Pakistan fought diminishing light to beat Bangladesh by an innings and eight runs and clinch the two-Test series 2-0 in Dhaka on Wednesday. Sajid Khan collected 4-86 and finished with 12 wickets.
Bangladesh’s middle order put up a valiant fight, but they were unable to salvage a draw as the hosts’ last wicket fell only minutes before dusk.
Shakib top-scored for Bangladesh with 63 off 130 balls, completing the fastest all-round career double of 4,000 runs and 200 wickets in history, surpassing Ian Botham’s previous record of 4,000 runs and 200 wickets.
Despite a 51-run seventh-wicket stand with Mehidy Hossain, Bangladesh’s hopes were shattered when Pakistan captain Babar Azam trapped his teammate.
Babar remarked of his maiden Test wicket, “I felt like I needed to bowl at that time and I’m extremely delighted I got the wicket.”
“Our batsmen, particularly our openers, got us off to a strong start, and our aim was to just dominate despite the awful conditions,” he continued.
In the following over, Sajid, who had taken 8-42 in the first innings, broke past Shakib’s defence and bowled him out.
When the light began to go, he grabbed the final two wickets, preventing Pakistan’s fast bowlers from bowling at the tail-enders.
Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim and Liton Das had previously made 48 and 45 runs, respectively, but Hasan Ali and Shaheen Afridi took two wickets each after Pakistan forced the follow-on.
Before being run out on the stroke of tea, Mushfiqur had solid partnerships with Liton and Shakib.
“We had a chance to play better in the second innings than we did in the first,” Bangladesh skipper Monimul Haque remarked.
After restarting with three wickets remaining, the hosts could only add 11 runs to their first innings total and were bowled for 87, their lowest score on home soil and 213 runs behind Pakistan.
Sajid bowled Taijul Islam leg before for a duck in his first over of the morning, then Afridi bowled Khaled Ahmed for none in the following over.
Shakib Al Hasan was the last man out, he holed out to Azhar Ali at short cover off Sajid after scoring 33 runs, the highest total in Bangladesh’s innings.
Due to rain and poor lighting, only 63.2 overs of play were possible in the first three days.
Pakistan scored 300-4 in their first innings.
Pakistan won the first Test by eight wickets in Chittagong.
They went undefeated on the tour after winning the three-match T20 series 3-0.
