Najmul Hossain Shanto | Bangladesh | nan | Left hand Bat | Right arm Offbreak | Top order Batter | Nazmul Hossain Shanto emerged from an unusual source in Bangladesh cricket - the schools. A double-century in a school one-day match in Rajshahi grabbed the attention of age-group scouts, who quickly drafted the left-hander into Bangladesh's Under-17s. Soon, he graduated to the Under-19s in 2013, an… |
Soumya Sarkar | Bangladesh | nan | Left hand Bat | Right arm Medium fast | Middle order Batter | A rarity among Bangladesh allrounders, top-order batter Soumya Sarkar bowls medium pace rather than spin, and occasionally even takes the new ball. |
Litton Das | Bangladesh | nan | Right hand Bat | nan | Wicketkeeper Batter | Liton Das is the first wicketkeeper-batsman in Bangladesh considered good enough to be a long-term successor to Mushfiqur Rahim. His domestic exploits for Abahani in the Dhaka Premier League and Rangpur Division in the National Cricket League in the 2014-15 season earned him recognition and later a … |
Shakib Al Hasan(c) | Bangladesh | nan | Left hand Bat | Slow Left arm Orthodox | Allrounder | When the annals of Bangladesh cricket are sifted by future generations, Shakib Al Hasan will emerge and re-emerge as the greatest cricketer of its first two decades. As a bowler, Shakib is accurate, consistent and canny; aggression and a wide range of strokes are the keys to his batting. Even more i… |
Afif Hossain | Bangladesh | nan | Left hand Bat | Right arm Offbreak | Allrounder | Bangladesh left-hander Afif Hossain made his T20I debut in 2017 and impressed right away in his second game with a 26-ball 52 at No. 8 in a narrow win over Zimbabwe. He took a while to get going after that, although his T20I captain Mahmudullah praised his maturity during a tricky innings on a turni… |
Mosaddek Hossain | Bangladesh | nan | Right hand Bat | Right arm Offbreak | Middle order Batter | Mosaddek Hossain, who comes from a family of cricketers, snuck up on Bangladesh cricket's consciousness during the 2013 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, helping Abahani Limited stay afloat in a disastrous campaign. He struck a century and three fifties, before having to head to the Bangladesh … |
Nurul Hasan | Bangladesh | nan | Right hand Bat | nan | Wicketkeeper Batter | Nurul Hasan, who made his first-class debut in 2011, is one of a whole host of talented Bangladesh wicketkeepers who had to wait his turn to play international cricket. It wasn't entirely his fault though. For 30 years, the position behind the stumps was the domain of Khaled Mashud or Mushfiqur Rahi… |
Craig Ervine(c) | Zimbabwe | nan | Left hand Bat | Right arm Offbreak | Middle order Batter | Few people in Zimbabwe cricket circles were surprised when Craig Ervine found his way into Zimbabwe colours. A stylish left-handed middle-order batsman, Ervine hails from a family with a strong cricketing tradition - his father and uncle both played first-class cricket, albeit briefly, in the late 1… |