The longest innings in cricket history, this player became a rock in front of the bowlers after batting for 16 hours.

New Delhi: In the current era of instant cricket, the popularity of the Test format has declined rapidly. After the success of T20, most of the fans have also lost interest in Test cricket. Today, of course, experiments like T20, T10 and The Hundred are being done in cricket, but Test cricket has its own identity and all the formats that have been created in this game till now are the contribution of this Test. This is the reason that even today there are such anecdotes and stories related to Test cricket, which fans will be surprised to know about.

One such story is that of former Pakistani legend Hanif Mohammad, when he made the bowlers cry by batting for 16 hours. This incident happened in the year 1958 when a test match was played between Pakistan and West Indies in Bridgetown. In this match, Pakistani batsman Hanif Mohammad batted for 970 minutes which is 16 hours 10 minutes. Even today this is the longest innings in Test cricket. In this batting, he scored 337 runs for Pakistan.

West Indies-Pakistan match was drawn

If we talk about this match with the historic innings of Hanif Mohammad, it was a draw. In the match, the West Indies team, batting first, declared the innings by scoring 579 runs for 9 wickets with the help of Everton Weeks' 197 runs and Conrad Hunte's 142 runs. In response to this score of West Indies, the entire Pakistan team was reduced to 106 runs in 42.2 overs. In such a situation, West Indies gave him follow-on. After getting follow-on, Pakistan team came out to bat in the second innings. Hanif Mohammad once again started the innings.

In the first innings, Hanif was out after scoring only 17 runs, but this time he came on the field in a mood to do something else. During this, Hanif got excellent support from Imtiaz Ahmed who scored 91 runs. In this way, on the 5th day of the game, with Hanif's triple century, Pakistan declared its innings by scoring 657 runs for 8 wickets. Based on the scores of first and second innings, Pakistan gave a target of 185 runs to West Indies. Chasing the target, the West Indies team was able to score only 28 runs when the end of the day was finally announced, due to which the match was drawn.