Habibul Bashar

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Habibul Bashar
Bangladesh
Personal information
Full name	Qazi Habibul Bashar
Nickname	Sumon
Born	17 August 1972 (1972-08-17) (age 35)
	Nagakanda, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Role	Batsman
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm Off spin
International information
Test debut (cap 4)	10 November 2000: v India
Last Test	14 July 2007: v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 29)	6 April 1995: v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	12 May 2007: v India
ODI shirt no.	7
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2003-2006	Khulna Division
2000-2001	Biman Bangladesh Airlines
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	47	111	77	149
Runs scored	2953	2168	4731	3302
Batting average	32.09	21.68	33.55	24.64
100s/50s	3/24	0/14	6/34	0/24
Top score	113	78	224	83
Balls bowled	282	175	802	670
Wickets	0	1	8	8
Bowling average	-	142.00	64.12	62.37
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	-	1/31	2/28	2/17
Catches/stumpings	21/–	26/-	32/-	32/-
As of 30 August 2007 Source: cricketarchive.com

Qazi Habibul Bashar (Bengali: হাবিবুল বাশার) (born August 17, 1972 in Nagakanda, Kushtia) is a Bangladeshi cricketer, and the former captain of the Bangladeshi cricket team. He was Bangladesh's most successful captain with the only Test series victory and ODI wins against Australia, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa under his belt, and is a test batsman.

[edit] Early career

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In 1989 Bashar played for the Bangladesh Under-19 team in the U-19 Asia Cup. Through the 1990's he played his domestic cricket for Biman Bangladesh Airlines. His ODI debut came at the 1995 Asia Cup against Sri Lanka. He missed the 1997 ICC Trophy, in which Bangladesh were the champions but did play in the Asia Cup of that year. He was also left out of the 1999 World Cup squad. After the World Cup he again entered the team and with Eddie Barlow’s inspiration he got the chance to play more.

Keeping up with the traditional inconsistency with announcing the side, Bashar was again out of the team for Bangladesh’s inaugural test. His consistent performance before the test drew the attention of the press and after heavy criticism from them he was finally included in the side. Bashar made the first fifty in the history of Bangladesh test cricket to prove his ability.

[edit] Career Story

Bashar is one of Bangladesh's leading batsmen. As of May 2007, he is the only Bangladeshi with a Test batting average greater than 30, he has also scored 24 fifties (a Bangladeshi record) plus three Test centuries.

Bashar was the captain of Bangladesh from January 2004 to June 2007, during this time he led the team to some notable successes. When Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh in January 2005, Bangladesh recorded their first Test match win, their first Test series win, and their first One Day International series win. In June 2005, Bangladesh beat the world champions Australia in a one-day international in Cardiff. In April 2006, they came close to beating Australia in a Test match, taking a first-innings lead of 158, eventually losing by three wickets. Bangladesh lost the ODI series with Zimbabwe in August 2006 by 3-2, but beat them in the last qualifying match of the Champions Trophy. Thanks to these efforts, Bangladesh are currently above Zimbabwe in the LG ICC ODI rankings, and showing that they are improving by the match.

Bashar had a disappointing 2007 World Cup as a batsman, with an average of only 13.12 and a highest score of 32. In spite of this, Bangladesh performed relatively well. Following a 1-0 test series defeat to India, Bashar resigned as ODI captain but wanted to remain part of the ODI team. However, despite stating that he wanted to continue to be test captain, Bashar was removed from this position on June 2, 2007 and replaced by Mohammad Ashraful who also took over as ODI captain.

[edit] Career Milestones

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Bashar's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

[edit] Tests

Test Debut: vs India, Bangabandhu, 2000

• He made his highest score of 113 in Test cricket against West Indies, 2004

[edit] ODIs

ODI Debut: vs Sri Lanka, Sharjah, 1995

• He made his highest score of 78 in ODI cricket against Zimbabwe, 2007

[edit] External links

• Player Profile from Cricinfo
• Player Profile from CricketArchive
• Player Profile from Banglacricket
• Bangladesh Test batting averages from Cricinfo

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Khaled Mashud (w) • 2 Al Sahariar • 3 Alok Kapali • 4 Akram Khan • 5 Habibul Bashar • 6 Hannan Sarkar • 7 Ehsanul Haque • 8 Sanwar Hossain • 9 Khaled Mahmud • 10 Manjural Islam • 11 Mashrafe Mortaza • 12 Mohammad Ashraful • 13 Mohammad Rafique • 14 Talha Jubair • 15 Tapash Baisya • 16 Tushar Imran • Coach: Mohsin Kamal & Ali Zia

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup 1 Habibul Bashar (c) • 2 Shahriar Nafees • 3 Tamim Iqbal • 4 Aftab Ahmed • 5 Saqibul Hasan • 6 Mohammad Ashraful • 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) • 8 Mohammad Rafique • 9 Abdur Razzak • 10 Mashrafe Mortaza • 11 Shahadat Hossain • 12 Tapash Baisya • 13 Syed Rasel • 14 Rajin Saleh • 15 Javed Omar • 16 Farhad Reza • Coach: Whatmore Baisya was injured during the world cup and replaced in the squad by Reza.