Bangladesh ‘A’ skipper Towhid Hridoy turned the primary Bangladeshi batter to attain 350 runs in first-class cricket.
Six and a half years after serving to Bangladesh make historical past by successful the Below-19 World Cup in Potchefstroom, South Africa, Hridoy returned to the identical venue to create one other piece of historical past.
Hridoy, who turned solely the third Bangladeshi batter to attain a triple hundred in first-class cricket and surpassed Tamim Iqbal’s unbeaten 334 and Raqibul Hasan’s unbeaten 313 to register the best first-class rating by a Bangladeshi batter, can be now the primary Bangladeshi to attain a first-class triple century exterior Bangladesh.
Hridoy, whose 350 is the best first-class rating by an abroad batter in South Africa, is barely the second batter to attain not less than 350 in a first-class innings in South Africa, after Stephen Prepare dinner’s 390.
Towhid, who resumed on 204 in a single day, remained unbeaten on 350 off 481 balls with 27 fours and 10 sixes, to realize the feat in the course of the fourth and remaining day of the second four-day match in opposition to South Africa ‘A’ at NWC Oval in Potchefstroom on Wednesday.
The match led to a draw as Bangladesh declared their first innings at 676 for eight to take a 164-run lead whereas South Africa ‘A’, who had earlier scored 512 of their first innings, reached 18 with out loss earlier than the 2 groups agreed to a draw.
“To be sincere this innings gave me a number of confidence. After selecting the Man of the Match trophy I used to be feeling that sometime I’ll play an innings like this within the nationwide group,” Hridoy mentioned after the match.
Tamim, the previous nationwide skipper and present BCB president, was fast to congratulate him on breaking his document.
“Scoring a 350-run innings wherever, at any degree and in any context, is a exceptional achievement. But when that innings is available in South Africa, it must be described as extraordinary,” Tamim wrote on his Fb web page.
“They are saying information are supposed to be damaged. I’m very blissful that my document has been damaged.
“Congratulations to Towhid Hridoy on making historical past. Turning into the primary Bangladeshi batter to succeed in 350 isn’t just a private achievement; additionally it is an emblem of the progress of cricket within the nation,” he added.
South Africa ‘A’ gained the two-match four-day sequence 1-0 regardless of the draw after securing an enormous innings-and-413-run victory within the opening recreation in Pretoria.
The 2 groups will now face one another in a three-match one-day sequence, with the primary match scheduled to happen in Bloemfontein on September 6.
