Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim joins elite centurion membership in one hundredth Test

Bangladesh’s seasoned campaigner Mushfiqur Rahim joined an elite group of batters to have scored a century of their one hundredth Test match. He grew to become the first-ever Bangladesh participant to cross the milestone of taking part in 100 Test matches.

Rahim scored a valiant 106 off 214 deliveries to assist his group to ascendancy within the second Test in opposition to Ireland. Rahim joins the likes of Colin Cowdrey, Javed Miandad, Gordon Greenidge, and Graeme Smith in attaining the historic feat, in response to the ICC web site.

An exception among the many 11 batters who’ve finished the aforementioned is ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting, who scored centuries in each innings of his one hundredth Test match in opposition to South Africa in Sydney again in 2006.

The newest batters to have finished so earlier than Rahim had been Joe Root (2021) and David Warner (2022). Having gained the toss and elected to bat first, Bangladesh established a agency hand by ending Day 1 in Dhaka with 292 runs on the board on the lack of 4 wickets.

Rahim completed unbeaten at 99. The 38-year-old would cross previous triple digits early on Day 2 for the thirteenth time in his Test profession. His innings, laced with 5 boundaries, have put the hosts in a promising place to comb the two-match collection.

The hosts had nabbed a victory by an innings and 47 runs within the first Test in Sylhet to go 1-0 up within the collection.