The Bangladeshi cricket team cleanly swept Pakistan by 2-0 in the test series at Pakistan’s home after winning the second test match at Rawalpindi. With this win, Bangladesh handed a defeat to Pakistan that Pakistan and the cricket world as a whole would remember for years to come, as Pakistan has been clean-swept by an Asian team at home for the first time.
When playing Test cricket away from home, Bangladesh hasn’t been the best team. Their lone series victory in the longest format of the game came against the West Indies in 2009 (during a series of two or more Test matches).
In the second Test of the series, Pakistan fell short of expectations despite being eager to recover from a 10-wicket loss in the first Test. Pakistan got a clean sweep in a test series in two years for the second time at home since it had lost 0-3 to England in 2022.
This Pak vs Ban test series was a historic event where Bangladesh achieved several firsts in their test history, and for Pakistan, this series introduced them to numerous lowest points in their cricketing history. Have a look at the records registered during Bangladesh’s Tour of Pakistan 2024 for the two-match Test Series:
1: This is the first time Bangladesh has won a test series against Pakistan, and for Pakistan, it is vice versa; they have tasted their first test series defeat at the hands of Bangladesh.
1: For the first time in Test history, Bangladeshi seamers claimed all ten wickets; they dismissed all batters from Pakistan in the second innings. Bangladesh seamers took 21 wickets in the two Tests, which is the joint-highest total for them in any series, along with 21 in two Tests in Zimbabwe in 2013. Bangladesh seamers have struck every 48.4 balls, the best in a series in which they have bowled at least 100 overs of speed.
3: This is Bangladesh’s third series triumph away from home, including one-off Tests, following a 2-0 victory in the Caribbean in 2009 and a one-off Test in Harare in 2021. Overall, this is their seventh foreign Test triumph, with two in the West Indies, Zimbabwe, and Pakistan, and one each in Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
3: Bangladesh winning the Test after being 26/6 was only the third time a team won after being reduced to six or more wickets for 26 runs or less in their first innings. The first incident occurred in Sydney in 1887, when England rallied from 21/7 to defeat Australia by 13 runs. The second occasion occurred in Kolkata when Pakistan recovered from 26/6 to defeat India by 46 runs in the Asian Test Championship in 1999.
3: Litton Das has scored three centuries when batting at 50/4 or lower. Litton made 114 from 49/4 against Pakistan in Chattogram in 2021 and 141 from 24/5 against Sri Lanka in Mirpur in 2022. He is the first batter to achieve the feat three times while batting sixth or lower, with Asad Shafiq, Jonny Bairstow, and Dhananjaya de Silva doing so twice apiece.
3: Bangladesh’s chase of 185 is the third-highest target successfully chased down by a visiting side in Pakistan. It is also Bangladesh’s third most successful chase, trailing only 215 against the West Indies in St. George’s in 2009 and 191 against Sri Lanka in Colombo PSS in 2017.
9: Pakistan has now lost a home series to each of its nine opponents, the most recent being Bangladesh (Pakistan has yet to host Ireland or Afghanistan). Bangladesh is the only other team to have lost to ten different oppositions at home.
10: Pakistan has now gone ten Tests at home without a victory (six defeats and four draws). It is the longest such streak for a team (excluding Zimbabwe and Bangladesh) in home games since New Zealand’s 12-Test winless stretch from 1994 to 1997. Pakistan has been whitewashed twice in this span, 0-3 by England in 2022 and 0-2 by Bangladesh in this series.
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