Mushfiqur and Muminul formed the pair against Sri Lanka in 2018. Muminul and Shant also made their second appearance of playing 500 balls in a pair for Bangladesh. In 2013, against Sri Lanka, Ashraful and Mushfiqur played 518 balls and made a pair of 267 runs. Muminul-Shant pair played 514 balls.

Mominul Haque dragged the first Test century the most among Bangladeshis. He dragged his first century to 181 against New Zealand in Chittagong in 2013. Nazmul Hossain Shantar’s first century stopped at 163 runs. The majestic government is at number three in this list. Soumya made his first century against New Zealand in 2019 and stopped at 149 runs.

The umpires could not keep track of the ball in two overs in the first two days of play at Pallekele. Bowler Suranga Lakmal finished the third over of Bangladesh’s innings with 7 balls. In the morning session yesterday, the 105th over of Bangladesh’s innings ended with 5 balls. Offspinner Dhananjaya de Silva did the over. In both cases, the umpire was Ruchira Paliyaguruge.

Nazmul Hossain Shant played the most number of balls after Aminul Islam Bulbul in the innings of the first Test century among the batsmen of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh’s debut Test against India, Aminul scored 145 off 380 balls. Nazmul played 378 balls in his first Test century innings, scoring 163 runs.