The highlight of his innings came off the bowling of spinner Jeetan Patel - and his four consecutive sixesall cleared the long-on boundary by a considerable distance.
He bludgeoned the Scotland attack and took a particular liking to the off-spin of Majid Haq - whom he dispatched over the mid-off boundary for all five of his sixes.
Mortaza took two sixes and 20 runs in all off the final over, bowled by Alex Cusack, and that gave his team some momentum going into the second half of the match.