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Pakistan cricket team captain Shan Masood is batting brilliantly as per his name in the first test against England which started from today. In this match, 151 runs were scored in 177 balls with the help of 13 fours and 2 sixes. Along with this, he also left behind the Indian team's opening batsman Yashvi Jaiswal.
Joe Root scored the most runs in WTC
England's Joe Root, the all-time highest run scorer in the World Test Championship, has now gone so far that no one can catch him quickly. He has scored more than four thousand runs so far. He is close to scoring 5000 runs, whereas no other batsman has even 4000 runs in his name.
Yashasvi Jaiswal's performance in WTC
Yashasvi Jaiswal has played a total of 11 matches so far in the World Test Championship and during this he has scored 1217 runs with his bat. Here his average is 64.05 and he is scoring runs at a strike rate of 71.67. He has scored three centuries and 7 half-centuries so far in this championship. Before the England Test against Pakistan, Shan Masood needed 128 runs to overtake Yashvi Jaiswal, which he achieved in this match.
Shan Masood left Jaiswal behind
Talking about Shan Masood, he has so far scored 1220 runs in 37 innings of 21 matches in the World Test Championship. Here his average is 33.88 and he is scoring runs at a strike rate of 58.65. However, despite scoring so many runs, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shan Masood are still far behind in the World Test Championship.
Jaiswal has a chance to progress in the New Zealand series
The three-match series between Pakistan and England is going on. Whose first match is still going on. Soon, i.e. this month, a three-match Test series is to be played between India and New Zealand. In which Yashasvi Jaiswal will also have a chance to get ahead of Shan Masood. That means this match between Shan Masood and Yashasvi Jaiswal is going to be very interesting. It remains to be seen who wins in the end.