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Mominul catches Kohli and Tamim

Published : Friday, 23 November, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan
Bangladesh cricketer Mominul Haque reacts after scoring a century during the first day of the first Test cricket match against West Indies at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Thursday.	photo: AFP

Bangladesh cricketer Mominul Haque reacts after scoring a century during the first day of the first Test cricket match against West Indies at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Thursday. photo: AFP

The little master of Bangladesh cricket Mominul Haque wrote his name in the record book for couple of achievements on Thursday alongside bagging his eighth Test ton against Windies.
Mominul has been sharing the leading Test centurions' record with Tamim Iqbal among the Tigers batters. Both the southpaw batters registered three-digit magical figures beside their names for eight times. Tamim's played 56 Tests to have eight hundreds while Mominul got similar number of hundreds from 32 matches.
Among his eight centuries landmarks, Mominul got six in his lucky ground Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram. It was his third consecutive ton against Windies.
Shourav, the surname of brave son of Cox's Bazar seashore region, got his fourth century of the current cricket calendar and became the leading ton maker in 2018 along with Indian skipper Virat Kohli. Kohli played 18 innings to amass four centuries while Mominul took 13 innings.
Mominul, 27, also called Mimi by his mates, is holding the grace of the highest average in Test cricket among Bangladesh batsmen with enchanting 48.20. He faced 135 deliveries to complete his eighth hundred on Thursday, who mounted up 120 runs before being caught behind the wickets by Shane Dowrich in the outside off stump delivery of Shannon Gabriel. He ornamented his innings with 10 rope kissing shots with solitary massive.





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