Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim

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One of Bangladesh's longest-serving and most refined cricketers, wicketkeeper-hitter Mushfiqur Rahim started out as a trump card inclusion for the group's lady tour of England, in 2005, matured 18, during which he became the most youthful player to show up in a Test match at Master's.

Mushfiqur captained in the Under-19 World Cup in February 2006, and highlighted in a Test in Bogra (that setting's first) against Sri Lanka the following month, however he could make little of the spin of Murali and Malinga Bandara. His first Test fifty came on the return tour of Sri Lanka the following year. Prior in 2007, he was picked as the first-decision wicketkeeper, in front of Khaled Mashud, for the World Cup in the West Indies - where he featured in Bangladesh's milestone rout of India, anchoring the pursuit of 192 with 56 not out.

Mushfiqur came into his own as a Test player in the 2010s, stepping up to No. 4, shedding the picture of lower-request scrapper, taking on the mantle of trustworthy mainstay, and proving himself one of the better players of spin in the Bangladesh line-up. His first hundred, the fastest by a Bangladesh hitter then, came against India in Chattogram in 2010, and was followed two Tests later by 72 and 95 against England at a similar scene.

After routs on the Test and white-ball legs of the series in Zimbabwe in 2011, he was appointed captain instead of Shakib Al Hasan, a job he served in for 94 internationals, through to 2018 - however the white-ball part of his residency endured only till 2014. Features of his term included a first-time place in the Asia Cup final in 2012 and a whitewash of Zimbabwe in a Test series at home in 2014.

In 2013, Mushfiqur delivered a twofold hundred years against Sri Lanka in Galle in a Bangladesh total of 638, their most noteworthy. In 2017, there were consecutive hundreds against New Zealand and India away - however they couldn't fight off routs. In Mirpur in 2018 and 2020, he scored twofold hundreds against Zimbabwe in consecutive Tests against them 15 months separated; the first of those made him the first wicketkeeper-hitter to score two Test twofold hundreds. His number one opponents, however, have been Sri Lanka, against whom he midpoints more than 50 - supported, most as of late, by consecutive hundreds in the 2022 home series. Against them in 2017, he became the first Bangladesh wicketkeeper to get to 100 excusals in Tests.

Mushfiqur became the first to play 100 games in the BPL, in 2023. He has been among the leading run-scorers in the tournament for various years since the league started off, turning out for Rajshahi Royals and Khulna Tigers most frequently.