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Mustakim Howlader smashes record 404* in Bangladesh’s school cricket

18 Mar 25

Bangladesh took lead of 661 after two innings in Mirpur Test against Afghanistan, which is the biggest lead in Bangladesh's 23 years Test history. In nearly 150 years of Test history, there have been bigger leads than this is only seven.

At the press conference after the third day's play, Afghanistan's head coach Jonathan Trott said that they did not think that the Bangladesh team, who had a lead of 236 runs in the first innings, would bat for a long time in the second innings as well. 

“Obviously, I thought Bangladesh will probably declare a little bit earlier. There's been a bit of rain around and that sort of stuff. You wouldn't want to lose too much time to rain, so they decided to go that route and they're entitled to do that and I thought they played really well,” said Trott.

“But it's a good case for our players or a good reminder as well, just how tough Test cricket is when you get behind the game a little bit or a lot and you have to fight to try and get yourself back in the game. It just reminds you how important it is to start well with whatever you do about and try and get ahead of the opposition like Bangladesh did on day one. So, good learning curves, individually, but as a collective as well for players to see how hard Test cricket is out in the field and how good the opposition can be,” he added.

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12 Mar 25

The weather forecast predicted rain on all three days of the match. However, it did not rain even once in three days.

At the end of the third day, play was stopped 24 minutes early due to lack of light. However, at the end of the third day's play, the Sher-e Bangla National Cricket Stadium was flooded with heavy rain in the evening.

"We are working at trying to bat out the two days, which is gonna be tough," however, Afghanistan coach is preparing for the fight amidst rain threat.