6 Records that Bangladesh players hold in International cricket

4. Youngest Test centurion:

Mohammad Ashraful made his Test debut in the 2001 Asian Test Championship against Sri Lanka. In the second innings of the game, Ashraful scored a magnificent 114 off 212 balls with 16 fours during his four-hour stay at the crease. It was a patient and rather fighting knock from the youngster understanding the need of the hour.

However, Ashraful couldn’t save Bangladesh from an innings defeat that too on the third day of the game. He was 17 years and 63 days old at that time, thus he became the youngest centurion in the history of Test cricket.

Ashraful thus broke the previous record held by Pakistan’s Mushtaq Mohammad who was 17 years and 82 days when he scored his maiden Test ton in the year 1961. Sachin Tendulkar closely missed out on this record as the first of his hundred international tons came at the age of 17 years and 112 days in 1990.