Stats Analysis

Hafeez's best, and Pakistan's best against Bangladesh

Stats highlight from the third day's play of the first Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan in Khulna

Shiva Jayaraman
30-Apr-2015
Mohammad Hafeez's 224 in this match is the highest by a Pakistan batsman against Bangladesh in Tests  •  AFP

Mohammad Hafeez's 224 in this match is the highest by a Pakistan batsman against Bangladesh in Tests  •  AFP

7 Scores of 200 or more made by Pakistan's openers before Hafeez in this match. The last Pakistan opener to hit a double-hundred in Tests was Taufeeq Umar, who hit 236 against Sri Lanka in 2011. This was Hafeez's first double-hundred in Tests.
204* Pakistan's previous highest individual score against Bangladesh in Tests, which was made by Mohammad Yousuf in Chittangong in 2002. Hafeez's 224 is now the highest, and also only the third double-hundred by a Pakistan batsman against Bangladesh.
642 Runs made by Hafeez in his last three Tests, which account for 22.42% of his total career runs. He has scores of 96, 101*, 197, 24 and 224 since the start of the series against New Zealand in November last year. In 38 Tests before that he had scored 2222 runs, including five hundreds and nine fifties. Hafeez's batting average in Tests has made a steep climb to 40.33 from 33.16 in just his last three matches. This is the first time since 2007 that Hafeez's Test batting average has reached 40.
227 Partnership between Hafeez and Azhar Ali - Pakistan's second highest for any wicket against Bangladesh in Tests, and the second double-hundred stand between the two batsmen. They had put on a 287-run stand against Sri Lanka in 2012.
5 Fifty-plus scores by Pakistan's top order (No. 1 to No. 7) in their innings - the third instance of them making five or more fifty-plus scores in six Tests since the start of the series against Australia last year. Before that, there were only 11 such instances in 382 Tests for Pakistan.
1960 The last and the only time a team had a fifty-plus stand from each of it's first-six wickets before Pakistan in this innings. Australia had one century and five fifty stands from their first six wickets against West Indies at the Gabba.
2011 The last time before this Test that Pakistan made a total of 500-plus in the first innings of a Test after fielding first. This was also against Bangladesh in Chittagong, when they declared on a score of 594 for 5.
4 Number of times Pakistan have taken a first-innings lead of 200 or more runs with five or more wickets to spare including this match. The first time Pakistan achieved this was against New Zealand in 1994 in Wellington. The other three instances have all come against Bangladesh.
57 Runs scored off Shakib Al Hassan by Hafeez - the second-highest he has hit off a bowler in a Test innings. Hafeez had scored 65 runs off 106 deliveries off Rangana Herath in the first innings of a Test in Colombo in 2012, which are his highest off any bowler in an innings. Hafeez had a strike rate of 85.07 against Shakib in this innings.

Shiva Jayaraman is a senior sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com