Bangladesh pacers Shoriful Islam and Taskin Ahmed struck early in the final session to reduce Afghanistan to 45-2 at stumps on the third day of the one-off Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on Friday (June 16).<\/p>\n
The visitors were trailing the hosts by a massive 617-run in the second innings before the day\u2019s play was called off 26 to minutes earlier due to bad light.<\/p>\n
Rahmat Shah and Nasir Jamal remained unbeaten on 10 and 13 runs respectively after Afghan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi retired hurt on 13 runs by a bouncer from Taskin.<\/p>\n
Earlier banking on Najmul Hossain Shanto 124 and Mominul Haque\u2019s undefeated 121 Bangladesh declared their second inning on 425-4.<\/p>\n
Thus, Mominul ended a prolonged lean patch with his 12th Test century as Bangladesh set Afghanistan a mammoth target of 662 runs for victory.<\/p>\n
Captain Liton Das stayed unbeaten on 66. Bangladesh had scored 382 in their first innings while Afghanistan were bowled out for 146 in reply.<\/p>\n
Mominul went 25 months without a Test hundred, having scored 11 hundreds in the first eight years of his Test career.<\/p>\n
The former Test skipper hit his last hundred in April, 2021 against Sri Lanka in Pallekele. Then he had gone 13 Tests and 27 innings without the three-figure mark.<\/p>\n
However, he ended that lean patch in style, bringing up his 12th ton in his 105th innings, the century coming off 123 deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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