Rahmat Shah and Hashmatullah Shahidi lead the Bulawayo record party

231* runs by Rahmat Shah against Zimbabwe is the highest individual score by an Afghanistan batter in a Test innings. This is only the second double hundred for Afghanistan in Tests after Hashmatullah Shahidi’s 200* against the same team in Abu Dhabi in 2021.

Hundreds for Afghanistan in Tests

361* runs: The unbeaten partnership between Rahmat Shah and Hashmatullah Shahidi is the highest by any wicket for Afghanistan in Tests, bettering the 307 between Asghar Afghan and Shahidi against the same opposition in Abu Dhabi in 2021.

This is also currently the second-highest stand for any wicket against Zimbabwe, after 438 between Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara in 2004. Rahmat and Shahidi went past the 336 between Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagnarine Chanderpaul from last year to take second place. All three have arrived in Bulawayo.

26 first time a wicketless day has taken place in Test Cricket and it is the first time it has happened on Zimbabwean soil. Rahmat Shah (231*) and Hashmatullah Shahidi (141*) became the first pair to remain unbeaten through a day’s play in a Test since Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews did it for Sri Lanka against New Zealand in Wellington in 2018. This is only the second instance in the last 15 years that a team has batted an entire day without losing a wicket

330 runs was scored on the third day’s play in the Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan first test in Bulawayo. This is the 11th instance of 300 plus runs being scored without losing a wicket in a single day in a Test; the last was Day 3 of the 1st Test between West Indies and England at Bridgetown in January 2019.

586 runs is Zimbabwe’s highest innings score in Tests, bettering 563/9d vs. West Indies in Harare in 2001. This is also the highest team total against Afghanistan by any team, bettering India’s 474 runs against them in Bengaluru in 2018.

Highest totals for Zimbabwe in Tests

– Yesterday was the third instance where three Zimbabwe players scored a hundred in a Test innings. Other two instances came for them against Pakistan in 1995 and against Bangladesh in 2001. This was also the first instance where three centuries were registered in a Test innings against Afghanistan.

– In the first innings, Afsar Zazai had four dismissals as wicketkeeper. This is the most by Afghanistan’s designated wicketkeeper in an innings.