Mushfiqur Rahim reaches 6000 Test runs: Who's the first to the landmark from each team?

Mushfiqur crossed the 6,000-run mark late on day two of the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa in Mirpur, when he reverse-swept left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj for four in the 26th over of Bangladesh's second innings.

He became the first player from Bangladesh to score 6000 runs in Test cricket. Tamim Iqbal is the only other with over 5000 runs, at a tally of 5,134 runs. Mushfiqur is also one of only three Bangladesh batters with over 6,000 runs in ODI cricket, alongside Tamim and Shakib Al Hasan.

But who was the first to the 6,000-run mark for each Test-playing nation?

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England: Wally Hammond

The first-ever player to score 6,000 Test runs was England's Wally Hammond, who crossed the mark in December 1938, nine months before Test cricket came to a halt due to World War II. Captaining his side, he made 24 & 58 against South Africa in Johannesburg.

Australia: Don Bradman

Rarely do you find a batting list without Don Bradman on it, and this is no different. "The Don" was Australia's first batter to score 6,000 Test runs when he went past the mark in January 1948, scoring 132 & 127* against India in Melbourne. Unsurprisingly, he remains the fastest-ever to 6,000 Test runs, doing so in just 68 innings.

West Indies: Garfield Sobers

20 years after Bradman and 30 after Hammond, Garfield Sobers became West Indies' first player to the mark of 6,000 Test runs. He narrowly missed out on Bradman's achievement of scoring two centuries in the match, with 152 & 95* to his name against England in Guyana. Sobers was joined in this club just five years later by Rohan Kanhai.

India: Sunil Gavaskar

Perhaps India's first truly great Test batter, Sunil Gavaskarwas the country's first batter to score 6,000 Test runs, doing so in January 1981 in Adelaide, with 23 & 5 against Australia. He was joined by Gundappa Viswanath two years later, despite Viswanath debuting two years earlier than Gavaskar in Test cricket.

Pakistan: Javed Miandad

Javed Miandad etched himself in Pakistani cricket history as the first to 6,000 runs, when he scored a mammoth 260 against England at the Oval in 1987. Pakistan scored 708 in that innings and managed to enforce the follow-on, but could only draw the match.

Sri Lanka: Aravinda de Silva

A diminutive but tough batter, Aravinda de Silva just about made it to the 6,000-run mark in Test cricket, when he scored 88 against England at Lord's in May 2002. He would play his final Test barely two months after that, scoring a double century in his final innings.

South Africa: Gary Kirsten

South Africa have been a Test nation since the nineteenth century, but their ban from international cricket in the second half of the twentieth century means that their greatest batters have come since 1992. Opener Gary Kirsten became the first to score 6,000 runs for the Proteas in November 2002, with a half-century against Sri Lanka in Johannesburg.

New Zealand: Stephen Fleming

The last player before Mushfiqur to become the first to 6,000 for their country was New Zealand's Stephen Fleming, who did so in August 2005 in the course of a knock of 65 against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. Since then, Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson have all joined him in the 6,000-run club.

Full list: First player to score 6,000 Test runs for each country

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