He also became the first spinner to bag six wickets in the first session on day one
Sampath Bandarupalli25-Jan-20255 Noman Ali became only the fifth bowler to take a hat-trick for Pakistan in men’s Tests and the first spinner to do so. Wasim Akram took a hat-trick in consecutive Tests against Sri Lanka in 1999, while Abdul Razzaq in 2000 and Mohammad Sami in 2002 also took hat-tricks against the same opponents. The last hat-trick by a Pakistan bowler was taken by Naseem Shah against Bangladesh in 2020.ESPNcricinfo Ltd6 Wickets taken by Noman before Lunch on Saturday. He is only the sixth bowler to take six or more wickets in the opening session of a men’s Test. He is the first spinner to bag six wickets in the first session on day one.He is also the first Pakistan bowler to achieve the feat, as only Abrar Ahmed took a five-wicket haul (On debut against England in 2022) previously before lunch on the first day’s play.38y 110d Noman’s age on Saturday, making him the second oldest to claim a hat-trick in men’s Tests. Rangana Herath was 38 years and 139 days old when he took a hat-trick against Australia in 2016.ESPNcricinfo Ltd2 Number of instances of a team’s top three individual scores coming from their No.s 9, 10 and 11 in a men’s Test innings: both by West Indies in the ongoing series against Pakistan.Jomel Warrican (31* at No. 10), Jayden Seales (22 at No. 11), and Gudakesh Motie (19 at No. 9) were the top contributors in West Indies’ first innings in the first Test, while Motie (55 at No. 9), Warrican (36* at No. 11) and Kemar Roach (25 at No. 10) did the same on Saturday.Related
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5 Consecutive Test matches with a five-wicket haul for Noman. Only Sydney Barnes, Charlie Turner and Alec Bedser had a longer streak than Noman, with five-fors in six successive Tests, while Yasir Shah also took five-wicket hauls in five consecutive matches.ESPNcricinfo Ltd41.72 Percentage of West Indies’ first innings total in Multan contributed by their tenth wicket partnership. It is the second highest for West Indies in men’s Tests, behind the 50% by Kemar Roach and Miguel Cummins, who added 50 out of 100 all-out against India in 2019.6 Bowlers to take a hat-trick before lunch on the first day of a men’s Test, including Noman. All the previous five bowlers were pacers only, with the last one being Irfan Pathan against Pakistan in the 2006 Karachi Test.
69 Balls Pakistan needed to take the first seven wickets to fall in the West Indies innings, the third fewest by any team in men’s Tests since 1999. Australia lost their seventh wicket in 56 balls against England in 2015 at Trent Bridge and 64 balls against South Africa in 2011 Cape Town.38 Runs were added by the West Indies before losing their seventh wicket. It is the second-lowest total for any team at the fall of the seventh wicket against Pakistan in men’s Tests, behind the 36 by West Indies in 1986 in Faisalabad. 38 is also the third-lowest total at the fall of the seventh wicket for West Indies in men’s Tests.20 Wickets that fell on Saturday in Multan, the most in a single day’s play in a Test match in Pakistan. The previous highest was 19 wickets on the second day of the first match of the ongoing Pakistan-West Indies series.These are also the most wickets to fall on the opening day of a men’s Test in Asia, surpassing the 18 between India and the West Indies in Delhi in 1987.16 Wickets picked by the spinners on the first day of the Multan Test. These are the most wickets for spin bowlers on the opening day of a men’s Test, bettering the 14 wickets by England and South Africa at Leeds in 1907.
