Mohammad Rizwan made a strong record in a lost match, reached the top of this special list

The Pakistan cricket team lost the first match of the Test series on Sunday, August 25. Pakistan witnessed its first defeat against Bangladesh in the history of Test cricket. Mushfiqur Rahim’s big century overshadowed Mohammad Rizwan’s brilliant performance in Rawalpindi and Bangladesh defeated Pakistan by 10 wickets. However, Rizwan also performed brilliantly in this match. He was the only player for Pakistan who performed brilliantly with the bat in both innings.

Rizwan made a special record

Rizwan scored his highest Test score in the first innings, scoring an unbeaten 171 runs as Pakistan declared the innings at 448, and then showed his batting prowess by scoring a half-century in the second innings. Rizwan top-scored in both innings but could not save his team from defeat. No other player for Pakistan could play a big inning in this match.

Pakistan suffered a 10-wicket defeat for the first time at home, but Rizwan created history with his brilliant innings in the first Test match. Rizwan broke Taslim Arif’s record for the most runs by a Pakistani wicketkeeper in a Test match by scoring 222 runs in two innings. Only three Pakistani wicketkeepers have managed to score more than 200 runs in a Test match.

Pakistan’s highest run-scorer in both innings of a Test match is a wicketkeeper

1. 222 (171* & 51) – Mohammad Rizwan vs Bangladesh, Rawalpindi, 2024
2. 210 (210* and did not bat in the second innings) – Taslim Arif v Australia, Faisalabad, 1980
3. 209 (209 & 0) – Imtiaz Ahmed v New Zealand, Lahore, 1955
4. 197 (150 & 47*) – Rashid Latif v West Indies, Sharjah, 2002
5. 196 (78 & 118) – Sarfraz Ahmed vs West Indies, Karachi, 2023

He went ahead of Rishabh Pant also 

After scoring 171* off 239 balls in the first innings, he also set a new record for the highest score in a Test innings by a wicketkeeper in the history of the World Test Championship. He broke India’s Rishabh Pant’s record of 146 runs against England in 2022. Apart from this, Rizwan has become the second batsman for Pakistan to score a century in one innings of a Test match and a half-century in the second innings. Earlier, Sarfaraz Ahmed had done this in the year 2023.