Bangladesh all-rounder Mehdi Hasan Miraj has done something in this cycle of the ICC World Test Championship, which no player has been able to do till now. In this cycle, Mehdi Hasan Miraz has become the first all-rounder to score more than 500 runs and take 30 or more wickets. Before this, two cycles of the World Test Championship have been played, during which this is only the fourth time that a player has achieved more than 500 runs and 30 or more wickets in a cycle of the WTC.
The first to do this feat was England’s Test captain Ben Stokes. Stokes had scored 1334 runs and taken 34 wickets in the 2019-2021 WTC cycle, while two players had achieved this feat in the 2021-23 WTC cycle.
Stokes repeated this feat again in the 2021-23 WTC cycle, while India’s Ravindra Jadeja also entered this club. Jadeja had scored 721 runs and taken 47 wickets. Whereas Stokes had scored 971 runs and taken 30 wickets. Talking about Mehdi Hasan Miraj, he has achieved this feat in the ongoing Dhaka Test match against South Africa.
Mehdi achieved this feat during his innings in the second innings of Bangladesh. With this, he has become the first all-rounder to do so in this cycle. More than 500 runs have been registered in Miraj’s account while he has also taken 34 wickets in the current cycle. Not only this, the most runs for Bangladesh in the current World Test Championship have also come from the bat of Mehdi Hasan Miraz, while he has also taken the most number of wickets for his team.