Imrul Kayes

Imrul Kayes
Personal information
Full name Imrul Kayes
Born 2 February 1987
Meherpur, Bangladesh
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style Left handed
Role Batsman, occasional Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
  • Bangladesh
Test debut (cap 53) 19 November 2008 v South Africa
Last Test 2 November 2011 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 92) 14 October 2008 v New Zealand
Last ODI 9 March 2015 v England
ODI shirt no. 62
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006–present Khulna Division
2013–present Rangpur Riders
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 19 54 69 112
Runs scored 868 1,392 4,304 3,542
Batting average 22.84 26.26 34.15 33.41
100s/50s 2/1 1/10 11/15 6/21
Top score 130 101 204 133*
Balls bowled 12 – 117 36
Wickets 0 – 2 2
Bowling average – – 65.00 17.50
5 wickets in innings 0 – 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 – 0 0
Best bowling – – 1/7 2/18
Catches/stumpings 19/– 17/– 37/– 41/2
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 4 March 2014

Imrul Kayes (Bengali: ইমরুল কায়েস) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer who plays for Khulna Division as a left-hand batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. He made his first-class debut in 2006, playing 15 first-class matches and 16 One Day matches before being called up for the third One Day International between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Chittagong.

Batting at number three, he made just 12 runs as Bangladesh lost by 79 runs.[1]

He made his Test debut in November 2008, playing the first match of a series in South Africa.[2] He opened the batting on his debut, but made just 10 and 4 in his two innings, being dismissed twice on the second afternoon of the match.

He later found form in 2010 scoring 867 runs, becoming the 5th highest runs scorer of the year in ODIs at an average of 32.11. He scored his maiden ODI century against New Zealand. When the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced its list of central contracts in November 2010, Kayes has given a grade B contract.[3]

Bangladesh failed to progress beyond the group stage of the 2011 World Cup; Kayes was Bangladesh's leading run-scorer in the tournament with 188 runs at an average of 37.60.[4] During the tournament, he produced two Man-of-the-Match performances, striking fifties against England and the Netherlands to help Bangladesh to victory on each occasion, though he felt bowler Shafiul Islam deserved the first award instead. With Manjural Islam Rana he became just the second Bangladesh player to win consecutive Man-of-the-Match awards in ODIs.[5]

The BCB founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year.[6] An auction was held for teams to buy players,[7] and Kayes was bought by the Sylhet Royals for $50,000.[8] He scored 102 runs from 7 innings in the competition.[9] In April the BCB upgraded Kayes' central contract from grade B to grade A.[10]

International Centuries

Test centuries[11]
Num Score Opponent Venue/City Year Result
1 115  Sri Lanka Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 2014 Drawn
2 130  Zimbabwe Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 2014 Won
3 132*  Pakistan Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Khulna 2015 Ongoing
ODI centuries[12]
Num Score Opponent Venue/City Year Result
1 101  New Zealand Ami stadium, Christchurch 2010 Lost

Notes

  1. ↑ Bangladesh v New Zealand in 2008/9, Cricket World, 14 October 2008
  2. ↑ "Cricinfo – South Africa must show aggressive intent". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  3. ↑ Ashraful handed top-level central contract, ESPNcricinfo, 1 November 2010, retrieved 1 April 2012
  4. ↑ "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 / Records / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Monga, Sidharth (14 March 2011). "Shakib hails Shafiul as key". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  6. ↑ Engineer, Tariq (28 December 2011), Bangladesh Premier League to begin on February 9, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  7. ↑ Isam, Mohammad (19 January 2012), Afridi and Gayle fetch highest BPL prices, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  8. ↑ Bangladesh Premier League: players standing after auction (PDF), ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  9. ↑ Bangladesh Premier League, 2011/12 / Records / Most runs, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 21 March 2012
  10. ↑ Ashraful chopped from central contracts list, ESPNcricinfo, 1 April 2012, retrieved 2 April 2012
  11. ↑ "Imrul Kayes Test Centuries: Statsguru". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  12. ↑ "Imrul Kayes Test Centuries: Statsguru". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

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