Mashrafe Mortaza
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 20 | 59 |
| Runs scored | 283 | 556 |
| Batting average | 8.57 | 16.08 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/1 |
| Top score | 48 | 51* |
| Balls bowled | 3560 | 494.2 |
| Wickets | 50 | 85 |
| Bowling average | 37.42 | 27.13 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 4/60 | 6/26 |
| Catches/stumpings | 5/0 | 20/0 |
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As of 25 March 2007 |
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Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Bengali: মাশরাফি বিন মুর্তজা ) (born 5 October 1983 in Narail District, Jessore) is a Bangladeshi cricketer.
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[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.
Mortaza is known as Bangladesh's fastest bowler and is also known to fans as the "Narail Express" as he come from the area
[edit] Career Milestones
[edit] Tests
Test debut: vs Zimbabwean cricket team, Bangabandhu, 2001
[edit] ODIs
ODI debut: vs Zimbabwe, MA Aziz, 2001
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Bangladesh squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Bashar (c) | 2 Nafees | 3 Tamim | 4 Aftab | 5 Saqibul | 6 Ashraful | 7 Rahim (wk) | 8 Rafique | 9 Razzak | 10 Mortaza | 11 Shahadat | 12 Baisya | 13 Rasel | 14 Saleh | 15 Omar | 16 Reza | Coach: Whatmore Baisya was injured during the world cup and replaced in the squad by Reza. |
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Bangladesh squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Mashud (w) | 2 Al Sahariar | 3 Kapali | 4 Akram | 5 Bashar | 6 Sarkar | 7 Ehsanul | 8 Sanwar | 9 Mahmud | 10 Manjural | 11 Mortaza | 12 Ashraful | 13 Rafique | 14 Jubair | 15 Baisya | 16 Imran | Coach: Kamal & Zia |
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| NAME | Mortaza, Mashrafe Bin |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Bangladeshi cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5 October 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norail, Khulna |
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