Taskin Ahmed

Taskin Ahmed
Taskin Ahmed after practise
Personal information
Full name Taskin Ahmed Tazim
Born (1995-04-03) 3 April 1995
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nickname Tazim
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Right Arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 83) 12 January 2017 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 112) 17 June 2014 v India
Last ODI 22 October 2017 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 3
T20I debut (cap 43) 1 April 2014 v Australia
Last T20I 10 March 2018 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no. 3
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2011–present Dhaka Metropolis
2011–2014 Chittagong Kings
2015–present Chittagong Vikings
2018–present Kandahar Knights
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 4 27 15 59
Runs scored 63 26 17 119
Batting average 7.87 2.88 17.00 17.00
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 33 14 15* 38*
Balls bowled 738 1179 269 2580
Wickets 7 41 10 90
Bowling average 80.71 27.09 30.80 40.67
5 wickets in innings 0 1 n/a 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a 0
Best bowling 3/170 5/28 2/32 5/28
Catches/stumpings 1/– 7/– 1/– 13/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 28 May 2017

Taskin Ahmed Tazim (born 3 April 1995) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is the son of businessman Abdur Rashid and Sabina Yasmin. He is a right-arm fast bowler and a left-handed batsman. He represents Dhaka Metropolis in first-class and List A cricket and the Chittagong Kings and Chittagong Vikings franchise in the Bangladesh Premier League.

Early career

He completed SSC from King Khaled Institute and HSC from Stamford College. Now he is a student of American International University Bangladesh (AIUB). Taskin started cricket in Abahani playground on 10 January 2007. After playing under-15 and under-17 level he got the chance to play for under-19 team. He made his first-class debut for Dhaka Metropolis in October 2011 against Barisal Division.[1]

In the under-19 World Cup of 2012, Taskin was the highest wicket-taker for Bangladesh, taking 11 wickets. In his second Twenty20 in BPL-2 for the Chittagong Kings he was named man of the match for his bowling figures of 4/31 against Duronto Rajshahi in the semi-final. He took 8 wickets in 4 matches which was the most important turning point of his career.[2]

In BPL-3 he played for Chittagong Vikings. He became the 4th most searched person of 2015 in google from Bangladesh.[3]

International career

After Rubel Hossain, Taskin Ahmed is the 2nd Fastest Bowler in the history of Bangladesh cricket. Taskin Ahmed has clocked 148 km/h against Pakistan in Asia cup 2016 where Rubel Hossain has an impressive 149.5 km/h in a warm up game in 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Taskin Ahmed can consistently bowl around 145K/h. The door of national team opened for him suddenly in case of Mashrafe's injury on the 1 April 2014 and took the wicket of Glenn Maxwell in T20I debut. On 17 June 2014, he took 5 wickets against India as the first Bangladeshi ODI debut bowler. This outstanding performance was nominated as one of the best performance of 2014 in Cricinfo award.

He is also selected to Bangladesh national cricket team in the 2015 Cricket World Cup squad for his outstanding performance in domestic cricket in 2014 season. In group stage of WC, he took one wicket against Afghanistan, three against Scotland and two against England, which had a very important role to qualify in the quarter-final. The next time Bangladesh faced India was in Melbourne, the World Cup quarter-final. It was a full-strength Indian team this time around. Taskin impressed again by taking three wickets. He was the highest wicket-taker from Bangladesh in WC-2015. The epic celebration between Taskin and Mashrafe after getting wicket called "Chest-bump" was nominated as one of the most memorable moments of WC-2015.

He also had an important role to "Banglawash" Pakistan in April 2015 and series winning against India in June 2015.

In 2016 he was selected in Bangladesh's squad for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. However, he was later suspended from bowling in international cricket due to an illegal action bowled during the tournament.[4]

He made his Test debut for Bangladesh against New Zealand on 12 January 2017 and his maiden test wicket was Kane Williamson.[5]

Personal life

In November 2017, Taskin Ahmed married his childhood friend Sayeda Rabeya Nayeem.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Barisal Division v Dhaka Metropolis, 30 October – 2 November 2011". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Isam, Mohammad (16 February 2013). "Taskin keeps Kings' final hopes alive". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Panwar, Daksh (17 June 2015). "Taskin Ahmed: A tall, fast and handful poster-boy". The Indian Express. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Taskin and Sunny suspended from bowling due to actions". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Bangladesh tour of New Zealand, 1st Test: New Zealand v Bangladesh at Wellington, Jan 12–16, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Taskin Ahmed Gets Married, Fans Troll Him And Wife".
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