Mushfiqur Rahim is a Bangladeshi cricketer and the former captain and vice-captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team.
65 Facts About Mushfiqur Rahim
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Mushfiqur Rahim is a right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper in the Bangladesh Cricket Team.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was made to play as a specialist batsman in the first Test match of his career.
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Mushfiqur Rahim thus became the youngest player to play at Lord's Cricket Stadium.
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Mushfiqur Rahim continued to make consistent contributions down the order with the bat and was more than competent as a keeper for Bangladesh's spin dominated attack.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is one of the best run scorers as a wicketkeeper who has 11,000 runs and 400+ dismissals.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is known as "Mr Dependable" to Bangladeshi fans.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is rated as one of the consistent performers and one of the few keepers to score 1000+ runs in every format.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is the first and only wicketkeeper-batsman in the history of Test cricket to score two double-hundreds.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is the first and only Bangladeshi batsman to score three double-hundreds in Tests.
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Mushfiqur Rahim is the only Bangladeshi player to win 150 international matches.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was born on 9 May 1987 in Bogra, Bangladesh.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was one of two players at the tournament with Test-match experience.
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Later that month Mushfiqur Rahim was recalled to the senior Test squad for the first time since the England tour in 2005.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was selected as a specialist batsmen, with Khaled Mashud chosen as the wicket-keeper for the series against Sri Lanka.
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In T20 cricket, all of Mushfiqur Rahim's runs came playing for Bangladesh, Bangladesh A, Duronto Rajshahi, Nagenahira Nagas, Sylhet Royals, Chittagong Vikings, Karachi Kings, Barishal Bulls, Rajshahi Kings, Nangharhar Leopards, Khulna Tigers and Beximco Dhaka.
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In December 2010, Mushfiqur Rahim recorded his best score in a one-day match.
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Under his leadership Duronto overcame a weak start to progress to the semi-finals where they lost to Barisal Burners; Mushfiqur Rahim contributed 234 runs from 11 matches.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was the leading run-scorer in that tournament, with 440 runs in 13 matches at an average of 40.40.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was one of the leading run scorers in that tournament, with 341 runs in 12 matches at an average of 37.88, which included two half-centuries.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was the leading run-scorer for the team in the tournament, with 426 runs in thirteen matches.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was the second highest run-scorer in that tournament, scoring 491 runs in 14 matches, at an average of 70.14 which included 4 half-centuries.
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Mushfiqur Rahim posted his career-best knock of unbeaten 98 runs against Cumilla Warriors during the 40th match of the tournament.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was selected for Bangladesh's tour of England in 2005.
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Mushfiqur Rahim adapted his batting style in the warm up matches, "consistently playing late and straight" according to Wisden, and managed to score 63 against Sussex and scored 115 not out against Northamptonshire in the warm up matches.
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The 17-year-old Mushfiqur Rahim scored 19 in the first innings and was one of just three batsman to reach double figures as Bangladesh were dismissed for 108.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was included in Bangladesh's squad to tour Zimbabwe for five ODIs in 2006.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was one of three uncapped ODI players included in the squad alongside all-rounders Farhad Reza and Shakib Al Hasan.
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Mushfiqur Rahim scored his maiden half-century at Harare against Zimbabwe.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was recalled for the second Test against Sri Lanka in July 2007, replacing Mashud.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was recalled to the squad for a tri-series with Pakistan and India and the 2008 Asia Cup.
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Star wicketkeeper-batter Mushfiqur Rahim announced his retirement from T20Is on September 4,2022.
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Mushfiqur Rahim took to his official Twitter account to make the announcement, insisting that he will now be focusing on ODIs and Tests.
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Mushfiqur Rahim's decision came just over a month before the scheduled start of the T20 World Cup in Australia.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was appointed vice-captain for Bangladesh's tour of Zimbabwe in August 2009.
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Mushfiqur Rahim retained the vice-captaincy for the home Test series against India in January and February 2010.
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Mushfiqur Rahim scored two half-centuries in the first Test, becoming the 6th Bangladesh batsman to perform the feat.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was included in Bangladesh's 15-man squad for the 2011 World Cup.
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Bangladesh were knocked out in the group stage and Mushfiqur Rahim had a poor tournament personally.
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On 20 September 2011, Mushfiqur Rahim was named Bangladesh captain, taking over from Shakib Al Hasan after a disappointing tour of Zimbabwe.
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Mushfiqur Rahim had already been captaining Bangladesh in the tournament on a temporary basis.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was Bangladeshi's leading run-scorer with 100, including a fifty.
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On 11 March 2013, during the first test of the tour of Sri Lanka in Galle, Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi to score a double hundred, beating the previous highest of 190 set by Mohammed Ashraful earlier in the day.
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Rahim announced his resignation as captain on 8 May 2013, but a few days later Mushfiqur announced he had made a "mistake", and on 3 July 2013 the BCB announced they would be retaining Mushfiqur as captain until the end of the year.
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Mushfiqur Rahim continued his captaincy in 2014 and lost to Sri Lanka in a home series.
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Mushfiqur Rahim missed out the T20 international matches against Sri Lanka in which Mashrafe Mortaza took the job of captaincy.
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Mushfiqur Rahim scored his second one-day international century against India at the beginning of the 2014 Asia Cup but struggled in that match with his injury.
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Mushfiqur Rahim's team lost the match against Pakistan in that same tournament even after scoring 326 which was their highest ODI score, courtesy of Shahid Afridi's knock.
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In September 2014, the BCB appointed Mortaza as the ODI captain, although Mushfiqur Rahim retained the Test captaincy.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was awarded the man of the series for the ODI matches.
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In that match Mahmudullah Riyad and Mushfiqur Rahim made the highest partnership for any wicket for Bangladesh in a World Cup match which was Bangladesh's highest ODI partnership against England.
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Mushfiqur Rahim attended to the post match presentation after receiving treatment.
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In March 2017, during the second Test against Sri Lanka, Mushfiqur Rahim took his 100th dismissal as a wicket-keeper.
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Mushfiqur Rahim became the first wicket-keeper for Bangladesh to reach this milestone.
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On 15 October 2017, during the first ODI against South Africa, Mushfiqur Rahim became the first batsman for Bangladesh to score an international century against South Africa in any format.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was selected as wicket keeper in the Test XI of the year 2017 by Cricinfo.
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In Bangladesh's next match of the tournament, against New Zealand, Mushfiqur Rahim played in his 350th international match for Bangladesh.
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Mushfiqur Rahim scored 102* in 97 balls and became third Bangladeshi batsman to score a century in world cup.
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In December 2020, Mushfiqur Rahim was named in Bangladesh's Test and ODI squad for their series against West Indies.
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On 25 May 2021, against Sri Lanka in the second ODI, Mushfiqur Rahim scored 125 and helped his side to win the second ODI and the series as well.
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In March 2023, in the second ODI against Ireland, Mushfiqur Rahim scored the fastest century by a Bangladeshi player, in terms of the number of balls faced in an ODI.
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Mushfiqur Rahim became the third cricketer from Bangladesh to score 7,000 runs in ODIs.
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Mushfiqur Rahim scored the first Test double century for Bangladesh, and has scored centuries on nine occasions in Test matches and nine occasions in ODIs.
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Mushfiqur Rahim was criticized for trying to hit his teammate, Nasum Ahmed, following an incident in the eliminator of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup where both of them were going for the same catch.
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Mushfiqur Rahim, who was captain of Beximco Dhaka, was visibly annoyed with his teammate and threatened to throw a punch at his teammate.