Mushfiqur Rahim hits Bangladesh’s fastest ODI century, completes 7,000 runs | Cricket News – Act Daily News

NEW DELHI: Seasoned batter Mushfiqur Rahim scripted historical past on Monday by scoring Bangladesh’s quickest ODI century and within the course of additionally accomplished 7,000 ODI runs throughout the second one-dayer towards Ireland in Sylhet.
Mushfiqur 60-ball century bettered Shakib Al Hasan’s document of a 63-ball ODI hundred made towards Zimbabwe in 2009.
He additionally turned the third Bangladeshi participant after Tamim Iqbal and Shakib to achieve 7000 ODI runs mark.
Fresh from beating England 3-0 in T20s, Mushfiqur was unbeaten on 100 off simply 60 balls, whereas Najmul Hossain and Liton Das added 73 and 70 runs respectively.

This helped the hosts break their document of 338-8 set solely within the earlier match, which they gained by 183 runs to offer them a 1-0 lead within the three-match sequence.
Sent in to bat first, Bangladesh started cautiously in barely overcast circumstances earlier than Liton and skipper Tamim Iqbal grew in confidence to placed on 42 runs.
Tamim was run out for 23 with a direct throw from Mark Adair earlier than Liton and Najmul added 101 runs for the second wicket.

Graham Hume, Ireland’s most profitable bowler with 3-58, eliminated Shakib Al Hasan (17) and Najmul in successive overs after Andy McBrine took the wicket of Liton.
However, Mushfiqur and Towhid Hridoy then took the bowling by storm so as to add 128 runs in simply 13 overs for the fifth wicket.
Towhid fell for 49 however Mushfiqur continued his terrific batting to deliver his ninth ODI hundred with a single within the final ball of the innings.
(With AFP inputs)