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A defeat after declaring, and Bangladesh's first Test win over Pakistan

Mushfiqur Rahim completed his 11th Test century Associated Press

5 - Instances of Pakistan scoring more than 448 in their first innings and going on to lose the Test match, as they did in Rawalpindi. Their highest first-innings total in a defeat also came at the same venue - 579 against England in December 2022. However, four of those five defeats came when they batted second in the Test. When they have batted first, only once have they scored more than 448 and lost: in Galle in 2014, when they made 451 and went on to lose by seven wickets against Sri Lanka.

2 - Previous instances of a team losing a Test after a first-innings declaration having lost six or fewer wickets. One of those was under bizarre circumstances in 1976, when India lost five batters to injury against West Indies in Jamaica. The only other instance was in Adelaide in 2006, when England lost after declaring at 551 for 6 in their first innings.

0 - Previous instances of Bangladesh winning a Test after conceding a 400-plus total in the first innings. The previous highest was 374, by Zimbabwe in Chattogram in 2014.

14 - Tests taken by Bangladesh to register their first win against Pakistan. They have now won Tests against nine out of 11 teams; they remain winless only against South Africa (14 Tests, 12 defeats) and India (13 Tests, 11 defeats). They have needed more than 14 Tests to register their first wins against two other teams - Sri Lanka (18 Tests), and New Zealand (16).

9 - Home Tests without a win for Pakistan, since the start of 2022. Their last home win was against South Africa in 2021.

5 - Losses for Pakistan in those nine home games - three against England, and one each against Australia and Bangladesh. This is the first time they have lost five matches in any nine-game stretch at home; their previous worst was four losses. Pakistan's longest stretch without a home win is 11 Tests, between 1969 and 1975, but they lost only one of those 11 matches. Nine Tests is their second-longest home sequence without a win.

2 - Successive Tests lost by Pakistan in Rawalpindi despite posting 400-plus totals in their first innings. It is the first instance of this happening to any team at home in consecutive matches at a venue.

191 - Mushfiqur Rahim's score in Bangladesh's first innings, the sixth-highest score by a Bangladesh batter in Tests. Four of Bangladesh's top six scores, in fact, are by Mushfiqur.

9/245 - The combined bowling figures of Bangladesh's spinners in the match. Mehidy Hasan Miraz took 5 for 101 and Shakib Al Hasan 4 for 144. In contrast, Pakistan, who went in with four fast bowlers, had to rely on Salman Ali Agha for spin, and he returned figures of none for 145 in 42.3 overs. The fast bowlers from the two teams had similar figures - 9 for 374 for Pakistan, and 7 for 322 for Bangladesh.