Mashrafe Mortaza

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza

Bangladesh Bangladesh

Overview

Full Name Mashrafe Bin Mortaza
Age 41y 34d
Born Wednesday, October 5, 1983, Bangladesh
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Style Right-arm fast medium
Playing Role Bowler

Biography

One of Bangladesh's most successful right arm seamers, Mashrafe Mortaza has been one of the reasons for his country's steady rise in international cricket. A bowler who can stir up quite a pace, Mortaza's success has been curbed on a few occasions due to his persistent injury woes.

The fast bowler's talent was recognized at a very early stage by Bangladesh's selectors and the man from Norail was handed his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 2001 without even playing a single first-class game. The year 2003 was a roller-coaster ride for the pace bowler as he registered impressive figures of 4-60 in a Test against England but fell prey to a knee injury that kept him away from the game for a year. He was re-called for a tour to England late in 2004 but soon suffered a back injury on the Sri Lankan tour in 2005 and failed to play out the entire series. He came back well in the year 2006 though, and put up some fine performances against sides like Australia and Kenya.

The speedster wasn't at his best in the Champions Trophy of 2009 but bounced back in ODIs against Zimbabwe and Scotland and proved his mettle. He has grown as a bowler ever since and was given the chance of leading Bangladesh on a tour to West Indies. That chance went a-begging as he got injured at the start of the tour and had to hand over the captaincy to Shakib Al Hasan.

Debut
Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe at Dhaka - Thursday, November 8, 2001

Batting

Matches 36
Innings 67
Runs 797
100's - 50's 0 - 3
Sixes - Fours 22 - 95
Average 12.85
Strike Rate 67.20
Highest Score (vs India, 18/05/2007) 79

Bowling

Matches 36
Innings 51
Overs 998.2
Wickets 78
Economy Rate 3.24
Five-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Ten-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Best Figures (vs England, 29/10/2003) 4/60

Fielding

Catches 9
Stumpings 0
Run Outs 3

Career Wickets

17
15
10
5
Wickets
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