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Ireland's Harry Tector slams his 5th half-century in Tests: Stats
22 Nov 2025

The Irish men's cricket team managed to push the second Test against Bangladesh into a fifth day.

At the end of Day 4, Ireland still needed an improbable 333 runs for victory while Bangladesh required just four wickets.

Harry Tector scored his fifth Test half-century and Curtis Campher put up a solid resistance in an encouraging display.

Tector was dismissed right after getting to a fifty. Here's more.

Bangladesh's innings and Ireland's early setbacks
Match progress

Ireland lost openers Andrew Balbirnie (13) and Paul Stirling (9) within the first eight overs. They were 26/2 when Cade Carmichael was joined by Tector.

The duo added 51 runs for the 3rd wicket.

Thereafter, Tector added 41 runs alongside Campher for the 4th wicket.

Hasan Murad dismissed Tector in the 34th over of Ireland's innings. The visitors were reduced to 118/4.

Tector races to 474 runs in Tests
Stats

Tector, who scored 14 runs in the 2nd innings of this Test, hit 50 runs off 80 balls in the 4th. His knock had 7 fours.

With this effort, he has raced to 474 runs at an average of 26.33 from 9 Tests.

This was his 5th half-century as mentioned above. Notably, all 5 of his fifties have come in away Tests (home of opposition), as per ESPNcricinfo.

In First-Class cricket, he has surpassed 900 runs. This was his 7th FC fifty (100s: 1).