Mahmudullah

Mohammad Mahmudullah (মোহাম্মদ মাহমুদউল্লাহ; born 4 February 1986), also known Silent Killer and Riyad, is a Bangladeshi cricketer and former T20I captain.

He has played First-class and List A cricket for Dhaka Division and has represented Bangladesh in all forms of the game.

An all-rounder, he is a lower or middle-order batsman as well as an off spin bowler.

He has almost 10,000 runs and 150+ wickets.

He is prominent for his ability to finish a close limited over game.

He is the first Bangladeshi to score a World Cup hundred (4 hundreds in ICC events including back to back hundreds against England and New Zealand).

Mahmudullah started his career as a bowler and then converted into a batsman who could bowl off-breaks.

Mahmudullah was called up for Bangladesh's ODI squad for the three-match series against Sri Lanka in Bangladesh's tour of the country in July 2007.

He made his debut on the tour, in the third ODI, where he was Bangladesh's second highest scorer (with 36) and also took 2 wickets, in a match Sri Lanka won by 39 runs.

He went on to be picked for Bangladesh's squads for a Quadrangular Series in Kenya in 2007 and the 2007 Twenty20 World Championship.

In the 2008-2009 Bangladeshi domestic season Mahmudullah finished as the second-highest run-scorer in the competition with 710 runs at an average of 54.61 and was subsequently recalled to the ODI squad to face Zimbabwe in three ODIs and a tri-series with Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Mahmudullah made his Test debut on 9 July 2009 against the West Indies.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year.

An auction was held for teams to buy players, and Mahmadullah was bought by the Chittagong Kings for $110,000.

He scored 180 runs in 10 innings with 1 fifty, and took 4 wickets.

In the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League, he scored 233 runs in 12 innings, and took 6 wickets with a best figure of 2/6.

In the 2015 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah top-scored for his team Barisal Bulls scoring 279 runs in 12 innings with 2 fifties.

He also took 5 wickets with the ball.

Playing for his new team Khulna Titans in the 2016 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah top-scored for his team again scoring 396 runs in 14 innings with 2 fifties.

With the ball, he took 10 wickets with the best figure being 3/6.

In the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah scored 312 runs in 12 innings with 2 half-centuries, and was yet again the top-scorer of his team.

Besides, he took 6 wickets with the ball.

For the 2017 Pakistan Super League, Mahmudullah was contracted by Quetta Gladiators.

He scored 37 runs in 3 innings.

With the ball, he took 7 wickets with his best figure of 3/21.

In 2017-18 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, Mahmudullah was the first pick in the player by choice draft for the Dhaka Premier League acquired by Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club and becoming the highest-paid cricketer.

In the 2018 Pakistan Super League, Mahmudullah scored 34 runs in 2 innings.

He also took 1 wicket.

In April 2021, he was signed by Multan Sultans to play in the rescheduled matches in the 2021 Pakistan Super League.

However he did not feature in any of the matches.

In the 2019 Bangladesh Premier League, he scored 219 runs in 12 innings with 1 fifty.

He also took 9 wickets.

In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Chattogram Challengers in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League.

Mahmudullah scored 201 runs in 7 innings with 1 fifty.

With the ball in hand, he took 3 wickets.

In the 2021-22 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah scored 255 runs in 8 innings with 1 half-century playing for the Minister Group Dhaka.

He also took 3 wickets with his best being 1/5.

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) season of 2024 Mahmudullah plays for Fortune Barishal.

He played for Gemcon Khulna in 2020-21 Bangabandhu T20 Cup.

Mahmudullah as the captain of Gemcon Khulna had won the first edition of Bangabandhu T20 Cup.