Stats highlights from an extraordinary innings that rescued Bangladesh against West Indies in Sylhet

Sampath Bandarupalli

Published: Nov 7, 2026, 1:53 PM (2 hrs ago)

242* Towhid Hridoy's score against West Indies in the second Test in Sylhet, the highest for Bangladesh in Test cricket, surpassing Mushfiqur Rahim's unbeaten 219 against Zimbabwe in Mirpur in 2018.

The 213 runs Hridoy scored on Saturday - having resumed his innings on 29 overnight - are the most in a single day for Bangladesh, surpassing Shakib Al Hasan's 212 on the second day against New Zealand in Wellington in 2017.

11 Sixes in Hridoy's unbeaten 242, the most by a Bangladesh batter in a Test innings. No batter had hit more than seven sixes in a Test innings against West Indies.

Only Wasim Akram - against Zimbabwe in 1996 - and Yashasvi Jaiswal - against England in 2024 - have hit more sixes (12) than Hridoy in a Test innings.

1 Number of Bangladesh batters to convert their maiden Test hundred into a double ton. The previous highest maiden Test hundred for Bangladesh was 181 by Mominul Haque. Overall, eleven batters recorded a higher maiden Test ton than Hridoy.

34 Mushfiqur's score was the second highest in Bangladesh's first innings. It is the joint-lowest score among other batters in a Test innings where a batter scored a double hundred.

Brian Lara made 226 against Australia in Adelaide in 2005, when the second highest score was Dwayne Bravo's 34; Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 209 against England in Visakhapatnam in 2024, when Shubman Gill's 34 was the second highest.

Hridoy's 242* is also the second-highest in a Test innings where no other batter scored a fifty. The highest is 262* by Dennis Amiss against West Indies in the 1974 Kingston Test.

62.69% Hridoy's contribution to the total - 242 out of 386 - is the highest made by a Bangladesh batter in a completed Test innings. Litton Das' 58.13% was the previous highest, when he scored 25 in Bangladesh's 43 all-out against West Indies in 2018. Overall, only seven batters have made a higher contribution in a completed men's Test innings.

202 Runs added after the fall of the seventh wicket in Sylhet, the most for Bangladesh in a Test innings. Their previous highest was 198 against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2021. Hridoy shared a 117-run stand with Taijul Islam for the eighth wicket, the second highest for Bangladesh after the unbeaten 144 between Mushfiqur Rahim and Mehidy Hasan Miraz against Zimbabwe in 2018.

161 Runs Hridoy contributed to the 202 that Bangladesh scored after the fall of the seventh wicket. Since 2001, these are the most runs scored while batting with Nos. 9 or lower. The previous highest was 144 by Stephen Fleming against South Africa in 2006.

Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at Cricinfo