Full name Mohammad Nafees Iqbal Khan
Born October 31, 1985, Chittagong
Current age 22 years 268 days
Major teams Bangladesh,Bangladesh Under-19s,Chittagong Division
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Relations Uncle - Akram Khan,Brother - Tamim Iqbal
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
11
22
0
518
121
23.54
1332
38.88
1
2
72
1
2
0
ODIs
16
16
0
309
58
19.31
568
54.40
0
2
32
2
2
0
First-class
61
112
6
3290
153
31.03
6
15
13
0
List A
54
54
2
1114
87
21.42
0
11
9
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
11
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
61
61
33
0
-
-
-
3.24
-
0
0
0
List A
54
2
2
0
-
-
-
6.00
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Bangladesh v New Zealand at Dhaka, Oct 19-22, 2004 scorecard
Last Test
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Bogra, Mar 8-11, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Bangladesh v England at Chittagong (MAA), Nov 7, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Bangladesh at Cardiff, Jun 18, 2005 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
2000/01
Last First-class
Chittagong Division v Khulna Division at Chittagong (CDS), Dec 5-8, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Chittagong Division v Khulna Division at Chittagong (CDS), Dec 9, 2007 scorecard
Profile
A young, crowd-pleasing opener, Nafees Iqbal is not one of nature's shrinking violets. A nephew of Bangladesh's larger-than-life former captain Akram Khan, Nafees shot to prominence in the second warm-up match of England's inaugural tour in 2003-04. After slapping a giddy century for Bangladesh A in Dhaka, he dismissed England's spinners as "ordinary", an assessment that attracted more column inches than the innings itself. Had he not been about to lead Bangladesh's Under-19 team in Pakistan, he might have had the opportunity to expand on that statement in the subsequent Test series. Instead, he waited for a late summons to the one-day squad, and made his debut in front of his home fans at Chittagong. His Test debut followed the following year, and in January 2005 he produced his maiden hundred, an invaluable match-saving 121 against Zimbabwe at Dhaka, which secured Bangladesh their maiden series victory, after making 56 in the historic win at Chittagong. Indifferent form after that cost Nafees his place, and he did not feature in the Tests against Australia in April 2006: he had lost his one-day place nearly a year before, after a poor start to the NatWest Series in England. Andrew Miller June 2006
