Mashrafe Mortaza

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Mashrafe Mortaza
Bangladesh
Personal information
Full name	Mashrafe Bin Mortaza
Nickname	Koushik
Born	5 October 1983 (1983-10-05) (age 24)
	Narail, Bangladesh
Role	Bowler
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm fast medium
International information
Test debut (cap 19)	8 November 2001: v Zimbabwe
Last Test	14 July 2007: v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 53)	23 November 2001: v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	20 Jul 2007: v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.	2
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2002-present	Khulna Division
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	25	69	33	76
Runs scored	457	727	820	914
Batting average	10.88	16.52	15.76	18.65
100s/50s	0/2	0/1	1/4	0/2
Top score	79	51*	132*	60*
Balls bowled	4385	3558	5622	3935
Wickets	59	92	82	105
Bowling average	40.30	29.70	36.57	28.12
5 wickets in innings	0	1	0	1
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	4/60	6/26	4/27	6/26
Catches/stumpings	7/-	22/-	9/-	25/-
As of 31 August 2007 Source: cricketarchive.com

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Bengali: মাশরািফ িবন মুর্তজা ) (born 5 October 1983 in Narail District, Jessore) is a Bangladeshi cricketer and the vice-captain of Bangladesh Cricket Team.

Contents 1 Career Story 2 Career Milestones 2.1 Tests 2.2 ODIs 3 External links

[edit] Career Story

Mortaza is one of the best pace bowlers to have emerged from Bangladesh. Andy Roberts, the former West Indian fast bowler, played an important role in the emergence of Mortaza, when he worked with the Bangladeshi pace bowlers in 2001.

His Test debut was against Zimbabwe at Dhaka in 2001-02, where he impressed with his energy. However, in only his third Test, against New Zealand Mortaza suffered a knee injury which kept him out of the game for nearly two years. He excelled in the second Test against England in 2003-04, taking 4 for 60 in the first innings to keep Bangladesh in touch, but suffered a twisted knee towards the end of the game that again kept him out of international cricket, for over a year on this occasion.

In the 2004 Test series against India, Mortaza announced his return by pegging back Rahul Dravid's off stump. He bowled consistently in the Test series, and had to endure watching chances off Tendulkar and Ganguly being dropped. He was also the man of the match in the historic one-day win over India in that series.

He was recalled towards the end of 2006, and subsequently enhanced his reputation on the inaugural tour of England, performing admirably in that series. He was by far the most economical of the Bangladeshi bowlers. Mortaza bowled magnificently in their huge upset against Australia in Cardiff, removing Adam Gilchrist for a duck and only conceding 33 runs from 10 overs.

Historically, Bangladesh always lacked a true fast bowler. There were always spinners and the team had a good spinner with Mohammad Rafique, but lacked good pace bowlers. Mashrafe seems to be ready to fulfill that role.

In the 3rd ODI of Bangladesh's tour to Zimbabwe in 2006, Mortaza was hit for 6 off the final ball of the match by Brendan Taylor, giving the Zimbabweans victory.

In the calendar year of 2006 Mortaza was the highest wicket taker in ODIs, taking 49 wickets.

Mortaza played the leading role in Bangladesh's victory over New Zealand in the warm-up match for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 taking 4 wickets with the ball and a crucial hard-hitting batting performance as a tailender. He was also the man of the match in Bangladesh's victory over India during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, taking 4 wickets for 38 runs.

Mortaza is known as Bangladesh's fastest bowler and is also known to fans as the "Narail Express" as he comes from the area.

Mortaza is also a hard-hitting batsmen. His most notable innings came in the 2nd ODI against India in Dhaka, where he smashed four consecutive sixes. His 25 runs off that over is the highest by any Bangladeshi batsmen. During the Tests later in the month, he made his maiden Test half-century in style with a 79, playing a vital role in securing a draw. In the next match he also scored 70, and ended up Bangladesh's highest scorer of runs as well as joint highest in wickets in the series, showing potential as an all-rounder.

He was rewarded for these performances by appointment as vice-captain of the team on June 2 2007.

[edit] Career Milestones

[edit] Tests

Test debut: vs Zimbabwean cricket team, Bangabandhu, 2001

• Mashrafe's best bowling performance came against England at MA Aziz, 2004

[edit] ODIs

ODI debut: vs Zimbabwe, MA Aziz, 2001

• Mortaza took 6 wickets for 26 runs in his career best performance against Kenya in 2006 at Nairobi

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Khaled Mashud (w) • 2 Al Sahariar • 3 Alok Kapali • 4 Akram Khan • 5 Habibul Bashar • 6 Hannan Sarkar • 7 Ehsanul Haque • 8 Sanwar Hossain • 9 Khaled Mahmud • 10 Manjural Islam • 11 Mashrafe Mortaza • 12 Mohammad Ashraful • 13 Mohammad Rafique • 14 Talha Jubair • 15 Tapash Baisya • 16 Tushar Imran • Coach: Mohsin Kamal & Ali Zia

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup 1 Habibul Bashar (c) • 2 Shahriar Nafees • 3 Tamim Iqbal • 4 Aftab Ahmed • 5 Saqibul Hasan • 6 Mohammad Ashraful • 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) • 8 Mohammad Rafique • 9 Abdur Razzak • 10 Mashrafe Mortaza • 11 Shahadat Hossain • 12 Tapash Baisya • 13 Syed Rasel • 14 Rajin Saleh • 15 Javed Omar • 16 Farhad Reza • Coach: Whatmore Baisya was injured during the world cup and replaced in the squad by Reza.

[edit] External links

• CricInfo Player Profile:Mashrafe bin Mortaza

Persondata
NAME	Mortaza, Mashrafe Bin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Bangladeshi cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	5 October 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norail, Khulna
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH