Mohammad Abbas Achieves 100 Test Wickets, Pakistan Struggles in Cape Town

Mohammad Abbas 100 Test Wickets: If Team India gets defeated by Australia, then the situation of neighbouring Pakistan is also not good in the second Test (SA vs Pak) against South Africa.

In reply to South Africa’s 615 runs in the first innings, on the third day, the Pakistan team went off track and at one point lost its 5 wickets for just 144 runs.

Mohammad Abbas Reaches 100 Test Wickets with Unique Record

in South Africa’s first innings, 34-year-old pacer Mohammad Abbas could take only one wicket, but he has done a great feat. Abbas (Mohammad Abbas’s 100th wicket) took three wickets in South Africa’s first innings in the Test being played in Cape Town and also achieved a century of wickets. And after this, when the statisticians turned the pages of the book, then at least on the scale of a hundred wickets, Abbas did that feat, which no bowler could do before in history.

It is certainly not a coincidence, but a skill that 35 out of 100 wickets of Mohammad Abbas have come as LBW. 277 bowlers in history have taken at least 75 Test wickets as LBW.

But Abbas’s percentage is the highest. Based on at least 100 Test wickets, Abbas has taken 35 per cent of wickets as LBW. After him comes Australia’s Terry Alderman, whose LBW percentage is 34.11%. Terry took 58 out of 170 wickets in his career as LBW

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South Africa Piles on the Pressure

It is very difficult for Pakistan to escape from the jaws of defeat in Cape Town. South Africa put a heavy burden of runs on Pakistan by scoring 615 runs in the first innings. For them, 28-year-old left-handed opener Rilton played an innings of 259, while captain Bavuma scored 106 and wicketkeeper Verne scored 100 runs.

Abbas and Salman Aga took three wickets each, while Mir Hamza and Khurram Shahzad took two wickets each. But later Pakistan lost its 5 wickets at 144. And it does not seem that the visiting team will be able to avoid the follow-on.