Pakistan-Bangladesh Test series averages: Younus, Rehman claim top honours

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Younus Khan scored the highest number of runs while Abdur Rehman claimed the highest number of wickets in the just concluded two Test match series between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Bangladesh which the former won 2-0.
The Pakistani batsman scored 265 runs at an average of 265.00 and a strike rate of 62.50 with one double century in three innings of two matches. He hit 22 fours and four sixes in this series.
Shakib Al Hasan took the number one position for Bangladesh. The left-hand middle order batsman scored 209 runs at 52.25 and at a strike rate of 60.23 with one century and one fifty in four innings of two matches. He hit 25 fours in four innings.
Abdur Rehman, who recorded his best bowling on the final day of the second Test match, took the first sport among the bowlers. The slow left-arm orthodox bowler claimed 11 wickets at an average of 19.45 and an economy rate of 2.59 in four innings of two matches.
Shakib Al Hasan was the most successful bowler for the hosts. The slow left-arm orthodox bowler claimed seven wickets at an average of 35.71 and an economy rate of 2.69 in three innings of two matches. Five centuries were scored in the series, four from Pakistan and one from Bangladesh.
Younus Khan (200 not out), Mohammed Hafeez (143), Taufeeq Umar (130) and Asad Shafiq (104) made hundreds for Pakistan while Shakib Al Hasan (144) scored the lone century for the hosts.
Just one bowler, Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, claimed a five-wicket haul in this series. He did the same in Pakistan’s first innings in the second Test match.
Pakistan have won the Test series against Bangladesh for the fourth time. They have won all eight matches against Bangladesh.