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PAKISTAN DIARY

SPORTS REPORTER from Karachi
Cricket
Finally the spectators turned up to watch the final act in Karachi yesterday. The nearly 2,000 holiday crowd at the National Stadium cheered as the new-look Pakistan team romped to a seven-wicket victory to go one-up in the three-match Test series against Bangladesh.
Although international cricket has returned to Pakistan after a long break of 16 months, surprisingly the turnout was relatively small over the past four days.
The knowledgeable Karachi fans stayed away not because of the stifling heat but perhaps at the quality of opposition. But those who stayed at home certainly missed out on five days of absorbing cricket.
The reason for bigger numbers at the imposing venue in the port city on Sunday was because it was a weekly holiday. Until 1998 Pakistanis began weekends on Friday.
HAMEED JOINS ROWE
Yasir Hameed became only the second batsman in Test history to
score hundreds in both innings as a debutant.
The 25-year-old from Peshawar hit 170 in the first innings and 105 in the second against Bangladesh in the first Test in Karachi to join West Indies great Lawrence Rowe.
Rowe hammered 214 and 100 against New Zealand in Kingston, Jamaica way back in 1971-72. .
Hameed entered the record books 15 minutes after the first drinks break on the final day when he drove left-arm spinner Mohammad Rafique.
Interestingly, five years earlier on the same ground, Hameed scored a pair on his first-class debut.
It took him five one-day internationals before playing in his Test.
He is also the fourth Pakistani to have scored centuries in both innings of a Test match after legendary Hanif Mohammad, Javed Miandad and Wajahatullah Wasti.
Hanif scored 111 and 104 against England in Dhaka in 196162. He was followed by Miandad who made 104 and 103 not out against England in Hyderabad in 1984-84.
Wasti was the last player for Pakistan to achieve the distinction
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when he scored 133 and 121 not out against Sri Lanka at the Ghaddafi Stadium in 1998-99.
Overall it was the 53rd instance of scoring hundreds in both innings of a match.
For the record former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar stands alone. The little master has done it thrice.