PAKISTAN · MIDDLE-ORDER BATTER · TEST VICE-CAPTAIN

Saud Shakeel

A patient, technically tight left-hander from Karachi, nicknamed ‘Chota Don’. Saud has passed 2,000 Test runs, is Pakistan’s Test vice-captain, and was the team’s top run-scorer on the 2026 tour of England with 204 runs.

CAREER STATISTICS

International career in numbers

Format	Matches	Runs	Average	100s / 50s	Best
Test	26	2,006	42.68	4 / 11	208*
ODI	19	408	27.20	0 / 4	68

Figures from ESPNcricinfo (via Wikipedia), 12 September 2026.

RECORDS & HIGHLIGHTS

Career highlights

208* v Sri Lanka at Galle, July 2023, his maiden Test double century.
A fourth-innings 94 in only his second Test nearly won a tense chase against England in Multan (December 2022).
Player of the Match on his World Cup debut: 68 off 52 balls v Netherlands, October 2023.
Pakistan’s top scorer (204 runs) in the 2026 Test series in England.
Captained Quetta Gladiators in the PSL.

PROFILE

Player profile

Born: 5 September 1995, Karachi
Batting: Left-handed
Bowling: Slow left-arm (occasional)
Debuts: ODI v England, 8 July 2021 · Test v England, 1 December 2022
Teams: Quetta Gladiators (PSL); Yorkshire (2023)
Shirt number: 59