WATCH: Mushfiqur Rahim uses thigh to prevent ball from hitting stumps in Mirpur Test

Dixit Bhargav | 25/02/2020
WATCH: Mushfiqur Rahim uses thigh to prevent ball from hitting stumps in Mirpur Test

Mushfiqur Rahim uses thigh: The senior Bangladeshi batsman adopted a strange method to prevent the ball from hitting the stumps.

During the one-off Test of the ongoing Zimbabwe’s tour of Bangladesh in Mirpur, senior Bangladesh batsman Mushfiqur Rahim adopted a strange method to prevent the ball from hitting the stumps.

Having defended a delivery from one of the visiting seamers, Rahim was alert enough to realize that the ball was heading back towards the stumps. The 32-year old player immediately turned backwards and used his thigh to stop the ball from hitting the stumps.

Coming in to bat at No. 5 in the 50th over, Rahim stitched a 222-run partnership alongside captain Mominul Haque (132) as Bangladesh posted a mammoth 560/6 in 156 overs before declaring their innings.

In what was his seventh Test century, it was also his third Test double century. Rahim, who remained unbeaten till the end, ended up scoring 203* (318) with the help of 28 fours.

It is worth mentioning that Rahim had become the first wicket-keeper batsman to score two Test double centuries when he had crossed the 200-run mark for the second time against Zimbabwe in 2018. While he has scored another Test double century, he won’t better his own record as he was playing as a specialist batsman in this match.

Bangladesh spinner Nayeem Hasan registering bowling figures of 24-6-82-5 played a titular role in the hosts bundling out Zimbabwe for 189 in 57.3 overs to win the match by an innings and 106 runs.

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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