Sarfaraz Ahmed First Century maker Pakistani at Lords

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London, Sarfaraz Ahmed became the first Pakistani wicket keeper batsman, who made century at Lords. There are only two more wicket keeper batsmen, who performed this wonderful record of making century there.

According to the detail, Sarfaraz Ahmed made 105 runs against England at Lords, when Pakistani cricket team was in great trouble and helped the team to make the respectable and fighting total. In this way, he became their first Pakistani and third international player, who made century in the one day international matches. Before this, Jos Butler of England and Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka have performed in the same match during 2014 in this historical cricket ground. Before Sarfaraz, Muhammad Yousaf played the biggest inning from Pakistani side, when he made 88 runs.

When Pakistan cricket team started batting against English cricket team, then the difficulties of Pakistan cricket team were started and they lost three wickets at only 2 runs. Then Sarfaraz Ahmed came on the crease and he saved the match by making three consecutive over fifty runs partnerships with different players. He made 64, 59 and 77 runs in the partnership with Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik and Imad Waseem respectively.

Before Sarfaraz, Sangakkara made two centuries against England on their soil and two other wicket keeper batsmen like Adam Gilchrist and Tim Payne, who made centrue3is against England on their home grounds. He made three centuries in five innings in the one day international matches and he has different score record in the test matches. He played 13 test innings against English but he did not score even a single fifty.

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