Bangladeshi cricketer
Mohammad Ashraful
(
Bengali
:
???????? ???????
; born 7 July 1984) is a Bangladeshi
cricketer
, who has represented the
Bangladesh men's national team
.
Between 2007 and 2009, Ashraful captained his country in 13 Tests, and 38
One Day Internationals
(ODIs) of which Bangladesh won eight. Ashraful has scored the fastest fifty in Test and ODI for any Bangladeshi cricketer.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
Ashraful also played domestic cricket for the
Dhaka Division cricket team
in Bangladesh's domestic
one-day
and
first-class
competitions, captaining both sides on occasion.
In 2014 the
Bangladesh Cricket Board
banned him for eight years after he was found guilty of
match fixing
. The ban was later reduced to 5 years with 2 years suspended.
[6]
At the end of the suspension, Ashraful returned to playing domestic cricket.
Domestic and T20 franchise cricket career
[
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]
Debut Season 2000-01
[
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]
Ashraful made his debut on 22 November 2000, playing for the
Dhaka Metropolis cricket team
. He opened the batting, scoring 41 and 6; Ashraful also claimed five wickets for 59 runs in the first innings with his
leg
-
spin bowling
.
[7]
Three days later Ashraful made his list A debut, again playing for Dhaka Metropolis. Opening the batting, he scored 22 and took two wickets as his team won the match.
[8]
Ashraful scored his maiden first-class
century
in his second match, making 101 against the
Khulna cricket team
.
[9]
The seven wickets Ashraful took for 99 runs in a match against
Chittagong Division
in January 2001 remain his best bowling figures.
[10]
[11]
Over the course of the 2000?01 season, he played ten first-class matches ? scoring 585 runs at an average of 30.78, including two centuries,
[12]
and taking 39 wickets at an average of 25.48, including three five-wicket hauls.
[13]
He also played nine list A matches, scoring 85 runs
[14]
and taking four wickets.
[15]
In November 2006, he set a league record score of 263, against
Chittagong Division
for Bangladeshi first-class cricket ? although this record has since been broken by
Raqibul Hasan
.
[16]
Sonargaon Cricketers
, a team in the
Dhaka Premier League
for the 2005?06 season,
[17]
signed Ashraful and
Mohammad Rafique
. The team lost four of its first five games and sought a change of leadership in an attempt to improve its results. He later played for Rainhill CC in a local cricket league in England.
[18]
2008-09 Season
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]
On 6 February 2009, Ashraful took part in the player auction for the
2009 Indian Premier League
. The
Mumbai Indians
bought him for his base price of US$75,000, but he only played one game and scored just 2 runs.
[19]
2011-12 Season
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]
He returned to domestic cricket in 2011, scoring a century for Dhaka Division in the opening match of the
National Cricket League
.
[20]
Dhaka won the
one-day competition
, and Ashraful, who was the second-highest run-getter with 331 runs, also claimed 7 wickets in 7 matches,
[21]
[22]
and was named player of the tournament.
[23]
For the 2011?12 season, the National Cricket League of Bangladesh was expanded from six first-class teams to eight. Dhaka Metropolis and
Rangpur Division
were the new teams, with Ashraful captaining the former.
[24]
Although he scored his first first-class century in over a year during the competition, Ashraful was dropped from the ODI squad to face
Pakistan in December
.
[25]
During a match in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League in January 2012, Ashraful was involved in an incident with
Tamim Iqbal
. This led to the latter being banned for one match and fined.
[26]
2017-18 Season
[
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]
He was the leading run-scorer for
Kala Bagan Krira Chakra
in the
2017?18 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League
, with 665 runs in 13 matches.
[27]
He was scheduled to play for Minister Group Rajshahi in Bangabandhu T20 cup.
[28]
Bangladesh Premier League
[
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]
Dhaka Gladiators
[
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]
The
Bangladesh Cricket Board
founded the six-team
Bangladesh Premier League
in 2012, a twenty20 tournament that was to be held in February of that year. The BCB made Ashraful the 'icon player' for the
Dhaka Gladiators
.
[29]
Dhaka won the tournament, and in twelve matches Ashraful scored a total of 258 runs, with an average of 28.66, making him the BPL's second highest run-scorer amongst Bangladeshi batsmen.
[30]
During the
2013 Bangladesh Premier League
, Ashraful scored 358 runs in 14 matches, with an average of 29.83 per match. He also scored a century (103* off 58) against the
Khulna Royal Bengals
.
[31]
[32]
International career
[
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]
Debut
[
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Ashraful made his
ODI
debut against
Zimbabwe
on 11 April 2001, where he scored only 9 runs and Bangladesh lost the match by 36 runs. He took his first international wicket in the match, that of
Andy Flower
.
[33]
Ashraful made his Test debut on 6 September 2001 against
Sri Lanka
. He scored highest in each inning, and although Bangladesh slumped to an innings defeat, Ashraful scored 114, becoming the youngest player to score a Test century, breaking
Mushtaq Mohammad
's record. As a result, he was named
man of the match
.
[nb 1]
[36]
He was the second Bangladesh player to score a
Test century on debut
after
Aminul Islam Bulbul
in 2000 during Bangladesh's first Test.
[37]
Trevor Chappell
, a former coach of Bangladesh's national side, commented that: "his determination, commitment and attention to detail would put a mature and an established person to shame. The manner he concentrates on his batting made me believe that the lad is destined to have a long cricketing journey."
[38]
Following Ashraful's debut century, however, a prolonged string of poor performances resulted in him being dropped from the national team.
2003 - 2005. Patchy form
[
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]
Ashraful performed poorly in his first World Cup, the
2003 Cricket World Cup
, scoring 71 runs at an
average
of 14.20, with Bangladesh being eliminated during the group stage.
In February and March 2004,
Bangladesh toured Zimbabwe
. At the time, Zimbabwe was without many of their senior players, but the home team still won the Test series 1?0 and the ODI series 2?1.
[39]
The solitary ODI victory was Bangladesh's first international win since defeating Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup; Ashraful scored 51 runs from 32 balls in the match and was named man of the match.
[40]
Ashraful played with his team against India in December 2004 and scored his second century, 158
not out
, claiming the record for the highest individual Test score by a Bangladeshi.
[41]
India's team captain,
Sourav Ganguly
, described the innings as one of the best Test innings he had seen.
[38]
In
May and June 2005
, Bangladesh toured England for a two-Test series against the hosts and a triangular ODI tournament with England and Australia. Although they won just one ODI out of six, their solitary victory against Australia was described by
Wisden
as "the biggest upset in one-day international history".
[42]
Ashraful scored 100, which rendered his team victorious, and was named Man of the Match. He scored two more half-centuries in the series,
[42]
finishing with 259 runs at an average of 43.16, making him third-highest run scorer in the series.
[43]
2006 - 2007. Patchy form continues
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]
In 2006 he scored his third century, with 136 runs during the first test against
Sri Lanka
. Ashraful was selected for the Asian squad in the inaugural
Afro-Asia Cup
. With bowler
Mashrafe Mortaza
, he was one of two Bangladeshi players in the 15-man squad.
[44]
Ashraful played in two of the matches, but failed to score a run.
[45]
The opening match of the
two-Test series against Sri Lanka
in February and March 2006 was played at the
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium
, the first international match hosted at that stadium.
[46]
He scored 136 runs in the first innings, his third Test century; he received the man of the match award, although Sri Lanka won by eight wickets.
[47]
Bangladesh lost the second Test by ten wickets, with Ashraful managing 37 runs in the match and claiming the wicket of
Mahela Jayawardene
. Sri Lanka eventually won the series 2?0.
[48]
The
West Indies
hosted the
2007 Cricket World Cup
in March and April; Ashraful was included in the 15-man squad led by
Habibul Bashar
.
