DHAKA, May 11, 2026 (BSS)-Bangladesh batter Mominul Haque's rich vein of form 
saw him struck his fifth consecutive fifty plus score in Test cricket during 
the ongoing first Test against Pakistan at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket 
Stadium today.

Mominul hammered 56 in Bangladesh's second innings on Day 4, bringing up the 
27th half-century of his Test career before being dismissed shortly 
afterwards.

During the process, he got past 5000-run mark, becoming only third Bangladesh 
batter after Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim to reach the milestone.

The left-hander had earlier made 91 in the first innings, extending a 
remarkable sequence that began in the Test series against Ireland in November 
last year.

In that series, Mominul scored 82 in Bangladesh's only innings in Sylhet 
before adding 63 and 87 in the two innings of the Mirpur Test. His scores of 
91 and 56 against Pakistan have now taken his streak of fifty-plus scores to 
five consecutive Test innings.

In doing so, Mominul matched the Bangladesh record jointly held by former 
captain Tamim Iqbal, who achieved five successive fifty plus scores against 
England in 2010.

Tamim's streak included his celebrated centuries at Lord's and Old Trafford 
during Bangladesh's tour of England.

The latest run of consistency also revived memories of Mominul's 
extraordinary stretch between 2013 and 2014 when he scored fifty or more in 
11 consecutive Tests, which is still a Bangladesh record.
 
But despite that unbelievable run, Mominul couldn't break the world record. 
Had he managed another fifty in that sequence, Mominul would have equalled 
the then world record of 12 consecutive Tests with a fifty plus score held at 
the time by South African great AB de Villiers. The mark was later matched by 
England batter Joe Root.

The overall record for scoring at least fifty in consecutive Test innings is 
seven, jointly shared by six cricketers - West Indies pair Everton Weekes and 
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, England's Chris Rogers, 
Zimbabwe's Andy Flower and India's KL Rahul.

Among them, Sangakkara and Weekes converted three of those innings into 
centuries, with one of Sangakkara's hundreds being a triple century against 
Bangladesh.

Mominul now has the chance to emulate that record.