Mar 17, 2022: According to a report by sporting website ESPN Cricinfo, the second test match in the Pak V Australia series at The National Stadium Karachi, made it to the cricketing records books and rewrote history in multiple ways.

The amount of time spent by Pakistan batting in the fourth innings to save the match

England faced 218.2 eight-ball overs during a 696-run chase against South Africa in 1939. Pakistan’s 171.4 overs is also the 5th longest by a team in the fourth innings of a Test.

It is also the longest time that Pakistan has batted in the 4th innings of a Test, surpassing the 145 overs against Australia in 2016 in Brisbane. The total of 443 for 7 by Pakistan in Karachi is also their 2nd highest fourth-innings total, behind the 450 all out in the same Brisbane Test.

First-innings lead of 408 for Australia in this match

Only on five occasions in Tests has a team held a higher first-innings lead before settling to a draw. The highest is 563 runs by England against West Indies in the 1930 Kingston Test.

196 score by Babar Azam in the 4th innings in Karachi

It is now the highest individual score for a captain in the fourth innings of a Test. The previous highest was 185* by Michael Atherton against South Africa in Johannesburg in 1995. Babar’s 196 is the highest individual score for Pakistan in the fourth innings of a Test, surpassing Younis Khan’s 171* against Sri Lanka in 2015.

196 knock by skipper

Babar’s innings is the seventh-highest fourth-innings score in Test cricket, and the highest in the fourth innings against Australia. Kumar Sangakkara previously held the record with 192 in the 2007 Hobart Test.

Time spent by Babar Azam at the crease

603 Minutes batted by Babar during his marathon effort. It is the 2nd longest fourth innings in terms of minutes batted in a Test. Atherton spent 643 minutes for his aforementioned 185*.

Babar and Abdullah Shafique partnership

228 Partnership between Babar and Abdullah Shafique, the 2nd highest stand for the third wicket in the fourth innings and the 2nd highest for Pakistan in the fourth innings of a Test match. The highest is 242 between Shan Masood and Younis for the third wicket against Sri Lanka in 2015.

Michael Swepson’s bowling figures of 156-0

The 156 runs conceded by Swepson are also the 2nd most in a Test innings on debut for Australia, behind Jason Krejza’s 215 during his eight-wicket haul against India in 2008. These are the 3rd worst figures for a bowler on Test debut. Adil Rashid conceded 163 runs without picking a wicket in his debut innings against Pakistan in 2015, while Zafar Gohar picked 0 wickets for 159 runs against New Zealand in 2021.

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