Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan announced his retirement from international cricket in the three-match Test series against Bangladesh Test Series Rishabh Pant broke a big record by scoring a century on the second day of the World Test Championship (WTC). He broke the highest record set by Pant at number 6 batsman in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC). With the help of Rizwan's century, Pakistan declared the first innings at a score of 448 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 113 overs.

Rizwan played the best innings of his career by scoring 171* runs in 239 balls with the help of 11 fours and 3 sixes. He recorded his only third Test century and first century after 890 days. He broke Pant's record for the highest score by a number 6 batsman in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC). Rizwan is the fifth wicketkeeper batsman of Pakistan to score 150 or more runs in an innings of a Test match. Before him, Imtiaz Ahmed, Taslim Arif, Rashid Latif and Kamran Akmal had achieved this feat.

Highest scores by wicketkeepers in WTC history

171* vs Bangladesh – Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan), 2024

146 vs England – Rishabh Pant (India), 2022

141* vs West Indies – Quinton de Kock (South Africa), 2021

141 vs Sri Lanka – Liton Das (Bangladesh), 2022

Apart from Rizwan, Saud Shakeel scored a century of 141 runs with the help of 9 fours in 261 balls. Rizwan and Shakeel shared a 240-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Sam Ayub scored a half-century of 56 runs with the help of 4 fours and a six in 98 balls. For Bangladesh, Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud took 2-2 wickets in the first innings, while Mehdi Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan took 1-1 wickets.

By the end of the second day's play, Bangladesh had scored 27 runs without losing any wicket in 12 overs in the first innings. At the time of stumps on the second day, Shadman Islam was batting on 12 (30) and Zakir Hasan was batting on 11 (42).