The first day of the second Test of the series being played between the teams of Pakistan and England was named after Kamran Ghulam. Kamran Ghulam made his Test debut for Pakistan with this match. He made this special occasion more special by scoring a century in the very first innings. He became the 13th batsman of Pakistan to score a century in his debut test. After this inning, everyone is praising him a lot. Now the name of former Pakistan captain Babar Azam has also been added to this list.

Babar praised Kamran Ghulam

Let us tell you, Kamran Ghulam has got a chance to play in place of Babar Azam in this match. Babar was struggling with poor form for some time, hence the selectors took a big decision and included Kamran Ghulam in the team in place of Babar. Kamran Ghulam faced 224 balls and scored 118 runs in the first innings of this match. His innings included 11 fours and 1 six. After seeing this brilliant innings of Kamran, even Babar could not stop himself. He praised him by sharing a story on Instagram. While sharing Kamran's photo, Babar wrote, 'Very well played Kamran.' This post of Babar is now becoming quite viral.

Babar praised Kamran Ghulam. (Photo- instagram/pti)

Kamran Ghulam played record breaking innings

Kamran Ghulam played this century innings while playing at number four. He became only the sixth batsman in the world to score a century while playing at number four in his debut Test. At the same time, for Pakistan, after 48 years, a batsman scored a century at number four in the debut test. Earlier in 1982, Salim Malik had achieved this feat. Apart from this, this has happened after 24 years in international cricket when a batsman scored a century while batting at number four on his Test debut.

Pakistan scored 259 runs on the first day

In this match, Pakistan team won the toss and decided to bat first. But the beginning of the team was nothing special. Pakistan had lost its first two wickets for 19 runs only. After this a good partnership was seen between Kamran Ghulam and Sam Ayub. Both the players made a partnership of 149 runs for the third wicket. During this, Sam Ayub scored 77 runs. Whereas, Mohammad Rizwan returned unbeaten after scoring 37 runs and Salman Agha returned unbeaten after scoring 5 runs. These players will now have the responsibility of taking the team to a big score on the second day.