betvisa888 liveENG v PAK, 2nd Test: Cricket world hails Shan Masood for his record century

With all the fanfare and spotlight blazing straight on the silhouette of a certain Babar Azam, it must have taken something special, extraordinary for the opener Shan Masood to hog the limelight at Old Trafford.

Masood exhibi🅘ted tremendous grit and flamboyance to lit up the cricket aficionado with a terrific century on an otherwise dark and gloomy day in Manchester. Azam largely played a supporting role to the protagonist Maso🉐od.

The crux of Pakistan’s total of 326 in the first innings was built on Masood’s career-best 156 of 319 balls. The century was third on a trot – following his knock of 135 against Sri Lanka in 2019 and 100 against Bangladesh in February 2020.

The 30-years-old also became the first opener from Pakistan to reach a three-figure score since Saeed Anwar ach♋ieved this feat at The Oval in 1996.

Masood looked unflustered by the much-talked-about hostility of English pacers as he dealt with all of them with an ease and nonchalance rarely seen from theও subcontinental batsmen.

After posting a daunting total on board, Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Abbas made no mistake to get some early wickets and put the home team on the backfoo🦩t. The likes of Ben Stokes, Rory Burns and Dominic Sibley walked back to pavilion inside the first ten overs, reducing England to 12/3.

England will resume their first innings on Day 3 from 92/4 with Jos Buttler and Oll♍ie Pope o💝n the crease.

The cricketing fraternity was pleased with Masood’s innings as they showered praise for the southpaw on Twitter.

Here are some of the best Tweets:

Wonderful ton by , made England pay for the mi♔ssed chances. Important contribution from and . Pakistan have a good score on the b🐻oard for their bowlers to bowl to. Game on.
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)

Welll played 💯 patient and class 🙌�♚�🙌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19)

Just love the organizational skills of Shan Masood this innings. Great judgment in playing adꦅequately forward or back to theꦜ length.
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)

Well done . Congratulations on a memorableꦛ century in tough conditions.
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph)

Congratulations …..Brilliant Century.. keep it up!👍🏻
— Kamran Akmal (@KamiAkmal23)

Ve🌸ry pleased for♑ Shan Masood, a man who has fought hard for his opportunity! 💯
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket)

What a determined innings ! ! Congratulations on your #100 – showed great resilience & what a fight back. Well done young man.
— Azhar Mahmood (@AzharMahmood11)