16 Facts About Mominul Haque

Mominul Haque, known as Muminul Showrav, is a Bangladeshi cricketer who is a former captain of the Bangladesh national team in Test matches.

Mominul Haque made his List A cricket debut for the side later in the season, but these were his only matches for Dhaka, and by the following season he was playing for Chittagong in the NCL.

Mominul Haque has since played in the competition for five of the eight franchises to have competed.

Mominul Haque made both his One Day International and Twenty20 debuts against the West Indies in a home series in November and December 2012 as a replacement for the injured Shakib Al Hasan.

Mominul Haque made his Test match debut in March 2013, playing against Sri Lanka at Galle.

Mominul Haque scored a half-century on debut, and finished the tour with 156 runs in three innings at a batting average of 52.00 runs per innings in his maiden Test series.

Mominul Haque made his first century in a Test match against New Zealand at Chittagong in 2013, scored from exactly 100 balls.

Mominul Haque scored another century at Chittagong during the season, this time against the touring Sri Lankans.

In November 2014 Mominul Haque scored his fourth Test century, again at Chittagong, this time with Zimbabwe as the opponents.

In January 2018, Mominul Haque scored centuries in each innings of the first Test against Sri Lanka, scoring 176 and 105 not out.

Mominul Haque was appointed as the 11th captain of Bangladesh's Test side in October 2019 when Shakib Al Hasan was banned from all forms of cricket for two years by the International Cricket Council after breaching the ICC's Anti-Corruption code.

Mominul Haque scored 132 runs, his first century as captain, and equaled Tamim Iqbal's Bangladesh record of scoring nine Test centuries.

Mominul Haque scored 127 in the first Test, his first Test century outside of Bangladesh.

Mominul Haque is one of only six batsmen, and the only Bangladeshi, to score 11 or more consecutive scores of at least fifty in Test matches.

Mominul Haque was the first Bangladeshi to score centuries in both innings of a Test match and the first Bangladeshi batsman to score 10 centuries in Test cricket.

Mominul Haque is yet to score a century in either One Day International or Twenty20 International cricket.