Mustafizur Rahman biography

known as cutter Mustafiz is a Bangladesh National Cricket Team player. He is a left-arm medium-fast bowler, left-hand lower-order batsman. Mustafizur Rahman made an incredible start in his career. In just 9 months of an international career, he has cemented his place in the playing 11. He is regarded as Bangladesh's future leader of the pace bowling department.

Mustafizur Rahman was born on 6 September 1995, in Shathkhira. He had very few facilities of playing cricket there. Mustafizur used to play cricket with the taped tennis ball.

In 2012, Mustafizur came to Dhaka to attend a pace bowling camp. He caught the coach's attention on that camp. Then Mustafizur was admitted to the BCB's pace foundation. He was selected for the 2014 U-19 world cup squad.  Mustafizur Rahman took 8 wickets on that tournament.

After the world cup, in 2014, he made his debut in First-class cricket and List-A cricket. Mustafizur was a surprise choice when he was picked for Bangladesh A Squad, who toured West Indies.

The left-handed pacer, Mustafizur Rahman comes in the light of his first match taking 6 wickets with his extraordinary cuts with lots of variations. Bangladesh won three ODI series for most performances of Mustafiz, including Pakistan, India and South Africa. 

The career of Mustafizur Rahman

Mustafizur Rahman came in Dhaka in 2012 for a fast-bowling camp and impressed the selectors for the Under-17 team. He got admission to the pace bowling foundation of BCB. He was debuted in first-class cricket in 2013-2014 sessions in Under-19 world cup, which was held in UAE and finally he has started his “special cut” from Bangladesh-India home series.

 The great time of Mustafizur Rahman comes in the Bangladesh-India home series in 2015. He made the record in the cricket world of being the first player who took 11 wickets from his first 2 matches. From his first 3 matches, he picked up a total 13 wickets in the series. His brilliant cuts are made him famous and he has been sold by the highest amount among Bangladeshi players (more 10 million BDT) for the team of Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Bangladesh National Cricket Team selectors were quick to recognize Mustafizur Rahman's bowling talent and called him for only T20I against Pakistan, which was in 2014. He took 2 wickets in his very first T20I match. Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Hafeez was the victim.

In June 2014, Mustafizur Rahman made his ODI debut against India. He took five-wicket in his debut ODI, against strong Indian batting line-up. Bangladesh won the match, thanks to Mustafizur's outstanding bowling. That was the first time when the world came to know about his deadly cutters. He was only the 10th bowler to get five-wickets in his debut ODI match. In the second match, Mustafizur Rahman took another 6 wickets, which helped Bangladesh sealed the series. That was Bangladesh's first ODI series victory against India. Mustafizur took 13 wickets on that 3 match series, highest by any bowler on a 3 match ODI series.

Next month, He took 5 wickets in a 3 match ODI series against South Africa. Bangladesh won the series by 2-1, Mustafizur Rahman has a major role behind the success.

Mustafizur Rahman made his Test debut against South Africa, Which was followed by the ODI series. Mustafizur took 4 wickets on his Test debut.

Mustafizur Rahman is not express quick, but his cutters are lethal. Most of Mustafizur Rahman's wickets came from cutters. He is also Deadly Accurate.

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Mustafizur Rahman In BPL

Mustafizur Rahman featured in BPL(Bangladesh Premier League) for the first time in the 2015 season. Mustafizur took 14 wickets in 10 matches.

Mustafizur Rahman In IPL

Mustafizur Rahman caught the eyes of a number of IPL(Indian Premier League) teams with his performance. It is expected that he will get a contract from any of the teams in the next auction.

Mustafizur Rahman's Ranking

Batting

ODI- 278

TEST- 201

T20I- 398

Bowling

ODI- 45

TEST- 92

T20I- 37

All-Rounder

ODI- 136

TEST- 122

T20I- 189

Batting & fielding averages of Mustafizur Rahman

Mustafizur Rahman is basically a bowler. So, his batting figure is not so well. Here is his batting statistics below:

	Matches	Innings	NO	Runs	High Score
Tests-	2	1	0	3	3
ODIs-	9	5	3	15	9
T20Is-	10	3	1	2	1*
First-class-	15	16	10	26	14
List A-	14	6	3	16	9
Twenty20-	20	4	2	3	1*

Average	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
3.00	13	23.07	0	0	0	0	0	0
7.50	33	45.45	0	0	2	0	2	0
1.00	8	25.00	0	0	0	0	2	0
4.33	134	19.40	0	0	4	0	3	0
5.33	40	40.00	0	0	2	0	2	0
1.50	10	30.00	0	0	0	0	6	0

Bowling averages of Mustafizur Rahman

Mustafizur Rahman is a left-handed medium pacer with special cuts. The magic of his bowling made him world-famous. His name works as a brand and makes sweated the batsmen. Here is the bowling summary of Mustafizur which is made within a few months:

	Matches	Innings	Balls	Runs	Wickets
Tests-	2	2	136	58	4
ODIs-	9	9	452	321	26
T20Is-	10	10	236	221	13
First-class-	15	26	1962	809	44
List A-	14	14	697	462	38
Twenty20-	20	20	461	435	27

BBI	BBM	Average	Economy	S/R	4w	5w	10
4/37	4/58	14.50	2.55	34.0	1	0	0
6/43	6/43	12.34	4.26	17.3	0	3	0
2/13	2/13	17.00	5.61	18.1	0	0	0
5/28	6/33	18.38	2.47	44.5	6	1	0
6/43	6/43	12.15	3.97	18.3	0	4	0
3/14	3/14	16.11	5.66	17.0	0	0	0

So, we are much confident to say that Mustafizur Rahman is already a bowling sensation of Bangladesh cricket team and hopefully, he will continue his cricket journey of special cuts to enrich his bowling figure. He will make some more world records as a Bangladeshi cricketer, till then “Best of Luck, Mustafizur Rahman”.