Azhar Ali becomes fourth Pakistani to hit a triple-century

DUBAI/KARACHI: Opening batsman Azhar Ali became the only 4th Pakistani batsman to score a triple century in Test Cricket with an unbeaten 302 in the first innings of the first Test against West Indies in Dubai.

Azhar joined Hanif Mohammad, Inzamam ul Haq and Younis Khan in Pakistan’s club of triple-centurion.

He batted for around 11 hours (658 minutes), faced 469 deliveries to reach the magical figure of 300 by hitting two sixes and 23 fours.

This also made Azhar Ali to score the first man to score triple century in a day-night Test, earlier he also became the first man to score a century and a double-century in a day-night Test match.

During his way to 302* Azhar Ali also completed 4,000 runs of his Test career. He reached this milestone by taking 278th run of his innings, which made him 10th Pakistani batsman to complete 4000 runs in Test Cricket.

The triple century scored by Azhar on Friday was overall 29th score of 300+ in Test Cricket, while he was the 25th batsman and 15th opening batsman to do so.

302* is also the second highest individual score to be scored by an opening batsman from Pakistan. The chard is led by Hanif Mohammad with his memorable and history 337, coincidently, also against West Indies.