Gazi Saghir Hossain (born 19 August 1986) is a Bangladeshi wicket-keeper batsman, who made his
first-class debut in 2005 in the East Zone v Bangladesh Cricket Board XI game. He is a
right-handed batsman.
Career
He represented
Khulna Division and
Dhaka Division in
National Cricket League, and
Dhaka Metropolis
The Dhaka Metropolis cricket team is a Bangladeshi first-class cricket team based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The team competes in the National Cricket League.
Dhaka Metropolis played in the 2000-01 season, playing most of its home games at the Dhanmo ...
in
domestic T20 cricket Prior to that, he was also a part of the
Bangladesh Under-19 squad.
In February 2005, he made his
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
debut for
Khulna Division. In June 2008, he made
T20 debut for
Bangladesh A
The Bangladesh A cricket team, also known as Bangladesh Emerging cricket team, is a cricket team representing Bangladesh, and is the second tier of international Bangladeshi cricket below the full Bangladesh national cricket team. The team played ...
.
Hossain has over 3500 first-class runs to his name. He has also played for the
Bangladesh A team and got his first breakthrough in 2009 for the tour against
West Indies. He has been drafted into the side several times as a reserve wicketkeeper, a back-up for
Mushfiqur Rahim but has not played an international game so far.
References
External links
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1986 births
Living people
Bangladeshi cricketers
Cricket in Bangladesh
Khulna Division cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
Cricketers from Khulna
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