Source. Bilal Aslam of Germany via The Cricket Monthly.
Faisal bin Mubashir thought he could make it. On January 4, 2014, he thought he could pull through to a double-century. “The season was going very well, but I had [been getting out in] the nervous 90s,” he recalls as we chat at the ground of the club he used to play for, two years on from that innings. He was playing for Bahawalpur against Quetta in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, his 13th first-class match since his debut in October 2011. In the previous four games, he had three times missed out narrowly on a maiden hundred, dismissed for 90, 94 and 81. His memory of the match is fresh. “The first hundred in first-class cricket is a big honour. Sometimes, if you’re well connected, you get to play for Pakistan if you score a hundred.”