Azhar Ali hits first day-night ton as Pakistan dominate West Indies
Friday 14 October 2016 15:58, UK
Azhar Ali became the first man to score a century in a day-night Test as Pakistan made 279-1 on day one against West Indies.
Ali (146 no) and Sami Aslam (90) shared a 215 opening stand in Dubai against a visiting attack that struggled to make inroads with the pink ball.
Pakistan's 400th Test is also just a second day-nighter in the five-day game's 140-year history, but there was no sense of a landmark occasion for much of the day after Misbah ul-Haq opted to bat first on a flat pitch.
Ali and Aslam were barely troubled, other than a couple of fruitless leg-before referrals, until the latter swept off-spinner Roston Chase onto his own stumps 10 short of a first Test ton.
By that stage Ali had brought up his 11th, driving Chase to the long-off boundary to make it two centuries in three Tests.
Asad Shafiq came to the crease after Aslam's dismissal and finished unbeaten on 33, with debutants Babar Azam and Mohammad Nawaz among those still to come.