[49]
Bangladesh made it to the second stage of the competition and finished seventh place.
[50]
Along the way, the team tried to knock
India
out of the tournament.
[51]
Ashraful scored 87 runs from 83 balls against South Africa in the course of Bangladesh's 67-run victory. His innings was the highest score by a Bangladeshi player in the World Cup and he was named man of the match for his performance.
[52]
With 216 runs from 9 matches at an average of 36, Ashraful was Bangladesh's highest run-scorer in the tournament.
[53]
Captaincy (2007?2009)
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Ashraful's record as captain
|
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Matches
|
Won
|
Lost
|
Drawn
|
Test
[54]
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13
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0
|
12
|
1
|
ODI
[55]
|
38
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8
|
30
|
?
|
T20I
[56]
|
11
|
2
|
9
|
?
|
Shortly after the World Cup,
India toured Bangladesh
for two Test matches and three ODIs. During the second Test, which Bangladesh lost by multiple innings and 239 runs, Ashraful scored the fastest half-century in Test cricket history in terms of time (taking 27 minutes), which was also the second-fastest in terms of balls faced (scored off 26 balls).
[57]
[58]
Aside from the 67 innings he scored in one of the fastest half-centuries in Test cricket history, Ashraful managed only five more runs in the series;
[59]
in two ODIs, he scored 41 runs.
[60]
After defeats in both series,
Habibul Bashar
stepped down as Bangladesh's captain; Mohammad Ashraful was appointed the team captain on 2 June 2007. At the time, he had played 35 Tests and 101 ODIs and had some experience with captaincy at the domestic level. Aged 22, he was the second-youngest international captain at the time.
[61]
Ashraful and Mortaza took on these roles from the start of the
Sri Lanka tour
in June 2007. Coach
Dav Whatmore
had declined to extend his contract and Shaun Williams took over as coach on a temporary basis. Bangladesh lost all three Tests in terms of innings. In the second Test, they registered their lowest score in innings (62). Ashraful scored the most runs (218) for Bangladesh at an average of 43.
[62]
In the second Test, Ashraful and wicketkeeper
Mushfiqur Rahim
scored 191 combined for the sixth wicket,
[63]
and Ashraful scored 129 "not out".
[64]
Bangladesh also lost the three-match ODI series that followed 3?0.
[62]
In September 2007, South Africa hosted the
ICC World Twenty20
. Victory against the West Indies in the first round was enough to ensure Bangladesh's progression to the second round, although they failed to win any of the other matches. In the match against the West Indies, Ashraful scored a record-breaking half-century, with 20 ball deliveries. At the time, it was the fastest T20I half-century in terms of balls faced; he held the record for six days before it was broken by
Yuvraj Singh
in a match against England.
[65]
[66]
During the first Test match of
South Africa's 2007?08 tour
, Ashraful
dismissed
AB de Villiers
in an unusual fashion: after the ball left his hand it bounced twice, at which point de Villiers attempted to hit the ball but instead sent it straight up.
[67]
Ashraful caught the ball and, despite de Villiers standing his ground, umpire
Steve Bucknor
confirmed the dismissal. The dismissal was legal per Section 6 of Law 24 of the
Laws of Cricket
, which states the ball must bounce
more
than twice or roll along the ground to be deemed a
no-ball
.
[68]
[69]
After an extended run of poor form and Bangladesh's first-round exit in the
2009 World Twenty20
, Ashraful was dismissed as captain in June 2009. He was replaced by Mashrafe Mortaza for the tour of the West Indies, with Shakib Al Hasan as vice-captain. It was hoped that Ashraful could improve his performance in the international game following his dismissal as captain.
[70]
Ashraful later captained Bangladesh's team again at the
2010 Asian Games
in late November.
[71]
They played
Afghanistan
in the final; Bangladesh won by five wickets, securing the country's first gold medal at the Asian Games.
