Imrul Kayes

Imrul Kayes
Personal information
Full name Imrul Kayes
Born (1987-02-02) 2 February 1987
Meherpur, Bangladesh
Nickname Sagar
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting Left handed
Role Opening Batsman, occasional Wicket-keeper, Top-order Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 53) 19 November 2008 v South Africa
Last Test 31 January 2018 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 92) 14 October 2008 v New Zealand
Last ODI 28 September 2018 v India
ODI shirt no. 45
T20I debut 1 May 2010 v Pakistan
Last T20I 29 October 2017 v South Africa
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006–present Khulna Division
2012 Sylhet Royals
2013 Rangpur Riders
2015–present Comilla Victorians
2017 Boost Defenders
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 28 65 12 90
Runs scored 1,466 1,873 103 5,611
Batting average 28.19 29.26 9.36 35.73
100s/50s 3/4 2/13 0/0 15/20
Top score 150 112 36 204
Balls bowled 24 – – 285
Wickets 0 – – 2
Bowling average – – – 102.00
5 wickets in innings 0 – – 0
10 wickets in match 0 – – 0
Best bowling – – -/- 1/7
Catches/stumpings 27/0 20/0 2/– 91/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 28 September 2018

Imrul Kayes (Bengali: ইমরুল কায়েস) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer who plays for Khulna Division as a left-hand batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.

International career

He made his first-class debut in 2006, playing 15 first-class matches and 16 One Day matches before being called up for the third One Day International between Bangladesh and New Zealand in Chittagong. Batting at number three, he made just 12 runs as Bangladesh lost by 79 runs.[1]

He made his Test debut in November 2008, playing the first match of a series in South Africa.[2] He opened the batting on his debut, but made just 10 and 4 in his two innings, being dismissed twice on the second afternoon of the match.

He later found form in 2010 scoring 867 runs, becoming the 5th highest runs scorer of the year in ODIs at an average of 32.11. He scored his maiden ODI century against New Zealand. When the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced its list of central contracts in November 2010, Kayes has given a grade B contract.[3]

In 2017, in the second test against New Zealand after Mushfiqur Rahim got head injury in the first test, Kayes served as a substitute wicketkeeper and he had 5 dismissals in an innings,which is also the most for any substitute wicketkeeper in an innings of a test and was also the first substitute wicketkeeper to take 5 test catches.

2011 World Cup

Bangladesh failed to progress beyond the group stage of the 2011 World Cup; Kayes was Bangladesh's leading run-scorer in the tournament with 188 runs at an average of 37.60.[4] During the tournament, he produced two Man-of-the-Match performances, striking fifties against England and the Netherlands to help Bangladesh to victory on each occasion, though he felt bowler Shafiul Islam deserved the first award instead. With Manjural Islam Rana he became just the second Bangladesh player to win consecutive Man-of-the-Match awards in ODIs.[5]

Domestic career

The BCB founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year.[6] An auction was held for teams to buy players,[7] and Kayes was bought by the Sylhet Royals for $50,000.[8] He scored 102 runs from 7 innings in the competition.[9] In April the BCB upgraded Kayes' central contract from grade B to grade A.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Bangladesh v New Zealand in 2008/9, Cricket World, 14 October 2008
  2. ↑ "Cricinfo – South Africa must show aggressive intent". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  3. ↑ Ashraful handed top-level central contract, ESPNcricinfo, 1 November 2010, retrieved 1 April 2012
  4. ↑ "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 / Records / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Monga, Sidharth (14 March 2011). "Shakib hails Shafiul as key". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  6. ↑ Engineer, Tariq (28 December 2011), Bangladesh Premier League to begin on February 9, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  7. ↑ Isam, Mohammad (19 January 2012), Afridi and Gayle fetch highest BPL prices, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  8. ↑ Bangladesh Premier League: players standing after auction (PDF), ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  9. ↑ Bangladesh Premier League, 2011/12 / Records / Most runs, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 21 March 2012
  10. ↑ Ashraful chopped from central contracts list, ESPNcricinfo, 1 April 2012, retrieved 2 April 2012
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