Mushfiqur Rahim has written his name into Bangladesh cricket history. The veteran wicketkeeper-batter became the first player from his country to score 7,000 runs in Test cricket, reaching the landmark on the final day of the second Test against West Indies at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, 9 November 2026.
Mushfiqur Rahim 7000 Test runs came up with a single off West Indies spinner Roston Chase, taking him to nine in his innings around lunch. He did not even notice the landmark at first. It was only when his team-mates rose in the dressing room to give him a standing ovation that he acknowledged the applause from the middle.
By the close of play, Mushfiqur had made 49, taking his career tally to 7,040 runs from 197 innings. It was the perfect way to cap a day on which Bangladesh also saved the Test — and a fitting reward for a career that has redefined what a Bangladesh batter can achieve in the longest format.
Mushfiqur Rahim 7000 Test runs: a record twenty years in the making
Mushfiqur’s journey to the milestone began more than two decades ago. He made his international debut at Lord’s in 2005 as a 17-year-old schoolboy, and the Sylhet Test was his 107th appearance in the format, making him Bangladesh’s most-capped Test cricketer. In November 2025, he became the first player from his country to play 100 Tests.
He had already stood alone at every previous staging post. Mushfiqur was the first Bangladesh batter to reach 5,000 Test runs, in 2022, and the first to reach 6,000, in 2024. Remarkably, he has become more prolific with age: he needed only 25 innings to travel from 6,000 to 7,000 runs, the fastest thousand of his career.
His record also includes 14 Test centuries — the most by a Bangladesh batter — with a best of 219 not out against Zimbabwe in 2018. He took on the Test captaincy in 2011 and grew into the team’s most dependable middle-order presence. It took him 20 Tests to reach his first 1,000 runs; the rest came with the authority of a player who had made the format his own.
Mushfiqur has retired from both white-ball formats, finishing with 6,697 runs in ODIs and 1,495 in T20 internationals. Test cricket is now his stage alone, and he used it to set a mark no other Bangladeshi has touched.
How Bangladesh saved the Sylhet Test
The milestone arrived in the middle of a rescue mission. West Indies had declared their second innings at 398 for 6, with Kavem Hodge scoring 142 and Kevin Wickham 78, leaving Bangladesh a target of 369 to chase on the final day.
The hosts made a difficult start. Jomel Warrican struck twice in the morning session, removing Tanzid Hasan and captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, and the left-arm spinner also reached 100 Test wickets during the match.
Then Towhid Hridoy and Mushfiqur took charge. Hridoy made 82 and Mushfiqur 49 in a 135-run stand that took the sting out of the chase and made the draw safe. Bangladesh finished on 184 for 4, and the match ended in a draw.
West Indies still took the two-match series 1-0, thanks to their eight-wicket victory in the first Test in Dhaka. But Bangladesh’s final-day resistance, led by their two history-makers, gave the home side a positive finish to the campaign.
Hridoy’s record day alongside the milestone
Mushfiqur was not the only Bangladesh batter to make history in Sylhet. Towhid Hridoy’s unbeaten 242 in the first innings passed Mushfiqur’s 219 not out as the highest individual score by a Bangladesh batter in Tests.
Hridoy’s second-innings 82 took his match aggregate past 300 — the first time any Bangladesh batter has scored 300 or more runs in a single Test. He also became only the ninth batter to aggregate 300 or more runs against West Indies in a Test.
Mushfiqur, who missed the first Test of the series after picking up a finger injury, returned for Sylhet and shared the stage with the younger man. Between them, the pair delivered a final day Bangladesh supporters will remember.
Alone at the top of Bangladesh’s batting charts
The scale of Mushfiqur’s achievement is clear from the all-time list. Mominul Haque sits second among Bangladesh’s Test run-scorers with 5,293 runs — nearly 2,000 behind Mushfiqur — while the now-retired Tamim Iqbal is third with 5,134.
The century chart tells the same story. Mushfiqur leads it with 14 hundreds, ahead of Mominul’s 13 and Tamim’s 10. And with Mushfiqur still playing Test cricket after retiring from the white-ball formats, the gap between him and the rest of Bangladesh’s batters is only likely to widen.
For a country that played its first Test in 2000, Mushfiqur’s 7,000 runs are more than a personal milestone. They are the measure of how far Bangladesh batting has come — and the standard every young batter in the country will now chase.
Bangladesh’s most experienced Test cricketer, its highest run-scorer and its most prolific century-maker is now also its first member of the 7,000-run club — a club of one. West Indies may have taken the series, but the final day in Sylhet belonged to Mushfiqur Rahim.
Sources and related reading: Cricinfo reported the milestone in Sylhet, and the ICC covered West Indies clinching the series. See also our guide to the Bangladesh vs West Indies Test series, and Mohammad Taha‘s maiden Test fifty on debut.
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