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Historic 80s+ for Pakistan's top five

Stats highlights from the second day of the first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, in Abu Dhabi

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
10-Nov-2014
Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan congratulate each other, Pakistan v New Zealand, 1st Test, Abu Dhabi, 2nd day, November 10, 2014

Misbah-ul-Haq scored his third consecutive ton, while Younis Khan scored his fourth in five innings  •  AFP

1 Number of instances where all of the top-five batsmen have made 80-plus in the same Test innings. This is the fifth time that all of Pakistan's top five have made 50-plus scores.
2 Number of centuries Misbah-ul-Haq had scored after turning 40 before today - this was his third ton after 40. Jack Hobbs, with eight hundreds, is the only player with more hundreds than Misbah after the age of 40.
3 Number of 150-plus partnerships during Pakistan's innings, a first for the team. In all Test cricket, this has happened seven times.
4 Number of back-to-back Test innings where Pakistan have declared, a first for Pakistan. The longest sequence is six consecutive declarations, by England in 2009. Prior to Pakistan's first innings in this Test, they had declared in the last three innings of the preceding series against Australia.
5 Number of Pakistan players, including Misbah-ul-Haq, who have made three consecutive 100-plus scores in Tests. The other four others are Younis Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar and Mohammad Yousuf. Younis' hundred in this innings was his fourth in five innings.
189 Average runs per wicket during Pakistan's first innings. They scored 566, losing only three wickets. This is Pakistan's third-best for a completed Test innings. Their best is 194 runs per wicket, when they declared their innings after posting 581 for 3 against India in 1983.
50.8 Misbah's career batting average in Tests. He breached the 50-mark for the first time during his knock of 102 not out, at the age of 40 years and 166 days.
12 Number of batsmen who have been dismissed hit-wicket after scoring a Test century - Ahmed Shehzad is the first Pakistan batsman it has happened to. Australia's Bill Ponsford is the only player to have been dismissed hit-wicket twice after scoring a hundred.
22 Ahmed Shehzad's age, making him the youngest Pakistan opener to make a 150-plus score in Tests. Prior to Shehzad, Hanif Mohammad held this record, after his famous 337 against West Indies in 1958, at the age of 23.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant