Mominul Haque

Mominul Haque (born 29 September 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for Dhaka Division. He plays for Sylhet Royals in the Bangladesh Premier League. Haque made his first-class debut during the 2008-09 season, against Chittagong Division. From the middle order, he scored 22 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 2 not out in the second. Haque bowled four overs during the match, which finished as a draw as there was no play in the game's first two days. He made his test debut against Sri Lanka on 8 March 2013 at Galle, Sri Lanka. He scored a half century in his debut and ended up scoring 156 runs in 3 innings at an impressive average of 52.00 in his maiden test series. During the Bangladesh Premier League, 2012, he won the Man of the Match award for scoring 53* off 28 balls for his team Barisal Burners against the Khulna Royal Bengals to guide his team to a 4 wicket victory,^[1]

He made his first century in Test match against New Zealand in Chittagong in 2013, off just 100 balls.

In the second Test of the series, Mominul scored another century. As of 28 April 2015, Mominul became the 7th batsman in cricket history to score 50+ runs in 10 consecutive test matches. Despite having played less than 15 test matches, Mominul currently holds the distinction of having the second highest test average in history with 63.90 runs.

Test centuries

#	Runs	Match	Opponent	Venue	City	Country	Year	Result
1	181	4	New Zealand	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Chittagong	Bangladesh	2013	Drawn
2	126*	5	New Zealand	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	Dhaka	Bangladesh	2013	Drawn
3	100*	7	Sri Lanka	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Chittagong	Bangladesh	2014	Drawn
4	131*	12	Zimbabwe	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Chittagong	Bangladesh	2014	Won

Leading Test batting averages ranked in order of average

(Source: Cricinfo Statsguru 14 January 2015)

Rank	Batsman	Tests	Innings	N.O.	Runs	Highest	Ave[2]	Career dates
1	Donald Bradman	52	80	10	6996	334	99.94	1928-1948
2	Mominul Haque	12	23	4	1198	181	63.90	2013–Present
3	R. G. Pollock	23	41	4	2256	274	60.97	1963–1970
4	G. A. Headley	22	40	4	2190	270*	60.83	1930–1954
5	H. Sutcliffe	54	84	9	4555	194	60.73	1924–1935
6	E. Paynter	20	31	5	1540	243	59.23	1931–1939
7	K. F. Barrington	82	131	15	6806	256	58.67	1955–1968
8	K. C. Sangakkara	130	225	17	12203	319	58.66	2000– Present
9	E.D. Weekes	48	81	5	4455	207	58.61	1948–1958
10	W. R. Hammond	85	140	16	7249	336*	58.45	1927–1947

Table shows players with at least 20 innings completed.

* denotes not out.

For more comprehensive statistics see List of cricket batting averages.

References

1. ↑ "Barisal Burners v Khulna Royal Bengals, 22 February 2012 - day/night (20-over match)". Retrieved 24 February 2012. 
2. ↑ "Test Career Highest Batting Averages". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 12 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-12. 

External links

• Player profile: Mominul Haque from CricketArchive
• Player profile: Mominul Haque from ESPNcricinfo

Bangladesh squad – 2014 ICC World Twenty20 9 Mushfiqur Rahim (c) & (wk) 30 Mahmudullah (vc) 41 Abdur Razzak 4 Al-Amin Hossain 66 Anamul Haque (wk) 76 Farhad Reza 2 Mashrafe Mortaza 68 Mominul Haque 69 Nasir Hossain 34 Rubel Hossain 1 Sabbir Rahman 63 Shamsur Rahman 75 Shakib Al Hasan 42 Sohag Gazi 29 Tamim Iqbal 3 Taskin Ahmed 16 Ziaur Rahman Coach: Jurgensen Ziaur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed were not initial members of the squad. They replaced Rubel Hossain and Mashrafe Mortaza who were injured during the tournament.

Bangladesh squad – 2015 Cricket World Cup 1 Sabbir Rahman 2 Mashrafe Mortaza (c) 3 Taskin Ahmed 4 Al-Amin Hossain 6 Arafat Sunny 11 Soumya Sarkar 12 Taijul Islam 13 Shafiul Islam 15 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) 28 Tamim Iqbal 30 Mahmudullah 34 Rubel Hossain 62 Imrul Kayes 66 Anamul Haque (wk) 68 Mominul Haque 69 Nasir Hossain 75 Shakib Al Hasan (vc) Coach: Hathurusingha