Afghanistan’s total score of 699 against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo is their highest score in this format, surpassing their previous score of 545 for four against Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi in 2021.
Afghanistan needed 10 Test matches to become the first team to score over 600 points, the least of the 10 teams who have scored over 600 points in this format. The previous lowest record was for Pakistan, who made 657 for eight in the 19th match against West Indies in 1958.
246 Hashmatullah Shahidi’s score against Zimbabwe was Afghanistan’s highest individual score in a Test. Shahidi had an unbeaten 200 against Zimbabwe in 2021. Before Shahidi claimed the record, Rahmat Shah broke his unbeaten mark of 234 against Bulawayo.
Five players who converted their first double century into a double ton in Test cricket: Wally Hammond, Rohan Kanhai, Zaheer Abbas, Vinod Kambli and now Shahidi.
On the third day in Bulawayo, Rahmat and Shahidi bowled 95 overs, the third-highest total of any pair to have played all day in a men’s Test.
Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe hit 664 (83 balls over) on the third day against Australia in Melbourne in 1925, while Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor canceled out the first day of the 1989 Nottingham Test. , he recorded 102 overs (612 balls). ).
1 Zimbabwe also recorded the highest Test total during this match. His total of 586 in the first innings was higher than his 563 for nine against the West Indies in Harare in 2001.
The last time both teams achieved the highest Test total in the same men’s Test was in Wellington in 1991 between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. India and West Indies did the same in the 1948 Test match in Delhi.
Australia and England achieved the highest ever Test score in their next match in 1877, and repeated the same result three years later at the Oval in 1880.
A 364 partnership is run between Rahmat and Shahidi for the third wicket. This is Afghanistan’s highest wicket partnership in Test cricket, surpassing Shahidi and Asghar Afghani’s 307 for the fourth wicket against Zimbabwe in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Test.
It is also the second-highest Test wicket partnership against Zimbabwe, after Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara’s 438 for the second wicket in 2004, also in Bulawayo.
Brian Bennett, 21 years and 46 days old, was the age for the Bulawayo Test when he became the youngest player to score a century and take five wickets in a men’s Test match. The youngest player to date was Bruce Taylor, who was 21 years and 236 days old at the start of the 1965 Eden Gardens Test against India.
Bennett becomes the second player to score a century and take five wickets in a Test match for Zimbabwe, after Paul Strang against Pakistan in 1996.
