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Bangladesh’s seasoned campaigner Mushfiqur Rahim joined an elite radical of batters to person scored a period successful their 100th Test match. He became the first-ever Bangladesh subordinate to transverse the milestone of playing 100 Test matches.
Rahim scored a valiant 106 disconnected 214 deliveries to assistance his squad to ascendancy successful the 2nd Test against Ireland. Rahim joins the likes of Colin Cowdrey, Javed Miandad, Gordon Greenidge, and Graeme Smith successful achieving the historical feat, according to the ICC website.
An objection among the 11 batters who person done the aforementioned is ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting, who scored centuries successful some innings of his 100th Test lucifer against South Africa successful Sydney backmost successful 2006.
The latest batters to person done truthful earlier Rahim were Joe Root (2021) and David Warner (2022). Having won the flip and elected to bat first, Bangladesh established a steadfast manus by finishing Day 1 successful Dhaka with 292 runs connected the committee astatine the nonaccomplishment of 4 wickets.
Rahim finished unbeaten astatine 99. The 38-year-old would transverse past triple digits aboriginal connected Day 2 for the 13th clip successful his Test career. His innings, laced with 5 boundaries, person enactment the hosts successful a promising presumption to expanse the two-match series.
The hosts had nabbed a triumph by an innings and 47 runs successful the archetypal Test successful Sylhet to spell 1-0 up successful the series.
