History Repeats: Pakistan Matches India’s 48-Year-Old Unwelcome Test Cricket Record

Pakistan lost their inaugural Test match against Bangladesh on Sunday. This loss occurred in Rawalpindi, their native country.

Bangladesh gained a 117-run lead in their first innings and Pakistan lost the match despite declaring their first innings at 448/6. After Pakistan fell to 146 in their second innings, Bangladesh easily reached the 30-run objective.

Bangladesh has won against Pakistan for the first time in 14 meetings with this triumph.

With this defeat, a team has now lost after declaring their first innings in Test cricket history for the seventeenth time in history.

It’s ironic because Pakistan was the first team to lose like such. They declared at 387/9 in a 1961 Test match against England in Lahore, but lost by five wickets. Pakistan has already suffered three such losses, most recently in Rawalpindi. Prior to this, they declared at 443/9 in the first innings of the 2016 Melbourne Test, but lost to Australia. In a Kingston Test match in 1976 against the West Indies, India also suffered a similar fate.

India lost by 10 wickets despite declaring at 306/6. The defeat of Pakistan by Bangladesh in Rawalpindi is similar to India’s 1976 defeat.

In an attempt to shield the tailenders from the West Indies’ quick bowlers on a hazardous wicket, captain Bishan Singh Bedi declared India’s opening innings at 306 for 6.

But in the end, India was defeated by ten wickets. As of right now, Pakistan and India are the only teams to lose by ten wickets following the declaration of their first innings.

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