Pakistan opening batsman Shan Masood showcased immense grit and resilience in the ongoing first Test against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. He stood tall against the quality pace attack♎ featuring the likes of James Anderson and Stuart Broad, and registered his 4th Test century.
Also, this was Masood’s third Test century in a row. The left-handed batsman wasn’t very aggressive during his knock, instead, he remained calm and didn’t put a foot wrong against the swinging deliveries. Although the wickets kept falling at the other end, Masood did not put his guards down and scored a marvellous hundred.
YES!!! 100 up for 👏👏👏
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB)
On♊e could understand the extraordinary effort exhibited by Masood simply with the fact that in the long history of Pakistan in red-ball cricket, Masood has become only the fifth opener to score a Test ton on English soil. The last Test ton by a 🐲Pakistani opener came 24 years ago when Saeed Anwar smashed 176 at The Oval.
Test hundreds by Pakistan openers in England
- 200 – Mohsin Khan, Lord’s 1982
- 124 – Mudassar Nazar, Edgbaston 1987
- 205 – Aamer Sohail, Manchester 1992
- 176 – Saeed Anwar, Oval 1996
- 100* – Shan Masood, Manchester 2020
Masood became the sixth Pakistan batsman to score three consec🌺utive hundreds in the ♈longest format of the game.
Three consecutive 100s for Pakistan (Tests)
- Zaheer Abbas (1982-83)
- Mudassar Nazar (1983)
- Mohammad Yousuf (2006)
- Younis Khan (2014)
- Misbah-ul-Haq (2014)
- Shan Masood (2019-20) *
Earlier, on Day 1, Masood stit💯ched a cru▨cial partnership with Babar Azam (69) to help the tourists. The pair added a 96-run stand before Anderson sent Babar back to the pavilion at the start of Day 2.
