Ashraful became youngest Test centurion on this day
Ex-Bangladeshi cricketer Mohammad Ashraful became the youngest centurion in Test cricket history, after scoring 114 against Sri Lanka on September 8, 2001, at the age of 17 years and 63 days. The batsman broke the 41-year-old record by Pakistan's Mushtaq Mohammad, aged 17 years and 78 days. Ashraful recorded a total of six Test centuries in his 61-match-long Test career.