Babar, Shaheen near WTC milestones in Bangladesh Test series

Pakistan will host Bangladesh for the two-match Test series starting from August 21. The Test series is part of World Test Championship (WTC).

The first Test match will commence on August 21 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium and the final Test match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi.

Pakistan star pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi will be looking to create history during the series as he is just nine wickets away from 100 WTC scalps.

Shaheen will become the first pacer to take 100 wickets in the WTC for Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam also have a great chance to reach a World Test Championship (WTC) milestone.

Babar has scored 2,661 runs, the most by any Pakistani, in the history of WTC and is just 339 runs away from the elusive 3000 club.

The right-handed batter could become just the fifth player to complete three thousand runs in WTC history.

Bowlers with the most wickets in WTC.

• Shaheen Shah Afridi – 91
• Naseem Shah – 51
• Yasir Shah – 41
• Noman Ali – 39
• Abrar Ahmed – 38

Most runs in WTC history

• Joe Root — 4,598 runs in 55 matches
• Marnus Labuschagne — 3,904 runs in 45 matches
• Steve Smith — 3,486 runs in 45 matches
• Ben Stokes — 3,101 runs in 48 matches
• Usman Khawaja — 2,686 runs in 32 matches
• Babar Azam — 2,661 runs in 29 matches