DHAKA, Nov 30, 2018 (BSS)- Mushfiqur Rahim touched another milestone as he
become the second Bangladeshi batsman to reach 4,000 Test runs during the
second Test against West Indies on Friday.
Needing only eight runs to reach the feat before the play he reached the
landmark when he cut legspinner Devendra Bishoo off the back foot in the 65th
over. He scored 14 runs before perished to Shermon Lewis.
Earlier this year, Tamim Iqbal had become the first to reach the feat in
West Indies.
The diminutive wicket keeper batsman Mushfiqur, who made his debut in 2005
as a precocious 16-year old against England in Lord’s, has built himself as
one of the best batsmen in the team, often spoken of in the same breath as
Tamim.
He was the first Bangladesh batsman to score a Test double-hundred, against
Sri Lanka in 2013, and earlier this month became the first to score two
double-hundreds, reclaiming Bangladesh’s highest individual score with his
unbeaten 219.
He has Bangladesh’s best overseas record in Tests too, having scored the
most runs as well as the most hundreds. He has only scored two hundreds at
home.
Mushfiqur is already among Bangladesh’s first three batsmen to reach 5,000
ODI runs.