Mushfiqur Rahim 6000 Test Runs for Bangladesh Cricket Team: The first test match between Bangladesh and South Africa is being played in Dhaka. By the end of the second day’s play, Bangladesh had scored 101 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in the second innings. The host team is still 101 runs behind South Africa, but in the meantime Mushfiqur Rahim has performed a historic feat. He has become the first Bangladeshi cricketer to score 6,000 runs in the history of Test cricket. He is currently playing after scoring 31 runs in the second innings of the Dhaka Test match.
Mushfiqur Rahim played his first international match for Bangladesh on 26 May 2005. Rahim was able to score 19 runs in the first innings of that match and only 3 runs in the second innings. Now, after traveling a long distance of almost two decades, he has touched the figure of 6,000 runs in the 172nd over of his Test career. Before the start of the match against South Africa, he had scored 5,961 runs in 92 matches. In the first innings of the Dhaka Test, he was out after scoring just 11 runs, but in the second innings he completed six thousand runs after scoring 28 runs. Apart from this, Rahim has also scored 7,792 runs in 271 ODI matches and 1,500 runs in 102 T20 matches for Bangladesh. If we look at the statistics, 11 batsmen from India and more than 10 batsmen from England and Australia have set the record of scoring more than 6,000 runs in Test cricket.
Only 6,000 runs in 24 years
Bangladesh played its first test match against India in the year 2000. In that encounter, Team India had won by 9 wickets. That debut match is now 24 years old, but it is a very disappointing fact that in the span of 24 years, only one batsman from Bangladesh has been able to reach 6,000 Test runs. After him in this list comes the name of Tamim Iqbal, who scored 5,134 runs while playing 70 Test matches in his career.
Highest test runs for Bangladesh
Mushfiqur Rahim – 6,003 runs
Tamim Iqbal – 5,134 runs
Shakib Al Hasan – 4,609 runs
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