History made in 145-year Test cricket first

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The Blackcaps person go the archetypal squad successful men's Test cricket past to instrumentality the archetypal 2 wickets successful an innings via stumping.

Facing Pakistan successful Karachi, rotation bowler Ajaz Patel took the archetypal scalp erstwhile Abdullah Shafique was stumped by wicketkeeper Tom Blundell for 7 runs successful conscionable the 4th over.

Michael Bracewell followed suit, sending Shan Masood backmost to the pavilion who went retired for conscionable 3 runs.

AS IT HAPPENED: Aussies extremity Day 1 connected apical successful Boxing Day Test

It was the 2nd lawsuit of back-to-back stumpings to commencement a Test lucifer overall.

In 1976, a women's Test betwixt Australia and West Indies started with a treble stumping successful Jamaica.

Imam-ul-Haq was dismissed by Bracewell for 24 and past Saud Shakeel went for 22 disconnected the bowling of freshly minted skipper Tim Southee.

Pakistan, who chose to bat connected the archetypal day, recovered themselves up against the partition astatine 4-110 earlier Babar Azam and Sarfaraz Ahmed settled successful for the afternoon.

However, the aboriginal heroics were rapidly forgotten.

Blackcaps blunder proves costly arsenic Pakistan pounce

New Zealand was made to wage aft Daryl Mitchell dropped Azam connected conscionable 12.

Making the astir of his 2nd chance, the skipper changeable to 161 not retired astatine the extremity the day's play.

It marked conscionable the 2nd lawsuit successful which helium had eclipsed 150 runs successful his Test career.

With time 2 inactive to come, Azam could topple his erstwhile champion precocious people of 196 that helium recorded this twelvemonth astatine the aforesaid venue against Australia.

There was a precocious drawback by the visitors who dismissed Ahmad connected 86, leaving Pakistan connected 5/317 by the adjacent of play with Azam astatine the crease alongside Agha Salman connected three.

Azam, who has enjoyed a affluent vein of form, roseate to the apical of the heap for astir Test runs scored successful a calendar year.

At the extremity of time one, he'd eclipsed England's Joe Root with 1170 runs from conscionable 16 innings and averaging a whopping 78, the highest mean of immoderate subordinate wrong the apical 10.

Azam present lays assertion to the astir 50-plus scores for a skipper successful a calendar year, eclipsing Ricky Ponting's grounds of 24 from 2005.

It was a historical time for cricket arsenic New Zealand returned to Pakistan for the archetypal clip since 2002.

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