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Mohammad Aminul Islam Bulbul
(1968 - )
Mohammad
Aminul Islam Bulbul born on 02 February 1968, Dhaka.
A very experienced, (by Bangladesh standards) middle
order batsman who's talents were spotted early - he
was one of two Bangladesh players selected for the
ICC Associates XI in the 1988 World Youth Cup cricket
tournament. Gordon Greenidge has described him as
one of only three, top class batsmen in Bangladesh. |
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A
stylish, classical player, he hasn't always been comfortable
with the unorthodox requirements of one day cricket, as his
modest ODI average shows.
He does manage to pick up runs reasonably effectively behind
the wicket by opening the face of the bat but has a tendency
to get frustrated and to lose his wicket with reckless shots
after getting set. He went into his first Test match with
a reputation of playing with too much bottom hand, though
in the event he batted solidly, getting well forward to smother
the spin on a turning track. Tidy in the field, (he was the
fielder of the tournament in the 1997 ICC Trophy), he is also
an occasional off spinner.
He has been one of very few Bangladesh players to have played
club cricket abroad. Was in England for the 2000 season, playing
for USP, ('United Services of Portsmouth') and has also spent
a year playing cricket in Australia.
Habibul
Bashar
(1972
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Bashar is one of the team's older
heads and his experience will prove vital at the top
of the order. However,
despite making his debut in 1995, this will be the
30-year-old's first World Cup.
Over
the years he has been in and out of the squad but
most recently was one of the stars in Bangladesh's
tour of South Africa.
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He
is one of the most naturally-gifted batsmen in the Bangladesh
squad and will be a key wicket for any opponents.
Bashar
will most likely be employed at first or second wicket down
where he can maximise his ability against pace bowling.
On
the downside he is often troubled by spin and has a tendency
to lose concentration and throw his wicket away having played
himself in.
An
impish, impulsive character who holds many of Bangladesh's
domestic runscoring records, Bashar has the strokes and mien
of a genuine Test player. Most of his runs come from cultured
drives through midwicket, and most of his dismissals from
a Hilditch-style addiction to the hook shot. Before the inaugural
Test of October 2000, Bashar promised he would kick the habit,
but still went on to be caught hooking in both innings. Even
so, he was one of only two batsmen to notch up 100 runs in
the match. He has since carried Bangladesh's flimsy hopes
in the middle-order, and inherited the captaincy in January
2004, after the ousting of Khaled Mahmud. After a shaky start
in Zimbabwe, he came into his own with a century in St Lucia,
as Bangladesh took a first-innings lead in their first-ever
Test in the West Indies.
Khaled
Mahmud
(1971 - )
A relative veteran of the one-day game, pint-sized
Khaled Mahmud scored a composed 47 on his international
debut, against India at Dhaka in 1997-98, but he had
to wait another four years before earning his first
Test cap. Quick-scoring when the mood takes him (but
quick to fall when it doesn't), he doubles as a handy
medium-pacer and often opens the bowling. It was in
this secondary role that he enjoyed his - and Bangladesh's
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Making the most of England's earlyseason conditions during
the 1999 World Cup, he took three toporder wickets for 31
runs to send Pakistan to a 62-run defeat at Northampton. A
good communicator and team man, he succeeded Khaled Masud
as Bangladesh captain, following their humiliating 2003 World
Cup.
Mohammad Javed Omar Belim
(1976
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With Hannan Sarkar developing alongside him, Javed
Omar has the talent and technique to form a potent
opening partnership for Bangladesh, though a glut
of one-day internationals have not helped his development.
Complaints that he scores his runs too slowly, however,
were offset by an historic Test debut, when he carried
his bat for 85 not out, only the third player in history
to do so in his first match. |
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He underlined his limpet-like qualities with a painstaking
80, compiled in 100 overs, in his sixth match, against Zimbabwe
at Chittagong. His 71 against South Africa, also at Chittagong
in 2003, provided the first glimpse of a new steelier attitude
from Bangladesh.
Sultana Kamal Khuki
(1951 - 1975)
Wife
of Sheikh Kamal born in Dhaka, July 1951. Daughter
of Dabiruddin Ahmed, Executive Engineer of Dhaka University,
Khuki passed her matriculation examination from Muslim
Girls' School. She did her Bachelor of Arts and Masters
in Sociology from Dhaka University. Besides her studies,
she was a keen sportswoman and succeeded in establishing
a reputation for herself in the field. |
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She came second in the Pakistan Olympics long jump
in 1966 and in 1968 obtained a gold in the same sports meet.
In 1970, she achieved an all-Pakistan record. Her stream of
successes never seemed to end. She married Sheikh Kamal in
July 1975. A month later, she was killed with the other members
of the family.
Neaz Morshed
Neaz Morshed won the Grandmaster title quite suddenly. A prodigy
in his childhood, Neaz shook the chess world at the age of
only eight when he drew with the then Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly
Lutikov who played simultaneously with 30 players at the National
Press Club in Dhaka in January 1976. Neaz did not get enough
chance of playing chess in the international arena, especially
in Grandmaster tournament, before the 90s. In spite of that,
Neaz won the Grandmaster title in 1986. Till then, not to
speak of the sub-continent, none could win this coveted honour
from the World Chess Federation’s Number 10 zone stretching
from Mongolia to Turkey. After long 16 years, Ziaur Rahman
won the second Grandmaster title for the country three months
back. Bangladesh has also four international masters. They
are: Zillur Rahman Champak, Rifat Bin Sattar, Abdullah –Al
Rakib and Enamul Haq Rajib. The lone woman international master
is Rani Hamid.
Among
other proficient chess-players of the earlier period were
Professor Abdur Razzaque, Akmal Hossain, and Mian Abdus Salek.
National chess competition has been arranged yearly since
1974. Niaz Morshed became champion in four consecutive years
from 1979 to 1982. A national women's chess competition has
been arranged annually since 1979, in which the only woman
Master of Bangladesh, Rani Hamid, became champion 12 times.
In 1986, Niaz Morshed became champion in the Grand Masters'
Championship, in which 17 countries of the Asian Zone 3.1
participated. This made him the first Grand Master of Bangladesh.
Ziaur Rahman became the second Grand Master of the country
in 2001.
Atiqur
Rahman
The
success of Bangladesh in shooting also surprised all. At a
time when no one could think of winning even a medal in a
big shooting event, Atiqur Rahman and Abdus Sattar Nini won
the gold in pairs 10m air pistol demonstrating unmatched marksmanship
in the 14th Commonwealth Games shooting competition in Auckland
in 1990. Their shooting prowess also earned for them a bronze
in pairs 50m free pistol event in the meet. But when everybody
started expecting success in shooting, no big achievements
could be made in shooting any more. However, Bangladesh is
winning gold medals regularly in the SAF games.
Mohammad Shah Alam
Mohammad Shah Alam of Bangladesh Army won the rare feat of
becoming the fastest men of the sub-continent by winning gold
medals in the 100 metre sprint in 1985 and 1987.
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