Mushfiqur Rahim topples Tamim Iqbal to become Bangladesh’s all-time highest run-getter

Chennai: Mushfiqur Rahim achieved a historic feat the total way at some stage in the ongoing first Test against India on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here on Saturday as he surpassed Tamim Iqbal’s run tally to change into Bangladesh’s all-time very best run-getter in international cricket.

Rahim, who played a knock of 13 ahead of Ravichandran Ashwin brushed off him the total way at some stage in the final word session of Day Three, has accumulated 15,205 runs including 20 centuries and 82 fifties in 464 matches across formats. During the past, former captain Tamim Iqbal held the record of most run-getter for Bangladesh with 15,192 runs in 387 games including 25 hundreds and ninety four half of-centuries.

Veteran all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is 0.33 on the list with a tally of 14,701 runs in 446 matches with 14 centuries and a hundred fifties. He is currently no longer out on six and can resume his innings together with captain Najmul Hossain Shanto (fifty one*) on Sunday as they chase a monumental target of 515 to win the match.

Contained within the first innings, India’s premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah removed Rahim for eight and returned with the figures of 4-50 to bundle out the visiting side for 149 on Friday.

Earlier the total way at some stage in the day, double hundreds from Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill allowed Rohit Sharma to declare the second innings for 287/four the total way at some stage in the second session of the day.

Gill, after bagging a duck the total way at some stage in the first innings, led India’s charge with a fine 119 no longer out, laced with 10 fours and 4 sixes. Pant, playing in his comeback Test match, made a super 109 – where he took his time ahead of unleashing his attacking shots in his knock laced with 13 fours and 4 sixes.

The duo shared an enterprising 167-run stand for the fourth wicket to demoralise the Bangladeshi bowlers. The principle interest the total way at some stage in the second session changed into always going to be about when India would declare its innings.

Pant got to his hundred first – slamming Shakib down the bottom for six and swept him for four more. He then cut Mehidy Hasan Miraz for four more ahead of getting his hundred in 124 balls with a brace driven wide of long-off. With his sixth Test century, Pant now has equalled M.S. Dhoni for the joint-most centuries hit by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter the total way at some stage in the longer format.

After hitting two quick boundaries, Pant fell in a bid to attack more as he hit straight back to Mehidy in a caught and bowled dismissal. Gill made use of Shakib’s poor lengths to get consecutive fours, ahead of getting his 0.33 Test hundred in his last five Tests via 161 balls.

K.L. Rahul also played four free-flowing boundaries to be 21 no longer out, ahead of Rohit Sharma came out of the dressing room and often called the batters in to declare India’s second innings.

Bangladesh will resume their innings from 158/four on the penultimate day of the match after bad lights forced early stumps on Saturday. They are still 357 runs on the back of the winning target.