Litton Das became the first wicketkeeper in Test history to score fifty in both innings and take nine dismissals in a match, completing the feat with a diving catch to dismiss Ikram Alikhil in the Abu Dhabi Test on October 13.

Ebadot Hossain banged in a short ball and Ikram Alikhil, trying to pull, gloved it behind. Litton read the line early, flung himself to his right and plucked the ball out of the air, almost parallel to the ground, as Ikram departed for 33.

It was Bangladesh’s only wicket of a toiling first session on the final day, and the fourth catch Litton had held in Afghanistan’s second innings. All four batters dismissed so far had been caught, every one of them by the wicketkeeper.

The previous best combination belonged to South Africa’s Denis Lindsay, who scored 69 and 182 and took eight dismissals against Australia in Johannesburg in 1966. Litton, with 53 in the first innings and 102 in the second, has now gone one better.

Litton had already erased Bangladesh’s 22-year-old record on October 12, when three catches in Afghanistan’s second innings took him beyond the seven dismissals Khaled Mashud made against Zimbabwe in Harare in February 2004. The ninth stretched that mark further.

The world record is 11 dismissals, shared by Jack Russell of England in 1995, AB de Villiers of South Africa in 2013 and Rishabh Pant of India in 2018. Litton needs two more to equal it and three to break it, with Afghanistan still batting.

With the bat, Litton ended a four-innings drought with a half-century in the first innings, then hit a century that moved him to fifth on Bangladesh’s list of centurions, ahead of Mohammad Ashraful. He also became the fifth Bangladeshi to reach 9,000 international runs.

Litton did slip up once, though. Sediqullah Atal came down the track to Taijul Islam, the ball turned in with extra bounce, and the wicketkeeper failed to gather it cleanly, letting a stumping chance go.

Afghanistan, needing to survive another session and a half to draw, are leaning on Atal, who was unbeaten on 83 off 253 balls with Ismat Alam yet to score from 39 balls. The miss could prove costly for Bangladesh.