Pakistan test team captain Shan MasoodImage Credit source: PTI
Pakistan cricket team has been continuously struggling in every format for the last few years. Not only in ICC tournaments and not only against big teams, but also in bilateral series and against some smaller teams, Pakistan’s fate has been bad. The major reason for this condition of the team is the failure of every captain, who himself could not perform well with his bat or ball. In Test cricket, this is the story of Shan Masood, under whose captaincy the Pakistani team is struggling against Bangladesh and Masood himself’s bat is silent.
in mirpur Bangladesh and Pakistan This is what happened to Shan Masood in the first test match between. For this series, Pakistani fans expected from Masood and his team that they would be able to avenge the home defeat from Bangladesh. But this does not seem to be happening. From the first day of the match, host Bangladesh maintained its dominance over Pakistan, which continued till the last day and the flop show of captain Shan Masood was especially in the news.
Pakistani captain failed in both innings
In the first innings of this match, Bangladesh had already given tension to the Pakistani captain by scoring 413 runs. Then when it came to batting itself, Shan Masood failed miserably. In Pakistan’s first innings, he was out after scoring only 9 runs. Among the 7 leading batsmen of the team, Masood and vice-captain Saud Shakeel were the two names who could not reach double digits.
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But this story was not only about the first innings but Masood got killed early in the second innings also. Pakistan got a target of 268 runs to win and they had to score these runs on the last day of the match. But after the fall of 2 wickets for only 57 runs, Shan Masood came to the crease. It was expected that this time he would be successful in making the team win or at least saving it from defeat, but the Pakistani captain was the guest of only 5 balls and was out after scoring 2 runs.
Failed in batting, failed in captaincy also
This is not the first time that Shan Masood has faced such a situation against Bangladesh. In fact, in the 4 test matches he played against Bangladesh in his career, he failed on most of the occasions. He has scored only one century and one half-century in 7 innings against Bangladesh. His century came in 2020 and his half-century in 2024. Overall, he could score only 216 runs in 7 innings at an average of 31. He has failed not only in batting but also in captaincy. Before this series, Bangladesh had toured Pakistan in 2024 and then under the leadership of Shan Masood, Pakistan had to face a humiliating 0-2 defeat at the hands of Bangladesh at home.
