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Mehdi Hasan Miraj scored the first century of his career

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  • 04 February, 2021 15:48:01

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Sports Desk: As soon as the ball swept the paddle, it became a century. Mehdi Hasan Miraj jumped for joy after completing one run. He had the opportunity to take the second run, he took that too. As good as it was, Mirage was able to celebrate the full century in front of their dressing room.

He took off his helmet, raised both his hands and celebrated the first century of his career with a big smile on his face. He did not forget to say Shukria Sijdah. Undoubtedly, the name of one of the happiest people in the world at that time was Mehdi Miraj. After the first century of his career as well as the team's collection has reached a great position that the joy that excels him.

Sadman Islam and Shakib Al Hasan had a chance to score a century. But after half a century, they could not go far. Sadman was out for 59 and Shakib was out for 7. However, after 28 months, Mehdi Hasan Miraj did not stop after scoring a half century.

For the first time in his Test career, the off-spin all-rounder of Bangladesh touched his three-wicket mark by batting brilliantly. He went down to bat at number eight. It is not a small matter to score a century from this place. But Miraj has done just that. Mirage scored a century off 160 balls, ignoring the eyes of the Caribbean bowlers. Miraj completed the century in the 147th over of the innings.

Miraj was unbeaten on 93 at the start of the over by Jomel Warikan. He hit four in the first ball and reached 96 runs, then took two more runs in the next ball. Not in a hurry to score a century, Dot played the third ball. Swing the paddle in the fourth ball to reach the magic figure.

Mirage became the sixth batsman for Bangladesh to score a Test century at number eight or below. Before him, Mohammad Rafiq, Khaled Masood Pilot, Mahmudullah Riyadh, Abul Hasan Raju and Sohag Gazi have this fame. The 23-year-old spinning all-rounder has taken the team collection to 430 runs by putting his name next to them.

Liton Das returned to the dressing room at the start of the second day today (Thursday), but the challenge was still tough for Shannon Gabriel-Mirage to attack with the new ball. However, in the third ball against Gabriel, Mirage declared himself ready to fight with four points through the point area with great skill in bouncer delivery. Which he picked up and picked up the third fifty of his career. Bangladesh scored 246 runs when Liton was out.

After losing five wickets two and a half years ago, there was a pressure on the head to increase the team's collection. At the other end, Shakib Al Hasan was there to give courage. The duo put on 6 runs for the sixth wicket. Bangladesh crossed the quota of 300 runs by relying on this pair.

Shakib was later dismissed for 7, but Taizul Islam, Naeem Hasan and Mostafizur Rahman added 115 runs for the last three wickets. After batting, Miraj kept playing from the beginning with the run wheel in motion. He gave Jomel Warikan confidence by hitting a boundary on a sweep or Kemar Roach full-length delivery undrive.

The best shot of the innings was in the 117th over of the innings. He hit a spectacular boundary with an extra cover in the inside out shot of Warrickan's middle-legstamp delivery. He remained unbeaten on 47 during the lunch break. Returning after the break, Cornwall reached the third man with 3 runs for 49 runs, then completed the third fifty of his career with 2 runs with a fine leg.

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