SL vs BAN: Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto created history, entered the special club of Gavaskar-Dravid
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Bangladesh Test captain Nazmul Hasan Shanto has created history. He did the feat of scoring a century in both the innings of the first Test match against Sri Lanka. No Bangladeshi captain had been able to do this before.
The Bangladesh team, which went on a tour of Sri Lanka, will play a 2-match Test series. The first Test match is held in Galle. Shanto scored 148 runs in the first innings. At the same time, in the second innings also, an unbeaten innings of 125 runs was seen from Shanto’s bat.
Shanto created history
With the help of these two centuries, Nazmul Hasan Shanto has become the first Test captain of Bangladesh, whose bat saw a century in both innings of a Test match. Even before this, Shanto had scored a century in both innings of a Test match but he was not the captain at that time.
Shanto scored centuries in both innings of the Test match played against Afghanistan in Mirpur in the year 2023. Apart from this, Nazmul Hasan Shanto has also become the 5th Asian player who managed to score a century in both innings of a Test match.
Players who scored a century in both innings of a Test match
- Aravind de Silva (Sri Lanka)
- Rahul Dravid (India)
- Sunil Gavaskar (India)
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
- Nazmul Hasan Shanto (Bangladesh)
The match was drawn
In the first Test match against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh declared its second innings on the fifth day of play at a score of 285 runs. Sri Lanka was given a target of 296 runs in this match. Sri Lanka scored 74 runs at the loss of four wickets and the match was drawn.
