Imrul Kayes

Imrul Kayes (Bengali: ইমরুল কায়েস) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer who played for Khulna Division as a left-hand batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. He is currently the captain of Comilla Victorians .

Imrul Kayes
Personal information
Full nameImrul Kayes
Born (1987-02-02) 2 February 1987
Meherpur, Khulna, Bangladesh
NicknameSagar
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
RoleOpening Batsman, occasional Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 53)19 November 2008 v South Africa
Last Test22 November 2019 v India
ODI debut (cap 92)14 October 2008 v New Zealand
Last ODI11 December 2018 v West Indies
T20I debut1 May 2010 v Pakistan
Last T20I29 October 2017 v South Africa
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006–presentKhulna Division
2012Sylhet Royals
2013Rangpur Riders
2015–2019Comilla Victorians
2019–presentChattogram Challengers
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 39 78 112 176
Runs scored 1,797 2,434 6,718 6,737
Batting average 24.28 32.02 34.45 33.94
100s/50s 3/4 4/16 18/22 10/35
Top score 150 144 204 144
Balls bowled 24 – 303 36
Wickets 0 – 3 2
Bowling average – – 101.00 19.00
5 wickets in innings – – 0 0
10 wickets in match – – 0 0
Best bowling – – 1/6 1/18
Catches/stumpings 35/0 21/0 102/0 59/2
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 22 November 2019

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[3] at an average of 32.11. He scored his maiden ODI century[4] 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.[5]

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.

On October 21, 2018, Kayes scored a career best 144(140) against Zimbabwe in the first ODI, tying it with second most by a Bangladeshi batsman in an ODI along with Mushfiqur Rahim. After the concluding third ODI, Kayes had scored 349 runs in the series with scores of 144, 90, and 115, respectively, which would help Bangladesh whitewash Zimbabwe in the series. He accomplished the feat of making the second most runs in a bilateral three match ODI series, just 11 runs shy from current record holder Babar Azam.

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.[6] 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.[7]

Domestic career

The BCB founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year.[8] An auction was held for teams to buy players,[9] and Kayes was bought by the Sylhet Royals for $50,000.[10] He scored 102 runs from 7 innings in the competition.[11] In April the BCB upgraded Kayes' central contract from grade B to grade A.[12]

In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Comilla Victorians team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.[13] In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Chattogram Challengers in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League.[14]

Notes
  1. Bangladesh v New Zealand in 2008/9 Archived 17 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Cricket World, 14 October 2008
  2. "Cricinfo – South Africa must show aggressive intent". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  3. 5th highest runs scorer of the year in ODIs
  4. maiden ODI century
  5. Ashraful handed top-level central contract, ESPNcricinfo, 1 November 2010, retrieved 1 April 2012
  6. "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 / Records / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  7. Monga, Sidharth (14 March 2011). "Shakib hails Shafiul as key". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  8. Engineer, Tariq (28 December 2011), Bangladesh Premier League to begin on February 9, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  9. Isam, Mohammad (19 January 2012), Afridi and Gayle fetch highest BPL prices, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  10. Bangladesh Premier League: players standing after auction (PDF), ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 20 January 2012
  11. Bangladesh Premier League, 2011/12 / Records / Most runs, ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 21 March 2012
  12. Ashraful chopped from central contracts list, ESPNcricinfo, 1 April 2012, retrieved 2 April 2012
  13. "Full players list of the teams following Players Draft of BPL T20 2018-19". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  14. "BPL draft: Tamim Iqbal to team up with coach Mohammad Salahuddin for Dhaka". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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