Nahid Rana wreaked havoc on the last dayImage Credit source: BCB
‘Neither from the house, nor from the ghat’. This famous Hindi idiom fits perfectly with the Pakistan cricket team, which has once again faced a shameful defeat at the hands of Bangladesh. Bangladesh defeated Pakistan by a huge margin of 104 runs in the first Test match played in Mirpur and took a 1-0 lead in the 2-match Test series. After the excellent innings of captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto, tall fast bowler Nahid Rana wreaked havoc on Pakistan, who sent half of the Pakistan team back to the pavilion on the last day.
On May 12, the last day of the match at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium, Bangladesh declared its second innings at the score of 240 runs losing 9 wickets. Captain Shanto, who scored a brilliant century in the first innings, also scored 87 runs in the second innings. In this way, Pakistan had a target of 268 runs to win, while it had about 70 overs. Whereas Bangladesh had only a little more than 2 sessions. But Bangladesh bowlers bowled out Pakistan for just 163 runs in even less time and registered a spectacular victory.
The biggest role in Pakistan’s condition was played by 23 year old fast bowler Nahid Rana, whose fast pace and precise line had no answer for the Pakistani batsmen. In the first innings, Nahid got only 1 wicket but on the last day of the match on the Mirpur pitch, where spinners generally get help, Nahid wreaked havoc. The Bangladeshi pacer single-handedly destroyed Pakistan completely by taking 5 wickets. It was he who gave Bangladesh this emphatic victory by dismissing the last batsman in the form of Shaheen Shah Afridi.
The final blow. Shaheen Shah Afridi falls. Bangladesh rise 🇧🇩 pic.twitter.com/KhyyFbSXB4
— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) May 12, 2026
With this, Bangladesh has given a crushing defeat to Pakistan in the third consecutive test match. Earlier, Bangladesh had made a clean sweep of the Test series 2-0 when they toured Pakistan in 2024. Then Bangladesh had won the first test of the series played in Rawalpindi by 10 wickets and the second test by 6 wickets. Now with a big win by 104 runs, Bangladesh has scored a hat-trick of wins. With this, after Zimbabwe, Pakistan has become the only team against which Bangladesh has won 3 consecutive test matches.
