Mushfiqur Rahim

Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim

Mohammad Rahim

Bangladesh Bangladesh

Overview

Full Name Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim
Age 37y 208d
Born Saturday, May 9, 1987, Bangladesh
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Style -
Playing Role Wicket Keeper

Awards

ICC Men's Player of the Month
ICC Men's Player of the Month - May 2021

Biography

While youngsters of his age were busy charting their next career move, Mushfiqur Rahim at 16 had already gone down in history books as one of the youngest debutants in the history of the game.

Selected as the understudy of then keeper Khaled Mashud for the England tour, Mushfiqur played his first Test as a specialist batsman but went on to have a rather forgettable debut. The agony increased with an ankle injury ruling him out from the second game but after leading Bangladesh in the 2006 Under-19 World Cup, he was once again called up for a Test against Sri Lanka. However, he was all at sea against the spin bowling of Muttiah Muralidaran. Dropped in the aftermath, the glove-man however, had the stars on his side in 2006, as he received his maiden ODI call-up and also debuted against Zimbabwe. Just one half century prior to the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was deemed good enough by the selectors for him to make it to the event ahead of a struggling Mashud. He contributed 56 runs as Bangladesh pulled off a shock win over India and a year after his axing, also returned to Test cricket scoring a stoic 80 in a losing cause against the Lankans.

In 2010, he scored his maiden Test ton against the Indians and soon became a mainstay in the team having vice captained the side on several occasions. The following year, he was named captain of the team after Shakib Al Hasan's sacking post the disastrous Zimbabwe tour, where the side lost the only Test as well as the ODI series. A constant chatterer, Mushfiqur is also renowned for his vociferous appealing and jumping behind the stumps and is indispensable to the Bangladesh team.

Debut
Bangladesh vs England at London - Thursday, May 26, 2005

Batting

Matches 94
Innings 174
Runs 6007
100's - 50's 11 - 27
Sixes - Fours 36 - 713
Average 37.77
Strike Rate 48.47
Highest Score (vs Zimbabwe, 11/11/2018) 219

Bowling

Matches 0
Innings 0
Overs 0
Wickets 0
Economy Rate 0
Five-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Ten-Wicket Haul Innings 0
Best Figures (vs 0, 0) 0

Fielding

Catches 111
Stumpings 15
Run Outs 3

Career Runs

766
576
384
192
Runs
Years