Mahmudullah

Bangladesh|Allrounder
Mahmudullah
INTL CAREER: 2007 - 2024
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Full Name

Mohammad Mahmudullah

Born

February 04, 1986, Mymensingh

Age

39y 12d

Also Known As

Riyad

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Allrounder

RELATIONS

(brother-in-law)

Mahmudullah grew into one of the five pillars of Bangladesh cricket in the post-2010 period of growth and relative success. A middle-order batter who bowls useful offspin, he is also one of Bangladesh's best fielders of all time. Mahmudullah's numbers put him in the modern group of allrounders who have aggregated 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in international cricket across formats.

He showed ability in different batting positions and, combined with his handiness with the ball, that made him invaluable to Bangladesh in the 2010s. He finished as Bangladesh's sixth-highest run-scorer in Tests when he abruptly retired from the format in 2021. Mahmudullah also captained Bangladesh, in T20Is predominantly. Whether captain or not, team-mates over the years lauded Mahmudullah for being a natural leader and a shrewd thinker about the game.

Born in Mymensingh, a district located 115km to the north of Dhaka, Mahmudullah learned his game in his hometown before coming to the capital to take part in the ACC U-15 tournament in 2000. That tournament, in Malaysia, also featured the likes of Irfan Pathan and Farveez Maharoof. Mahmudullah also spent time playing for the MCC Young Cricketers in 2005 before he took domestic one-day cricket in Dhaka by storm.

An international senior debut looked imminent and Mahmudullah duly slotted into Bangladesh's white-ball side in 2007. A Test debut came in 2009, when he took 12 wickets in four innings against West Indies, still one of Bangladesh's best overseas bowling performances. His first big batting show came in Hamilton, a Test century against New Zealand in 2010. The legendary Bangladeshi journalist Utpal Shuvro remarked after that innings that some of Mahmudullah's strokes had shades of VVS Laxman.

Hamilton would become one of his favourite grounds, with two more centuries coming there - first in the 2015 World Cup, and then in a Test match in 2019. The 2015 World Cup will have happy memories for him in general: he struck back-to-back centuries in the World Cup, the first coming in Bangladesh's iconic win against England in Adelaide.

Like most of Bangladesh's top cricketers, ODIs, or white-ball cricket, has been Mahmudullah's strong suit. He evolved from a lower-order batter to a middle-order mainstay, sometimes even batting in the top three to give the team immense flexibility.

Even more impressive was the way Mahmudullah transformed himself into a T20 finisher for five years from 2016 to 2021. He mastered the aerial flick over fine leg, a shot that he used to win a tight and controversial game against Sri Lanka in 2018.

International cricket has given Mahmudullah some lows too. He lost the T20I captaincy after a dismal T20 World Cup in 2021, and then lost his place in the ODI side in 2023. But Bangladesh's batting regressed so much in the months that followed that the selectors were forced to bring him back, and he went on to have another solid World Cup showing, in India in 2023.

For the trivia fans out there, Mahmudullah has been a victim in six international hat-tricks. He is known for his dry sense of humour, and has been one of the most popular cricketers in Bangladesh.
Mohammad Isam

Mahmudullah Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests509472914150*33.49545653.4051633824381
ODIs238208535685128*36.67731377.73432425107820
T20Is14113026244464*23.502082117.380818477510
FC11420420655715235.63--1432--981
List A36532967983113037.52--861--1360
T20s3463116462307325.225174120.400254722141420

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests506634231958435/518/11045.533.4379.6010
ODIs23815343803809823/43/446.455.2153.4000
T20Is141809501135413/103/1027.687.1623.1000
FC114-911150261437/94-35.143.3063.7431
List A365-824367761775/665/6638.284.9346.5110
T20s346210289734141353/63/625.287.0721.4000

Mahmudullah T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
BPL6 teams1331192027267327.532196124.13014211106630
CPL2 teams131039828*14.0084116.66005530
PSLQG9527129*23.6659120.33006220

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
BPL6 teams133751045124547 3/6 3/626.487.1422.2000
CPL2 teams1381561887 3/25 3/2526.857.2322.2000
PSLQG971041378 3/21 3/2117.127.9013.0000
Mohammad Mahmudullah

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Recent Matches of Mahmudullah

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Barishal vs Chittagong7--07-Feb-2025MirpurT20
Barishal vs Chittagong--0/1003-Feb-2025MirpurT20
Barishal vs Chittagong41*--01-Feb-2025MirpurT20
Barishal vs Dhaka----29-Jan-2025MirpurT20
Barishal vs Khulna24--27-Jan-2025MirpurT20

Photos of Mahmudullah

Mahmudullah is all smiles at a training session
Mahmudullah brings up his fifty
Mahmudullah goes big
Mahmudullah brought all his experience into the finisher's role
Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Mahmudullah put on a huge stand to lift Bangladesh
Mahmudullah steadied Bangladesh with his fifty