Shamsur Rahman

Shamsur Rahman is an explosive opening batsman, who is also referred by another name Shuvo. He made his first class debut in 2005/06 for Khulna division and later moved to Dhaka Division in 2006/07. He also played for Bangladesh Board President's XI in 2004/05 and Bangladesh A in the same season. Later on he represented Bangladesh in various age groups, including Under-19 Tests and ODIs.

In 2009, he was included in the Bangladesh squad for the World Twenty20, but he didn't play any game in that tournament. In the same season, he was the leading run scorer in the domestic One-day competition of the Dhaka Division. He had a good series against South Africa A and he was called up to the Test squad as well due to injury worries for key players.

He made his T20I debut for Bangladesh against Sri Lanka on March 2013 at Pallekelle, but had a disastrous match as he was out for a golden duck. He made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at home in February 2014 in the first Test and immediately notched up his ton in the second. He scored only a fifty in the ODI series. In the Asia Cup 2014, he struggled to score runs freely and had a very miserable tournament.

By Kiran Nataraj As of March 2014