Published : Tuesday, 11 December, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan
Bangladeshi cricket captain Mashrafe Biin Mortaza celebrates after the dismissal of West Indies cricketer Darren Bravo during the first One Day International (ODI) between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Sunday. photo: AFP
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is going to be the leading Tigers captain to guide Bangladesh in the ODIs through today's encounter between Bangladesh and Windies and joined with Habibul Bashar. Ongoing match is the 69th ODI appearance of Mash as skipper, who came out victorious in 39 times from previous 68 matches and till date is the most successful captain of red and green side with above 57% success rate.
Former captain of Bangladesh and present team selector Habibul Bashar also led Bangladesh in 69 ODIs with 42% winning rate. Test and T20i skipper Shakib Al Hasan following Mash and Basher captaining Tigers in 50 ODIs, who has 23 wins. Mashrafe, 35, became the first cricketer of the country to play 200th ODI on Sunday and puffed up the day with the match winning bowling spell of three wickets for 30 runs delivering all 10 overs quota.
The Narail Express went under blade for seven times but still he is the sharpest weapon in the Tigers pace battery and the leading Bangladesh wicket taker of his format with 255 hunts. Besides topmost ODI leadership, Mash led Bangladesh in solitary Test against the Windies in 2009 bearing cent percent success. He captained Bangladesh in 28 T20i matches as well and brought 10 victories. Bangladesh reached the quarter final of the World Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand and played the semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 under his leadership.