Alauddin Babu (born 5 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer.
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Full name | Alauddin Babu |
Born | (1991-12-05) 5 December 1991 (age 30) Rangpur, Bangladesh |
Batting | Right-hand bat |
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast |
Role | All-rounder |
Source: Cricinfo, 16 May, 2016 |
He is a promising medium-pace bowler who was discovered at 17, Babu's most conspicuous cricketing act so far has been to concede the most expensive List-A over of all time when he gave away 39 in a Dhaka Premier League match.
He bowls right-arm fast bowler who can bat in middle-order was included in the Bangladesh squad for the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. He took a four-wicket haul in the first four-day match against England Under-19s in July 2009.
He first earned attention in 2008, when he took an eight-wicket haul in Dhaka's First Division League, which is the level just below the Premier League.[citation needed]
Earmarked as a future prospect, and consequently selected for the National Cricket Academy in 2010, he made his first-class debut for Rajshahi Division Cricket Team, and then moved to Rangpur Division when the region became a divisional cricket team the following year.[citation needed]
He played for Barisal Burners in the Bangladesh Premier League. He played important role in the getting Barisal Burners to get them into the finals.[citation needed]
In 2013, Elton Chigumbura hammered the 39 from the last over of the innings bowled Alauddin. He gave away five off the first ball which was a no-ball, and then bowled a wide. Off the next five balls, Elton Chigumbura alternated between sixes and fours before Alauddin bowled another wide and was finished off with a six. Alauddin ended up conceding a whopping 93 in his 10 overs.[1]
In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Rajshahi Kings team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.[2]
In May 2021, he was selected to play for the Brothers Union in the 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League.[3][4] In the 10th match of the tournament against the Legends of Rupganj, he picked up a hat-trick,[5] being the only fifth Bangladeshi bowler to do so in Twenty20 cricket.[6]
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