AKRAM KHAN

Full name: Mohammad Akram Hussain Khan
Born: November 1, 1968 in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Test Debut: Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, Nov 10-13, 2000
Last Test: Bangladesh v South Africa at Dhaka, May 1-4, 2003
ODI Debut : Bangladesh v Pakistan at Chittagong, Oct 29, 1988
Last ODI: Bangladesh v South Africa at Dhaka, April 17, 2003

Batting and fielding averages:

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	8	16	0	259	44	16.18	686	37.75	0	0	29	3	3	0
ODIs	44	44	2	976	65	23.23	1721	56.71	0	5			8	0
First-class	43	77	4	2117	129*	29			2	10			24	0
List A	94	88	9	2192	82	27.74			0	12			18	0

Bowling Averages:

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
ODIs	44	6	117	138	0	–	–	–	7.07	–	0	0	0
First-class	43		51	23	1	7-Jan		23	2.7	51		0	0
List A	94		202	228	0	–	–	–	6.77	–	0	0	0

Profile:
Akram Khan is the first real hero of Bangladesh Cricket. A right handed batsman, the favorite son of Chittagong was one of the mainstays of the Bangladesh team during the 1990s, a period of transition from Associate to Full member nation. He hails from a family where sport was given preference, despite the times. He began his career for Bangladesh Railways, a Chittagong based club that played in the Dhaka leagues. Quickly, he moved along the ranks and joined Abahani, one of two sporting giants in the country. By 1988, Akram was playing for Bangladesh made one bid after another to make it through to the world Cup, he kept plugging away for different representative teams from Bangladesh.
Akram was put in charge in 1997 for that year’s ICC Trophy. This was his finest hour; against the Netherlands in a do-or-die game, he slammed a back-to-the-wall 68 not out that put his team in the semifinal where they beat Scotland to get their dream ticket –the 1999 World Cup. He played the country’s inaugural Test and prolonged a waning career for four more years before the South African peace battery proved too much for a prod man. He retired soon after and in 2007, was appointed a national selector. He was made the chief selector in 2011 before resigning, and then back his resignation, in March 2012.