Shan Masood, the captain of Pakistan’s Test team, has achieved an unfortunate milestone with the lowest average among top-order batters in the team’s history, highlighting a difficult phase in his career.
Since making his Test debut against South Africa in Abu Dhabi in October 2013, Masood’s performance has been inconsistent, although he has been a mainstay in the team since 2022.
Over the past two years, he has scored just 406 runs at an average of 25 in 7 matches.
Overall, Masood has accumulated 1,798 runs at an average of 28.09 from 64 innings across 34 Test matches, including 4 centuries and 9 half-centuries.
This is the lowest average for any Pakistani batter with at least 50 innings in positions 1 to 7.
Former captain and wicketkeeper-batter Moin Khan, who played from 1990 to 2004, has the second-lowest average with 2,741 runs at 28.55 from 104 innings in 69 Test matches, including 4 centuries and 15 half-centuries.
Kamran Akmal, another former wicketkeeper-batter who played from 2002 to 2010, ranks third with 2,648 runs at an average of 30.79 from 92 innings in 53 matches, including 6 centuries and 12 fifties.