• This was the 1658th Test match in cricket history.
• This was the sixth Test match between these two sides. Pakistan have won all six.
• Salman Butt, Farhan Adil and Yasir Ali were making their Test debut. Pakistan have now capped 179 players in Test cricket.
• Pakistan’s first innings total of 175 was the lowest by any side against Bangladesh. The previous lowest was also achieved by Pakistan as they were dismissed for 295 in the first innings of second Test at Peshawar.
• Mohammad Rafique’s first innings figures of five for 36 were the best for Bangladesh against Pakistan. Rafique himself had ended with the figures of five for 118 in the second Test of this series at Peshawar.
• Pakistan’s one wicket win provided the tenth such instance in Test annals. The details :

  Winner Loser  Venue       Series    Inns1       Inn2        Inns3       Inns4
  Eng   Aus   The Oval      1902      Aus   324   Eng   183   Aus   121   Eng   263-9
  SA    Eng   Johannesburg  1905-06   Eng   184   SA     91   Eng   190   SA    287-9
  Eng   Aus   Melbourne     1907-08   Aus   266   Eng   382   Aus   397   Eng   282-9
  Eng   SA    Cape Town     1922-23   SA    113   Eng   183   SA    242   Eng   173-9
  Aus   WI    Melbourne     1951-52   WI    272   Aus   216   WI    203   Aus   260-9
  NZ    WI    Dunedin       1979-80   WI    140   NZ    249   WI    212   NZ    104-9
  Pak   Aus   Karachi       1994-95   Aus   337   Pak   256   Aus   232   Pak   315-9
  WI    Aus   Bridgetown    1998-99   Aus   490   WI    329   Aus   146   WI    311-9
  WI    Pak   St. John's    1999-00   Pak   269   WI    273   Pak   219   WI    216-9
  Pak   BD    Multan        2003      BD    281   Pak   175   BD    154   Pak   262-9
  

• This was the second occasion Pakistan were winning a Test by one wicket. The first was against Australia at Karachi in 1994-95. On that occasion too, Inzamam-ul-Haq was involved in tenth wicket match winning partnership !
• Inzamam-ul-Haq (138*) scored 18th hundred of his career. Only six of them have been scored on home soil.
• Inzamam has played a significant part in Pakistan’s Test wins since making his Test debut. He has aggregated 6440 runs in 88 matches at an average of 49.54.But in ‘won’ matches, his performance is truly remarkable.Inzamam has scored 3561 runs in 38 ‘won’ matches with 13 hundreds at a whopping average of 74.19 !
• Khaled Mahmud’s match figures of seven for 105 were the best match figures by a Bangladeshi bowler. Mohammad Rafique also returned with figures of seven for 116 in this match. Prior to this,four bowlers had six wicket match hauls apiece for Bangladesh.
• At the end of the series
  Pakistan’s overall Test record : played 295, won 90, lost 74, drawn 131.
  Bangladesh’s overall Test record : played 24,won 23, drawn one.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Rajneesh Gupta)