When the target is 185, history is in favor of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh set a target of 185 runs in the second Test in Rawalpindi. Did Bangladesh ever win by chasing so many runs in the fourth innings of the Test? The answer is yes. Not once, but twice, Bangladesh won the Test by achieving a bigger target than this.

First time in 2009 against West Indies in Grenada. In the second Test of the series, Bangladesh won the Test series for the first time outside the country with the target of 216 runs with 4 wickets in hand. After losing 4 wickets for 67 runs, he went to the wicket and played an amazing innings of 96 runs off 97 balls. In that match, Shakib Al Hasan, who played the first match as the captain of Bangladesh, led the team to victory.

The next incident was against Sri Lanka in 2017. That Colombo match was Bangladesh's 100th Test match. Bangladesh celebrated the occasion by winning that milestone match. Mushfiqur Rahim's team's target in that match was 191 runs. Opener Tamim Iqbal's innings of 82 runs made Bangladesh's journey easier. Bangladesh won this match by 4 wickets.

6 times in Tests, Bangladesh has won 6 times after getting a target of 215 runs or less. These are the six wins of Bangladesh in the run chase.

In the 144th Test game, Bangladesh chased 40 runs in the fourth innings before this time. Only six times in these 40 Tests have Bangladesh scored 215 runs or less. Bangladesh won those six matches. Twice, however, Bangladesh only got the target of 30 and 40 runs. The latest of which was in the first Test of the series in Rawalpindi last month. Nazmul Hossain's team achieved the target of 30 runs in that match with 10 wickets in hand.

Bangladesh lost 29 of the 40 runs chased before this test and drew 5. In 2005, Bangladesh won the series for the first time by saving the match by batting 142 overs in the fourth innings against Zimbabwe at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka.

Bangladesh also has a chance to upset Pakistan in the Test. If Bangladesh wins, it will be the fourth time in the 24-year Test history that Bangladesh have overwhelmed their opponents. Bangladesh has previously beaten the West Indies twice and Zimbabwe once in the Test series. In 2009, Bangladesh won its first Test series outside the country by defeating the West Indies 2-0. Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe in a 3-match series in 2014 before thrashing the Caribbean again in 2018 after 9 years.