{"id":474,"date":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:52:03","slug":"bangladesh-pakistan-test-evenly-poised-after-mehidy-takes-5-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh-Pakistan Test evenly poised after Mehidy takes 5 wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHAKA: Mehidy Hasan Miraz claimed five wickets to give Bangladesh a slender lead after Pakistan debutant Azan Awais hit 103 on a rain-hit third day of the first Test on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan made 386 all out in response to Bangladesh\u2019s first innings total of 413 in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh closed the day on 7-0 in their second innings to increase their lead to 34 runs, after bad light ended play with Mahmudul Hasan Joy unbeaten on two and Shadman Islam yet to score.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed Azan, who resumed on 85, completed his hundred off 153 balls to become the 14th Pakistani and sixth player overall to score a century on debut against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>He became pace bowler Taskin Ahmed\u2019s 50th Test wicket after captain Najmul Hossain Shanto caught the opener at slip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very blessed feeling for me because I know it\u2019s my debut match and I performed really well for my country,\u201d a visibly moved Azan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was going in to bat I was a little nervous, but I performed very well for my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan lost wickets at regular intervals but kept coming back as Abdullah Fazal, another debutant, scored 60, Salman Agha made 58 and Mohammad Rizwan chipped in with 59.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan and Agha made 119 for the sixth wicket, one of three century partnerships for the visitors, before rain wiped out a large portion of the afternoon session.<\/p>\n<p>The pitch offered more assistance to the spinners when play resumed and Mehidy exploited the conditions to perfection, with Pakistan bowled out in 100.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Mehidy, who bowled 38 overs of his off-spin, was rewarded for his patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a true wicket like this, as a spinner my mindset is that I will not get help from the pitch in the first three days,\u201d Miraz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I bowl in good areas and the batter makes a mistake, then I have a chance of taking wickets. My job was to make sure I did not concede runs from one end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second innings I will come as an attacking bowler when the ball is turning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Mehidy Hasan Miraz claimed five wickets to give Bangladesh a slender lead after Pakistan debutant Azan Awais hit 103 on a rain-hit third day of the first Test on Sunday. Pakistan made 386 all out in response to Bangladesh\u2019s first innings total of 413 in Dhaka. Bangladesh closed the day on 7-0 in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}