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Debutant Tayyab Arif smashes Pakistan's fastest Test-debut fifty as hosts reach 214-3 at tea against Sri Lanka

Twenty-year-old Tayyab Arif struck 57 off 51 balls — the fastest fifty on Test debut by a Pakistani — as a new-look Pakistan reached 214 for 3 at tea on day one of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi, with captain Babar Azam also making 50.

Sports · 9 Nov 2026, 3:55 pm