Mohammad Ashraful

Bangladesh|Middle order Batter
Mohammad Ashraful
INTL CAREER: 2001 - 2013
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Full Name

Mohammad Ashraful

Born

July 07, 1984, Dhaka

Age

39y 256d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak, Legbreak

Playing Role

Middle order Batter

How Bangladesh cricket will view Mohammad Ashraful remains up for debate. For several years this boy wonder raised the country's cricket to a surfer's optimism from the debilitating quicksand that was their initiation into Test cricket since 2000, only to let the country and the sport down when he admitted to his involvement in match-fixing and spot-fixing in the Bangladesh Premier League.

As a batsman, the trouble with Ashraful has been his inconsistency. As long as you enjoy the highlight reel of his career, everything seems rosy: whether it was in becoming the youngest Test centurion in 2001, the unbeaten 158 against India in 2004, the magnificent 100 he made against Australia in Cardiff in 2005 triggering a huge upset, or the innovative 87 against South Africa in the 2007 World Cup, Ashraful provided the entertainment quotient that turned heads towards Bangladesh. When he made a comeback in 2013 after being dropped due to poor form, he made 190 against Sri Lanka.

But one look at the overall numbers, and it is easy to realise why some of his fans have given up on him. The fact that he has a score of 50 or more roughly 15% of the time he has batted in international cricket is one of those markers, like his batting average, that pulls him down as a batsman. Is it easy to say that he has underachieved, but those who have dealt with him over the years think otherwise, as they have been surprised by his own lack of confidence in his immense talent.

His rise from the outskirts of Dhaka to cricket's wonderboy has been well documented. He trained under Wahidul Gani, a dedicated coach who ran his academy in Dhanmondi, before making his club debut for Amorjyoti. After warming the benches for the star-studded Surjo Tarun in the Dhaka Premier League in 2000-01, he made it to the Bangladesh team on the back of a lot of promise and because the selectors were too focused on youth.

After his 2007 World Cup performance, the media wanted to see their golden boy take to captaincy, but it didn't work out well. He immediately fell further as a batsman in his two-year stint that also saw the loss of players to the Indian Cricket League in 2008. There were allegations of him being willing to play in the rebel league. He lost his captaincy to Mashrafe Mortaza after his affinity for a dab past the wicketkeeper cost Bangladesh a game against Ireland in the 2009 World Twenty20. And as the team started to have more performers, he lost his place regularly in the next few years. However, in March 2013, he made 190 against Sri Lanka in the Galle Test, an evolved innings which earned fulsome praise.

However, just when it seemed it was all going to change for Ashraful, he was hauled up by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit into alleged spot-fixing claims during the season's BPL. He confessed to his involvement in match-fixing and was "kept away" from all forms of cricket by the Bangladesh Cricket Board pending the submission of the ACSU report.
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Mohammad Ashraful Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests611195273719024.00594046.076833522250
ODIs17716913346810922.23494770.1032035429350
T20Is232304506519.56356126.4002481140
FC18333110919226328.63--2142--870
List A280268256185141*25.45--1131--650
T20s878261694103*22.281477114.691518236240

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests616717331271212/423/7560.524.4082.5000
ODIs17740697661183/263/2636.725.6938.7000
T20Is23813821083/423/4226.259.1317.2000
FC183-1288074872147/99-34.983.4860.1-70
List A280-26692269745/235/2330.665.1036.0110
T20s8726371488253/133/1319.527.8914.8000
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Recent Matches of Mohammad Ashraful

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Mohammedan vs Leopards27--17-Apr-2023FatullahList A
East Z (BD) vs North Z (BD)71/39 & 0/4125-Feb-2023Cox's BazarFC
East Z (BD) vs South Z (BD)49 & 502/29 & 0/2626-Dec-2022Cox's BazarFC
East Z (BD) vs Cent Z (BD)7 & 10/2119-Dec-2022RajshahiFC
Barishal DIV vs Dhaka Metro36 & 530/414-Nov-2022SylhetFC

Photos of Mohammad Ashraful

Mohammad Ashraful was named Man of the Match
Mohammad Ashraful scored 39, the second-highest in Dhaka Metropolis' innings
Mohammad Ashraful playing in an unaffiliated cricket tournament in New York
Mohammad Ashraful and BCB president Nazmul Hassan at their first public meeting since the former's confession
Mohammad Ashraful at a media interaction in Dhaka
Mohammad Ashraful skies one