Shan Masood, South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd Test: The current captain of Pakistan cricket team, Shan Masood has created history. He has become the second Asian captain to play the biggest innings in Test cricket since 2000 on the South Africa tour. The name of Team India’s legendary batsman Virat Kohli comes in the first place. King Kohli had scored 153 runs while touring South Africa as captain in 2018. After him, now Shan Masood has achieved this big achievement. If he had managed to score nine more runs in the second innings of the Cape Town Test, he would have left even Virat Kohli behind. But he missed by just a few runs.

Shan Masood’s magic seen in Cape Town

The Pakistani captain, who could not show much charisma in the first innings of the Cape Town Test, batted heavily in the second innings. Opening the innings for the team, he faced a total of 251 balls. Meanwhile, he managed to play an excellent century inning of 145 runs at a strike rate of 57.77. During this period, 17 fours came from his bat.

Babar Azam also tied the knot

Not only the captain, Pakistan’s experienced batsman Babar Azam is also batting very well on the African tour. You can gauge his excellent batting from the fact that he has scored three half-centuries in the four innings of the first two Test matches. He had a golden opportunity to score a century in the second innings of the Cape Town Test, but he missed it by just 19 runs.

Pakistan is struggling to avoid defeat in Cape Town

Pakistan was forced to play follow-on and till the time of writing the news, it had lost its five big wickets in the second innings. The team’s score after the end of 97 overs is 373 runs at the loss of five wickets. The team is still 48 runs behind the follow-on. Apart from Masood (145), the players who were out are Babar Azam (81), Khurram Shahzad (18), Kamran Ghulam (28) and Saud Shakeel (23).

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