Sohag Gazi: Statistical overview of his record-breaking performance against New Zealand in Chittagong Test

Sohag Gazi’s all-round performance against New Zealand in the first Test at Chittagong stood out. He scored an unbeaten 101 and took a six-for in New Zealand’s second innings, which included a hat-trick. Sarang Bhalerao presents a statistical overview of Gazi’s stupendous feat.

Sohag Gazi became the 29th cricketer to achieve the rare distinction of scoring a Test century and grabbing a five-wicket haul in the same game © AFP

Sohag Gazi’s all-round performance against New Zealand in the first Test at Chittagong stood out. He scored an unbeaten 101 and took a six-for in New Zealand’s second innings, which included a hat-trick. Sarang Bhalerao presents a statistical overview of Gazi’s stupendous feat.
On his Test debut, Sohag Gazi, the Bangladesh off-spinner, was famously hit by Chris Gayle for a six off the first ball of the match. The off-spinner eventually dismissed the aggressive southpaw, thus announcing himself at the international arena.

Gazi scored an unbeaten 101 in the first innings of the Test in the recently-concluded Test match against New Zealand. His century ensured that Bangladesh gained a slender lead of 32 in the first innings — the third time Bangladesh had achieved a first-innings lead batting second. He became the third Bangladesh Test player to score a century in a Test match.

Bangladesh batsmen to score centuries at No 8:

Gazi became the 29th cricketer to achieve the rare distinction of scoring a Test century and grabbing a five-wicket haul in the same game.

List of cricketers who scored a ton and got five wickets in an innings:

Gazi hat-trick:

Gazi became the second Bangladeshi to pick up a hat-trick in a Test match after Alok Kapali. On the fifth day of the Test, Gazi had Corey Anderson leg-before, BJ Watling caught-behind and Doug Bracewell caught in the slips.

Gazi thus became the first cricketer since 1877 to hit a ton, grab a five-for and record a hat-trick.

He became the fourth cricketer to score a half-century, take a five-wicket haul and capture a hat-trick:

List of cricketers to score a half-century, take a five-wicket haul and capture a hat-trick:

Bates was the first bowler to take a hat-trick for England. He scored a 55 in the first innings and grabbed Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and George Bonnor in Australia’s first innings.

Dominic Cork achieved the stupendous feat against West Indies at Manchester in 1994 while Stuart Broad was India’s pet-peeve in the Nottingham Test in 2011.

(Sarang Bhalerao hails from a family of doctors, but did his engineering. He then dumped a career in IT with Infosys to follow his heart and passion and became a writer with CricketCountry. A voracious reader, Sarang aspires to beat Google with his knowledge of the game! You can follow him on Twitter here)

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