Saud Shakeel only behind Sir Don Bradman in batting average charts

Pakistan batter Saud Shakeel’s batting average witnessed a huge boost after a fine century against Bangladesh at Rawalpindi on Thursday. With the ton, he became the second-highest among current Test batters with a minimum of 10 Test innings.

In the first innings, Shakeel smashed 141 runs in 261 deliveries. His knock consisted of 9 boundaries and he scored the runs at a strike rate of 54.02.

Shakeel boosted his Test batting average to 65.17 with his highest score being 208*. His average is higher than the modern batting greats like Steve Smith, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli, considered as 3 of the best players of the modern era, as per ICC.

In the all-time average lists, with a minimum of 20 innings played, Shakeel claims the second spot in batting average stats below the legendary Australian batter Donald Bradman, who boasts of a brilliant average of 99.94.

In 20 innings, Shakeel has scored a total of 1108 runs in Tests and has also equaled batter Saeed Ahmed’s record to become the joint-fastest Pakistan batter to reach 1000 runs in the format. Both completed this milestone in 11 Tests and 20 innings.

Shakeel has the most runs by an Asian batter in the first 20 innings of their Test career. The other Asian players having reached 1,000 runs or more in this span are Mayank Agarwal , Saeed Ahmed , Cheteshwar Pujara , Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vinod Kambli.

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