5.5 wickets in 3 matches, Hassan Ali equaled Shoaib Akhtar's 17-year record
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Lahore (News Hub update news) Noman Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi made history in
the Harare Test, for the first time in a century both left-arm bowlers became part of the record
of 5.5. Pakistani players have set many records against the weak Zimbabwean team in the
Harare Test.
For the first time in a century, both the left-arm bowlers lost 5.5 wickets in the same match.
Noman Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi shared the wickets of the rival team. No one else's turn
came, so the left-arm bowlers set a unique record.
This is the first time in Pakistan's Test cricket history that three different bowlers have taken
5.5 wickets in a single match, with Shaheen Afridi, Hassan Ali, and Noman Ali sharing the
record, the sixth time in Test cricket overall 3 bowlers performed such a joint feat.
Earlier in the Birmingham Test in 1993, Shane Warren, Paul Rifle, and Tim May had
taken 5.5 wickets. Hassan Ali won the honor of taking 5.5 wickets in 3 consecutive long-
the format matches 17 years later. Take 5.5 wickets in the second match after the first Test
against Zimbabwe, before Shoaib Akhtar had done it in 2004.
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