Mushtaq Mohammad held the record for youngest Test centurion for 40 years after his century for Pakistan in 1961, until it was broken in 2001. Who beat his record?

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Mushtaq Mohammad scored 101 for Pakistan vs India at Delhi in February 1961, then the youngest Test centurion. Bangladesh's Mohammad Ashraful broke that 40-year-old record by scoring 114 against Sri Lanka at the SSC, Colombo, on 8 September 2001 aged 17 years 61 days, a record that still stands.

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