The ball is full and wide. Babar Azam presses forward and drives it through the cover. He's cheered, pretty much on every shot he plays.
For cricket viewers over the world, this might be an ordinary sight but not for Pakistan fans. They've waited a long time for this, a decade to be exact.
Their rented home, UAE, might've given them crowd support in big numbers sometimes, but it doesn't match the one Pakistan team is getting here.
It's the 5th day of the Test match. And the rain hasn't even allowed a single innings. Pakistan team is yet to bat. But thr Sun is out, beautiful. And the stadium is filled with people like it's the decider of a white ball series.
On day 5, Sri continued with Dhananjaya de Silva in the quest for a hundred. He makes it and they declare, so Pakistan can have a bat.
Shan Masood times a full toss straight into the hands of mid-off.
Abid Ali comes on the crease. He's been stacking up runs for Pakistan A team and in the domestic setup and this is the time. He's so thankful that he raises his head upto the sky even afyer getting off the mark.
They survive till lunch and his head is again up. This has been a long awaited debut for him. This might tell you that he's on debut but his drives won't. They look like the work of art of connoisseur.
Azhar Ali chips one up and goes, it's been a long time since he made a fifty. And here's the moment, Babar Azam, the heartbeat of Pakistan cricket nowadays, steps in. The crowd goes wild to welcome him.
Then, Babar, along with Abid Ali, make crowd cheer again and again with their strokes. Abid reaches century and his head is up. He's set a record, becoming the only batsman to have hit hundreds on both his Test and ODI debut.
Babar joins him and raises his bat. It has become a Test which would not yield any result but people have got what they came for.
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