mohammad ashraful Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
mohammad ashraful is a cricketer(sportsman) from Bangladesh. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mohammad Ashraful
Born
July 07, 1984, Dhaka
Age
39 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak, Legbreak
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 61 | 177 | 23 | 1 |
Inn | 119 | 169 | 23 | 1 |
Runs | 2737 | 3468 | 450 | 2 |
Avg | 24.01 | 22.23 | 19.57 | 2.0 |
SR | 46.08 | 70.1 | 125.35 | 20.0 |
HS | 190 | 109 | 65 | 2 |
NO | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
100s | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 8 | 20 | 2 | 0 |
4s | 335 | 355 | 47 | 0 |
6s | 22 | 28 | 11 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 61 | 177 | 23 | 1 |
Inn | 67 | 40 | 8 | - |
Balls | 1733 | 697 | 138 | - |
Runs | 1271 | 661 | 210 | - |
Wkt | 21 | 18 | 8 | - |
BBI | 42 / 2 | 26 / 3 | 42 / 3 | - |
BBM | 75 / 3 | 26 / 3 | 42 / 3 | - |
Eco | 4.4 | 5.69 | 9.13 | - |
Avg | 60.52 | 36.72 | 26.25 | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Bangladesh
- Asia XI
- Bangladesh A
- Central Zone (Bangladesh)
- Dhaka Division
- Dhaka Gladiators
- Dhaka Metropolis
- Minister Rajshahi
- Mumbai Indians
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He had announced his arrival with a majestic century at the tender age of seventeen against the likes of Muralitharan. He had become the youngest player ever to score a Test ton. So saying that the expectations were huge would be a gross understatement.
However he, like many others before him, lost his way and form after the initial success. He was dropped in 2003 after a string of poor performances. He made a comeback in 2004 and continued to awe everyone. This time made 158 in a Test at Chittagong against India. It earned him high praise and Sourav Ganguly called it one of the best knocks he had ever seen. This was followed up by another ton, this time against World Champions Australia, in an ODI. Bangladesh handed them a shock defeat in Cardiff and Ashraful was the star once more.
Form deserted the talented Ashraful once again and he was dropped for a while in 2006. He came back strongly though and scored a ton against the Sri Lankans. He was soon appointed as the captain across all formats for Bangladesh in 2007. It was a huge responsibility for someone who was just 22. Ashraful, started well though, scoring a hundred against Sri Lanka in his first match as captain. It was all downhill after that. Bangladesh failed to make any progress under his leadership and his personal form dipped considerably. He was finally relieved off the captaincy duties in 2009 so that he could concentrate on his batting. It has not resulted in much of a change though as Ashraful continues to flatter to deceive. A batting average of 22 and 23 in Tests and ODIs is not what is expected from someone who was widely regarded as Bangladesh's most talented batsman. With age on his side a lot of fans fervently wish that he changes his fortunes around and does so quickly.
Ashraful was involved in spot fixing controversy in 2013, which he admitted to have done in the Bangladesh Premier League. He was allegedly paid around $12,800 to lose a match against Chittagong Kings in the second edition of BPL. However, the cheque which was given later bounced. He was also involved in another match 10 days later against Barisal Burners. The BCB reacted immediately and suspended him from all forms of the game, until ICC's Anti-Corruption submits its report on the investigation.
Fact: He got the highest Test score by a Bangladeshi cricketer in the match against Sri Lanka in March 2013. However, the record was beaten on the same day by his skipper Mushfiqur Rahim who went past Ashraful's 190 to get a double hundred.
By Ganesh ChandrasekaranAs of April 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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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