Rumana Ahmed

Ahmed returns to vice-captaincy duties for the 2020 World T20, after having missed out on Bangladesh's most recent series and two months' cricket with a knee injury

Emily Marshall | 01/02/2020 at 08:54

Born: May 29, 1991

Role: Right-hand bat, legbreaks

This experienced allrounder is approaching 100 caps for her national side, having represented the Tigers on 99 occasions (as of February 1, 2020).

She returns to her vice-captaincy duties for the 2020 World T20, after having missed out on Bangladesh's most recent series and two months' cricket with a knee injury.

She currently holds the joint highest ODI score for Bangladesh Women of 75 alongside her captain, Salma Khatun. The innings was also on the same tour as Khatun’s, in India in 2013, and the pair know each other well, having grown up playing for their hometown Khulna’s cricket team since 2008.

Not only have they played their domestic cricket together, they also made their debut at the time, as Ahmed came into the international game in 2011 against Ireland.

A record-breaking batsman, she currently is the leading runscorer for Bangladesh Women in ODI’s with 827 across her nine years representing her country.

With ball in hand Ahmed is just as nifty. She sits joint top of the leading wicket-takers in ODI for Bangladesh's women, and against India in 2013 she picked up her best ODI bowling figures of 4-20.

In 2016, Ahmed became the first Bangladesh Women's player to take an international hat trick, against Ireland in Belfast, coming out the match with figures of 3-20.

She backed this up when she was the leading wicket-taker in the 2018 T20 World Cup Qualifiers, which followed her inclusion in the Bangladesh squad for their maiden Women’s Asia Cup triumph.

In 2019 Ahmed was selected to be part of the ICC’s Women’s Global Development squad that played six games against Women’s Big Bash sides.

She went on to join Hobart Hurricanes and rub shoulders with some of the best players in the world.

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