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Pakistan's house of horrors grows bigger with series loss to Bangladesh

Shan Masood reacts to dropping Hasan Mahmud in the covers AFP/Getty Images

3 Test series wins for Bangladesh away from home, including the 2-0 victory in Pakistan. Their previous overseas triumphs were a 2-0 win in West Indies in 2009 and a one-off Test victory in Zimbabwe in 2021.

10 Consecutive Test matches at home without a win for Pakistan. This has happened only once before to Pakistan, when they went 11 home Tests without a win between 1969 and 1975.

Only two other teams have had longer winless streaks at home in the last 25 years: Zimbabwe haven't won any of their 14 home Tests since 2013, while Bangladesh were winless in 27 Tests at home between 2005 and 2014 and also did not win any of their first 15 home Tests between 2000 and 2004.

1 Previous instances of Pakistan losing all matches in a home Test series, when England won 3-0 in December 2022.

4 Instances of Pakistan losing a Test at home despite taking a first-innings lead batting first, including the second Rawalpindi Test against Bangladesh where they took a 12-run lead. The previous time this happened was in 2000, when they lost to England in Karachi despite a 17-run lead in the first innings.

10 Wickets that fell to pace in Pakistan's second innings, the first time that Bangladesh's fast bowlers took all ten wickets in a Test innings.

Bangladesh's quicks took 14 wickets in the second Test, equalling the most by their fast bowlers in a Test match. Bangladesh pacers had also taken 14 wickets against Afghanistan in Mirpur last year.

21 Runs scored by Bangladesh's top six in the first innings - the second-lowest aggregate by a team's top six in their first innings of a Test that they went on to win. The lowest is 17 by England's top six in the first innings against Australia in 1887.

5 Pakistan have lost all five Test matches under Shan Masood's captaincy so far - the worst start for a Pakistan captain. Masood is one of eight captains to lose their first five Tests. Four of the previous seven were from Bangladesh - Khaled Mashud (12), Khaled Mahmud (9), Mohammad Ashraful (8) and Naimur Rahman (5), while Zimbabwe's Graeme Cremer (6), New Zealand's Ken Rutherford (5) and West Indies' Kraigg Brathwaite (5) are the other three.