Naseem Shah picked up 3-93 and fellow spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi grabbed two late wickets to finish with 2-88. The two other seamers – Khurram Shahzad and Mohammad Ali – claimed two wickets apiece.
“The weather is extremely hot and we didn’t get the kind of help from the wicket as we had expected,” Naseem said. “We need to think about how to extract home advantage because you have to find a way to produce results from these games, otherwise you’re not utilizing home advantage.”
All-rounder Salman Ali Agha (41) completed the most overs, after Pakistan opted not to go with a specialist slow bowler.
Mushfiqur counter-attacked the offspinner, who ended up with 0-136.Salman was unlucky not to be among the wickets as Babar Azam spilled a catch at leg slip when Mushfiqur was on 150. Wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan also couldn’t hold onto a legside catch off Mehidy when he was on 52.
In addition, Salman dropped Mehidy off Afridi before finally holding onto the batter’s edge in the slips to make amends for his earlier lapse.
Resuming on 316-5, Shah had Litton Das (56) caught behind inside the first hour, but Mushfiqur and Mehidy kept the bowlers at bay.
Mushfiqur was on 59 when he overturned umpire Richard Kettleborough’s lbw decision through a television referral before Shah beat Das with extra pace.
It ended an enterprising 114-run partnership between Litton and Mushfiqur.
Mushfiqur raised his century in the penultimate over before lunch when he swept Salman for two.
