RAWALPINDI: As the openers, Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique, score their centuries in Pakistan’s first home Test against Australia, cricketers and fans have started praising the duo for their performance.
Former player Shoaib Akhtar lauded left-handed batsman Imam for his double century and Shafique for his maiden Test century being played in Rawalpindi.
Imam scored his second hundred on the fifth day of the Test and became the 10th Pakistani batsman to score a century in both innings of the Test.
Imam and Shafique have set the record of being the first opening pair to establish a partnership of a hundred runs in both innings in over five decades.
Here’s how fans reacted to their new record.
Imam scored 111 runs while Shafique scored 136 runs.
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