Cricket at Edgbaston: Top 5 individual Test batting performances from the venue

#4. Zaheer Abbas 274 for Pakistan vs England, 3rd June 1971.

The Pak stalwart

Pakistan scored 608/7 decl. and bowled England out for 353, also reducing them to 229/5 on follow-on, by when the time had got over. What could have been a sure-shot defeat was avoided, and the hosts England managed to escape with a draw. Another prime example of where an opponent batsman bossed over the English bowlers, this was way back in 1971. Pakistan was touring the English lands, and they first locked horns at this historic venue.

Winning the toss and batting first, the first wicket fell at 68 and in walked Abbas. The rest of the day and the first session in the next day belonged to him as he amassed 274 runs off 407 balls, including 38 balls. He eventually got dismissed by getting caught by Luckhurst off an Illingworth delivery.