Karachi
\nPakistan skipper Babar Azam seemed upbeat Friday after the Green Shirts successfully restricted New Zealand from winning the Test series in Karachi.
\n\u201cAnother fantastic inning by Sarfaraz bhai. Keep shining,\u201d the skipper wrote on Twitter as the wicket-keeper-batter helped Pakistan draw the match with his magnificent ton.
\nThis was the right-hander\u2019s first hundred since 2014 and fourth overall. Ahmed was also named player of the match and series after scoring 335 runs in four innings, with the help of three fifties and a hundred.
\nDuring the post-match presentation ceremony, Ahmed said: \u201cI was part of the team for four years and despite not getting chances here I was continuing to play well elsewhere. Wanted an opportunity from Allah Almighty and got it.\u201d
\n\u201cI was very tense in the first Test, but the boys and captain gave me confidence. [Last session today] when 140 runs were left, the management said that you need to keep trying to score when the ball is there to hit.\u201d
\n\u201cBut then two wickets fell, and so we changed our style of play. If those two wickets didn\u2019t fall then the result could\u2019ve been something else,\u201d the right-hander said.
\n\u201cIt is a fourth-innings century so it is special, probably my best,\u201d he said when asked if it was the best innings of his career.
\nThe 35-year-old also thanked the crowd in Karachi and requested them to visit the stadium for the ODI series as well, which starts on January 9.
\n\u201cKarachi crowd has always supported me. And always supported the team. Request them to come for the ODIs too,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karachi Pakistan skipper Babar Azam seemed upbeat Friday after the Green Shirts successfully restricted New Zealand from winning the Test series in Karachi. \u201cAnother fantastic inning by Sarfaraz bhai. Keep shining,\u201d the skipper wrote on Twitter as the wicket-keeper-batter helped Pakistan draw the match with his magnificent ton. This was the right-hander\u2019s first hundred since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n