalese Sports Club during game two of the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka, middle-order batsman Saud Shakeel scored yet another half-century.
The left-handed batter led his team to a sizable lead of 231 runs in the first innings of the game at tea on Day 3. He scored 57 runs off 100 balls, including six boundaries.
The 27-year-old batsman’s innings made him the first player in red-ball cricket history to score seven half-centuries in his first seven Test matches.
On the list, the cricketer from Karachi outperformed legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Basil Butcher, Saeed Ahmad, and Bert Sutcliffe.
By scoring the highest individual score by a Pakistani batter in the first Test, Saud Shakeel broke the previous record for Test cricket.
On the list of highest individual performances in Test cricket in Sri Lanka, he bested former cricketer Mohammad Hafeez.
While Younis Khan, a legendary cricketer, scored 177 runs in the 2014 series, Mohammad Hafeez scored 196 runs in Sri Lanka during the 2012 series in Colombo.
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