Mominul Haque ends streak of 50+ scores in 11 consecutive Test matches

Mominul Haque

At just 23 years of age and with the experience of 15 Test matches, Bangladesh’s Mominul Haque is in an elite club of players for a particular feat. In fact, he could have equalled a unique record if he had scored a 50+ in the Fatullah Test against India, but rain played spoilsport and he missed the only opportunity he had in the match by failing in the first innings.

Mominul had a 50+ score in each of his last 11 Test matches. He needed to do it in the Test against India to equal AB de Villiers’ record of 12 consecutive Test matches with 50+ scores and another 50+ score in the next match would have meant that he held the record at such a small age and at the start of his career.

Mominul Haque’s scores in 15 Test matches

Test #	1st innings	2nd innings	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	55	DNB	Sri Lanka	Galle	08-Mar-13
2	64	37	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	16-Mar-13
3	23	29	Zimbabwe	Harare	25-Apr-13
4	181	22*	New Zealand	Chittagong	09-Oct-13
5	47	126*	New Zealand	Dhaka	21-Oct-13
6	8	50	Sri Lanka	Dhaka	27-Jan-14
7	13	100*	Sri Lanka	Chittagong	04-Feb-14
8	51	12	West Indies	Kingstown	05-Sep-14
9	3	56	West Indies	Gros Islet	13-Sep-14
10	53	0	Zimbabwe	Dhaka	25-Oct-14
11	35	54	Zimbabwe	Khulna	03-Nov-14
12	48	131*	Zimbabwe	Chittagong	12-Nov-14
13	80	21	Pakistan	Khulna	28-Apr-15
14	13	68	Pakistan	Dhaka	06-May-15
15	30	DNB	India	Fatullah	10-Jun-15

Mominul began his Test career with scores of 55 and 64 in his first two innings against Sri Lanka. He scored 23 & 29 in the third Test and missed out on scoring a 50. Then from his 4^th Test to 14^th Test, he scored at least one 50+ score in each of the 11 Tests. In the 15th Test, against India at Fatullah, he scored 30 in the first innings and didn’t get to bat in the second innings and thus his streak of 11 consecutive Test matches has ended.

The remarkable feat for the young Mominul is he is in the elite club of batting greats Viv Richards, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag despite having an experience of just 15 Tests. They all scored 50+ in 11 consecutive Test matches.

50+ scores in most consecutive Test matches

Consecutive Tests	Batsman	Period	Test #
12	AB de Villiers	30 Nov 2012 - 20 Feb 2014	80 to 91
11	Viv Richards	23 Jan 1976 - 18 Feb 1977	12 to 22
	Gautam Gambhir	17 Oct 2008 - 24 Jan 2010	19 to 29
	Virender Sehwag	16 Nov 2009 - 01 Oct 2010	70 to 80
	Mominul Haque	09 Oct 2013 - 06 May 2015	4 to 14
10	John Edrich	10 Jul 1969 - 12 Feb 1971	37 to 47
	Sachin Tendulkar	02 Dec 2009 - 09 Oct 2010	162 to 172

• Mominul Haque, from Test number 4 to 14, is the earliest to achieve this feat in his career. Viv Richards did it from Test number 12 to 22.
• Gautam Gambhir’s sequence involved 5 consecutive Test matches with a 100+ score. He missed beating Don Bradman’s record of centuries in six consecutive Test matches.
• Everton Weekes scored 50+ in 9 consecutive Tests from his Test number 4 to 12.

• Mominul Haque has scored at least one 50 in 13 of his 15 Tests but he hasn’t scored 50+ in both innings of any Test match.

  The record for fifties in consecutive Test innings is shared by four batsmen – Everton Weekes, Andy Flower, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Kumar Sangakkara – seven each.