{"id":77968,"date":"2025-06-19T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77968"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:25:47","slug":"bangladeshs-mushfiqur-rahim-breaks-younis-khans-record-in-test-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/bangladeshs-mushfiqur-rahim-breaks-younis-khans-record-in-test-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s Mushfiqur Rahim breaks Younis Khan&#8217;s record in Test cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GALLE: Bangladesh&#8217;s veteran batsman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-court-imposes-travel-ban-on-shakib-al-hasan-heres-why\/\">Mushfiqur Rahim<\/a> broke former Pakistan captain Younis Khan&#8217;s Test record by becoming the oldest batter to score a century in Srilanka.<\/p>\n<p>Mushfiqur Rahim set a new record during the first Test match against hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/interim-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025-schedule-unveiled\/\">Sri Lanka<\/a> at the Galle International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s Mushfiqur Rahim scored his 12th Test century, making him the oldest player, other than an opener, to score a century in a Test on Sri Lankan soil.<\/p>\n<p>He broke the record of Pakistan&#8217;s Younis Khan, who scored a Test century against the host team in Sri Lanka in 2015 at the age of 37 years and 216 days.<\/p>\n<p>Mushfiqur scored a Test century in Sri Lanka at the age of 38 years and 39 days.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bangladesh scored 484 runs for 9 wickets at the end of the second day of play against the host team in the Galle Test.<\/p>\n<p>Mushfiqur Rahim played an innings of 163 runs, while captain Najm Al-Hussain scored 148, and Liton Das scored 90 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALLE: Bangladesh&#8217;s veteran batsman Mushfiqur Rahim broke former Pakistan captain Younis Khan&#8217;s Test record by becoming the oldest batter to score a century in Srilanka. Mushfiqur Rahim set a new record during the first Test match against hosts Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium. Bangladesh&#8217;s Mushfiqur Rahim scored his 12th Test century, making him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77970,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77968\/revisions\/77970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}