Saghir Hossain

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Gazi Saghir Hossain is a First-class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. He was born on 14th August 1986 in Khulna and is a right handed batsman and wicket-keeper who is sometimes referred to on scoresheets by his nickname Pavel. He played for Khulna Division from 2004/05 through 2006/07 and has also appeared for Bangladesh age group representative teams and the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in 2004/05 and Bangladesh A in 2006 and 2007.

He has taken an impressive 88 catches and completed 10 stumpings in that time and scored his maiden first class hundred, 101, against Chittagong Division. He's scored 9 first class fifties and 2 more in the one day game.


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Saghir Hossain
Batting style Right hand batsman
Bowling type Unknown
First-class List A
Matches 31 20
Runs scored 1477 350
Batting average 26.37 20.58
100s/50s 1/9 -/2
Top score 101 66
Balls bowled 66 0
Wickets 2 0
Bowling average 33.50 -
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - -
Best bowling 1/9 -
Catches/stumpings 88/10 16/11

Debut: 12th February, 2005
Last appearance: 4th April, 2007
Source: http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/61/61460/61460.html