Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 2018: Mushfiqur Rahim Creates a World Record

Perhaps, Mushfiqur Rahim is an underrated story in the game of cricket. He made his debut at a very young age and always took the field like a match-winner for the team. Meanwhile, he registered yet another scintillating record for his country with a stunning double century against Zimbabwe.

Rahim enters record books

Meanwhile, the right-handed batsman has marked the second Test of the series with a stunning double ton. The remarkable knock also made him the first wicketkeeper-batsman to register two double centuries in Test cricket.

In another story, 18 years after Aminul Islam’s 535-minute innings against India in their first-ever Test, Mushfiqur Rahim breaks the record for the longest Test innings for Bangladesh, batting for 589 minutes.

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Previously, Imtiaz Ahmed (Pakistan) scored 209 in 1955, Taslim Arif (Pakistan) made 210 in 1980, Brendon Kuruppu (Sri Lanka) hit 201 in 1987, Andy Flower (Zimbabwe) blasted 232 in 2000, Adam Gilchrist (Australia) hammered 204 in 2002, Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) scored 230 in 2002 and MS Dhoni (India) made 224 in 2013 as wicketkeeper-batsman in Tests.

Though Sangakkara has got 11 double centuries to his name, he scored only one century, as the wicketkeeping-batsman. Meanwhile, Andy Flower is the other cricketer, who came pretty close to the record by scoring 199 in his second attempt.

Match Progress:

Initially, it was Bangladesh, who won the toss and chose to bat first. However, it seemed like a bad call with scorecard reading 26/3. However, Mominul’s 161-run knock and Mushfiqur’s incredible unbeaten 219* put them on the driver seat.

Kyle Jarvis is the pick of the bowlers with a five-wicket haul to his name. In reply to the massive 522-run total, Zimbabwe lost their skipper Hamilton Maskadza, who scored 16 runs to his name.