India Capitals Player Profile

Mashrafe

Mortaza

Bowler

Matches

54

Runs

377

Wickets

42

Born

October 5, 1983

T20I Debut

2006

Role

Bowler

Batting Style

Right Handed

Bowling Style

Right-arm fast medium

Nationality

Bangladesh

Biography

One of Bangladesh's most successful right arm seamers, Mashrafe Mortaza has been one of the reasons for his country's steady rise in international cricket. A bowler who can stir up quite a pace, Mortaza's success has been curbed on a few occasions due to his persistent injury woes.

The fast bowler's talent was recognized at a very early stage by Bangladesh's selectors and the man from Norail was handed his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 2001 without even playing a single first-class game. The year 2003 was a roller-coaster ride for the pace bowler as he registered impressive figures of 4-60 in a Test against England but fell prey to a knee injury that kept him away from the game for a year. He was re-called for a tour to England late in 2004 but soon suffered a back injury on the Sri Lankan tour in 2005 and failed to play out the entire series. He came back well in the year 2006 though, and put up some fine performances against sides like Australia and Kenya.

The speedster wasn't at his best in the Champions Trophy of 2009 but bounced back in ODIs against Zimbabwe and Scotland and proved his mettle. He has grown as a bowler ever since and was given the chance of leading Bangladesh on a tour to West Indies. That chance went a-begging as he got injured at the start of the tour and had to hand over the captaincy to Shakib Al Hasan.

Statistics

BATTING & FIELDING
MAT
NO
RUNS
HS
AVERAGE
S/R
100S
50S
4S
6S
DUCKS
CT
ST
2017
5
1
11
9* v SL
3.66
100.00
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
2016
16
2
67
22 v ZIM
8.37
134.00
0
0
5
5
3
4
0
2015
5
1
37
17 v SA
12.33
148.00
0
0
3
3
1
2
0
2014
7
2
59
19 v WI
29.50
155.26
0
0
11
1
0
0
0
2013
1
1
7
7* v NZ
-
100.00
0
0
1
0
0
-
-
2012
7
1
55
30 v IRE
18.33
189.65
0
0
1
6
0
2
0
2010
2
0
7
6 v AUS
3.50
87.50
0
0
1
0
0
-
-
2009
2
1
44
33* v IRE
44.00
183.33
0
0
1
3
0
-
-
2008
1
0
2
2 v PAK
2.00
50.00
0
0
0
0
0
-
-
2007
7
2
52
12 v SA
13.00
94.54
0
0
2
3
1
1
0
2006
1
0
36
36 v ZIM
36.00
138.46
0
0
2
2
0
-
-
Overall
54
11
377
36 v ZIM
13.46
136.10
0
0
28
23
6
10
0
BOWLING
INN
BALLS
RUNS
WKTS
BBI
AVE
ECON
S/R
3W
5W
2017
5
110
164
4
2/32 v SL
41.00
8.94
27.50
0
0
2016
15
294
370
10
2/12 v UAE
37.00
7.55
29.40
0
0
2015
5
108
121
2
2/20 v ZIM
60.50
6.72
54.00
0
0
2014
7
156
214
7
2/29 v SL
30.57
8.23
22.28
0
0
2013
1
24
46
0
0/46 v NZ
-
11.50
-
0
0
2012
7
150
177
9
4/19 v IRE
19.66
7.08
16.66
1
0
2010
2
48
67
2
2/28 v AUS
33.50
8.37
24.00
0
0
2009
2
48
59
2
2/30 v IRE
29.50
7.37
24.00
0
0
2008
1
23
38
1
1/38 v PAK
38.00
9.91
23.00
0
0
2007
7
154
242
4
2/29 v KEN
60.50
9.42
38.50
0
0
2006
1
24
29
1
1/29 v ZIM
29.00
7.25
24.00
0
0
Overall
53
1139
1527
42
4/19 v IRE
36.35
8.04
27.11
1
0