Shadman fell at the stroke of tea seven runs short of his second Test hundred, when the opener exposed well against the stubborn Pakistani bowling attack for over five-and-a-half hour on third day in Rawalpindi.
The wicket was the most valuable for Pakistan against Bangladesh's predominantly left-handed top order through the day. It was the third time that one of their seamers, bowling around the wicket, had got the ball to nip in from a fullish length and bowl someone through the gate. Mohammad Ali was the successful bowler on this occasion, getting Shadman to attempt a push-drive away from his body. Khurram Shahzad had been the architect behind the two other wickets of this type.
At tea, Bangladesh were 199 for 4, trailing Pakistan's first-innings total by 249 runs.
This was also the second significant moment to coincide with the last ball before a break. Shadman had brought up his half-century on the stroke of lunch with a pulled four off Naseem Shah, and that moment had seemed to illustrate a shift of momentum in Bangladesh's direction, coinciding with the ball losing its shine and batting becoming significantly easier.
Naseem had been the pick of Pakistan's bowlers in the early part of the day, maintaining a hypnotic control over line and length against Bangladesh's entirely left-handed top four while conceding just 15 off his first 12 overs. But he conceded three fours in his last two overs before lunch. Mominul Haque had hit the other two, off successive balls: a cheeky uppercut over the slips followed by a premeditated step back and across to flat-bat a marginally short-of-length ball wide of mid-on.
Shadman and an eye-catchingly fluent Mominul put on 94 for the third wicket, before Shahzad broke the partnership in the fourth over after lunch. Shahzad had generally bowled a fuller length than Pakistan's other three quicks, and drawn Bangladesh's batters onto the front foot more often. On this occasion, Mominul wasn't quite fully forward while defending, and Shahzad extracted just enough seam movement to breach the bat-pad gap.