[72]
Post-captaincy (2009?present)
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Ashraful was dropped when
England toured Bangladesh
in February and March 2010. He was recalled for
Bangladesh's tour of England
two months later. He struggled in June's
2010 Asia Cup
, and was subsequently dropped; he was recalled for the ODI leg of the England tour due to injuries to the squad.
[74]
After a poor run of form, Ashraful was dropped from the
ODI series against New Zealand
in October 2010.
[75]
Though he was out of the squad, the following month when the BCB announced its central contracts for the coming year Ashraful was one of six players given the highest level of contract (A+).
[74]
The West Indies toured Bangladesh in October, but after scoring just two runs,
[76]
Ashraful was dropped from the Test squad.
[77]
Shortly after winning the Asian Games in 2010, Ashraful was recalled to Bangladesh's full squad for the
five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe
in December.
[78]
Though they lost the first match, Bangladesh went on to win the next three, with one called off due to rain, and defeated Zimbabwe 3?1.
[79]
Ashraful played one match, scoring six runs.
[80]
He was included in Bangladesh's 15-man squad for the
2011 Cricket World Cup
, co-hosted by Bangladesh along with India and Sri Lanka.
[81]
In three matches, Ashraful scored only 18 runs and was dropped from the squad for the three-match ODI series against Australia that followed.
[82]
In and Out from team
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In April he captained
Bangladesh A
on a tour of South Africa and his performance, including striking a one-day century,
[83]
[84]
earned him a recall to the senior squad to face Zimbabwe in August.
[85]
In the one-off Test, Ashraful scored the most runs for his team with a total of 112, including a half-century, even though Bangladesh was defeated.
[86]
Bangladesh lost the following ODI series against Zimbabwe 3?2. Bangladesh's batsmen struggled early in the series,
[87]
and Ashraful scored 23 runs during three matches.
[88]
He was retained for the Test side for the Pakistan series in 2012, but was dropped after the first Test, in which he scored only one run.
[89]
When the BCB announced its central contracts for 2012, Ashraful's A+ contract was not renewed.
[90]
In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the
Chittagong Vikings
team, following the draft for the
2018?19 Bangladesh Premier League
.
[91]
Controversies
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In March 2008, Ashraful slapped a fan who called him "rubbish" while he was training at an indoor stadium in
Dhaka
. This took place at a time when Ashraful was being heavily criticised in the media for his poor performance and questionable tactics on the field as captain. The BCB fined him 25% of his salary for the month of March 2008 for violating the Code of Conduct. He later apologised for the incident.
[92]
Spot-fixing controversy
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Mohammad Ashraful admitted to
spot-fixing
during the
2013 Bangladesh Premier League
.
[93]
[94]
The
Bangladesh Cricket Board
suspended him from the game temporarily until the
ICC
's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit submitted its report on its investigations into the fixing.
[95]
The alleged fixing involved a match between the
Dhaka Gladiators
and the
Chittagong Vikings
during the second edition of the BPL on 2 February 2013. The then-28-year-old Ashraful was allegedly paid about $12,800 to lose the match, but the cheque he was given later bounced, according to the local media. He was also allegedly involved in fixing another match 10 days later, against the Barisal Burners, which his team lost by seven wickets.
[96]
In June 2014, the Bangladesh Cricket Board found him responsible and banned him for eight years, which was later reduced to five years (with two years suspended).
[6]
[97]
In August 2016, Ashraful's ban was partially lifted, allowing him to play in domestic cricket in Bangladesh.
[98]
He became eligible to play in international fixtures in 2018.
[98]
In 2022, Ashraful played for
Lullington Park Cricket Club
in the Derbyshire County Cricket League.
[99]
Notes
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]
- ^
There has been some uncertainty regarding his birth date ? some sources claim it is 7 July,
[34]
but others, as well as his passport, record it as 9 September;
[35]
although either date would qualify him for his world record status (previously held by
Pakistani
Mushtaq Mohammad
, aged 17 years 82 days in 1960?1).
[36]
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