Babar Azam's fifty ends in Kusal Mendis' gloves

Sports Central by DRM's Rawalpindi highlights draw an unusually large audience, with Sri Lanka's wicketkeeper involved in three key dismissals.

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Azan Awais edges behind. Tayyab Arif follows, and later Babar Azam does too. Pakistan's opening-day batting at Rawalpindi has its fluent passages, but Kusal Mendis keeps appearing at the end of them.

Sports Central by DRM's highlights of the opening Test against Sri Lanka have drawn about 240,000 views in their first 16 hours, already far beyond the clips channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos. Its live upload and opening-session highlights are also drawing unusually large audiences in their respective formats.

Tayyab supplies the early acceleration. Playing his first Test, he sends a six over the leg-side fence and reaches his half-century with a cover drive. Sri Lanka then removes both openers in consecutive overs: Milan Rathnayake finds Azan's inside edge, before Asitha Fernando dismisses Tayyab.

Babar rebuilds, opening his boundary account through the off side. His half-century arrives with a nudge, but Dilshan Madushanka soon finds the edge that sends him back, with Mendis again completing the catch.

The comments pick up details beyond the scorecard. One viewer compares Tayyab's back-foot punch to Imran Nazir's, while others discuss Lahiru Kumara's deliveries passing the edge and question Sri Lanka's use of spin. Alongside the longer coverage, the channel has also posted a fast-starting Short built around Fernando's unexpected throw toward Saud Shakeel.

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The full highlights and opening-session edit both ran well beyond the channel's usual start for regular videos. The live upload also drew an unusually large audience for that format.

the video's first day

usual first day here

8,560

this video

297,230

subscribers

6,810,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

4,151,288,555

views per day

1,569,220

typical day: 2,170,152

the video

views

241,278

likes

2,188

comments

35

days online

1

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