5. Full name Taijul Islam
Born February 7, 1992,
Natore
Current age 23 years 10 days
Major
teams Bangladesh, Bangla
desh Under-
19s,Bangladesh Under-
23s, Duronto
Rajshahi,Prime Doleshwar
Sporting Club, Rajshahi
Division
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm
orthodox
8. Taijul, who hails from
Natore, a northwestern
district in Bangladesh , has
played at domestic level
for Rajshahi
Division and North Zone, in
the Bangladesh Premier
League(BPL) for Duronto
Rajshahi, and in the Dhaka
Premier Division for Prime
Doleshwar SC
9. Taijul initially played in his
hometown, Natore, before
moving up to the Rajshahi
Division league system. He
toured Sri Lanka with
the Bangladesh national
under-19s during the 2009
season, and played three
under-19 One Day
Internationals and one
under-19 Test.
10. Taijul made his first-
class debut for Rajshahi
Division in April 2011, during
the 2010–11 season of
theNational Cricket League
(Bangladesh).He played
three matches late in the
season, taking 14 wickets
(including three four-wicket
hauls). This
impressed Khaled Mashud, a
former captain of
Bangladesh and leading
figure in the Rajshahi team,
and reputedly guaranteed
his place in the squad for
several seasons
11. For the 2011–12 season, Taijul secured a
place with Prime Doleshwar Sporting
Club in the Dhaka Premier Division,
which, although it did not yet have list-
A status, was one of the strongest one-
day leagues in the country. He was also
signed toDuronto Rajshahi for
the inaugural season of
the Bangladesh Premier League,
playing three matches, including the
team's semi-final loss to the Barisal
Burners.Taijul gained more game time
during the following season, taking
nine wickets from nine matches
12. In August 2013 he represented the
Bangladesh under-23 side at
the ACC Emerging Teams Cup
in Singapore, which constituted his
first matches at list-A level.The
Dhaka Premier Division gained
list-A status for its 2013 season,
running from September to
November, and Taijul was one of
the competition's leading wicket-
takers, finishing with 22 wickets
from 15 matches (behind
only Farhad Reza for Prime
Doleshwar). This including figures
of 6/19 against Sheikh Jamal
Dhanmondi Club (led
by Mushfiqur Rahim), a personal
best.
13. Taijul represented another
side sponsored by Prime
Bank Limite in a
brief Victory Day Cup series
at the end of December 2013.
He played seven games in
that competition, which was
his
second Twenty20 tourname
nt of the year – he had also
represented Rajshahi
Division at the Bangladesh
Games in April.
14. The 2013–14 season was Taijul's
breakout season at first-class
level. In the four-
zone Bangladesh Cricket
League, he took 37 wickets in
four matches for North Zone,
an amalgam of the Rajshahi
and Rangpur Division teams.
This included match figures of
12/122 (7/71 and 5/51)
against East Zone, the first ten-
wicket haul of his career.
15. Against Central
Zone, Taijul took
match figures of
11/177 (5/88 and
6/89), while in the
tournament's
final,
against South
Zone, he took
10/242, which
included first-
innings figures of
8/86.
17. His NCL season for
Rajshahi Division was less
successful, with 18 wickets
from seven
matches,though this
including a ten-wicket haul
against Sylhet Division, for
which he was named man
of the match.
18. After Taijul's
performances during
the 2013–14 domestic
season, he was
named
in Bangladesh A's 15-
man squad for its
tour of the West
Indies in May 2014.
19. Bangladesh's senior
team also
toured later in the
year, in August and
September. Taijul
was a late addition to
Bangladesh's squad
for the two-Test
series, replacing
another left-arm
spinner, Abdur
Razzak.
20. On debut
at Kingstown's Arnos Vale
Ground (on Saint Vincent), he
took 5/135 in the West Indies'
first innings of 484/7 declared,
bowling the majority of overs
in tandem with Shuvagata
Hom, an off-spinner also
making his Test debut. Taijul
thus became the sixth
Bangladeshi bowler to take a
five-wicket haul on his Test
debut.
21. Taijul was
subsequently selected
for Bangladesh's home
series against
Zimbabwe, in October
and November 2014. In
the first Test of the
three-Test series, he
took 8/39 from 16.5
overs in Zimbabwe's
second innings,
helping to bowl the
side out for 114 runs
22. Taijul became the
first Bangladeshi
to take eight
wickets in a Test
innings,
breaking Shakib
Al Hasan's
previous record
(7/36 against New
Zealand in 2008)
23. Later in the
match, Taijul
featured in an
unbroken 19-run
partnership for
the eighth
wicket, hitting
the winning runs
as Bangladesh
won by three
wickets. He was
subsequently
named man of
the match.
24. He made his One
Day
International deb
ut for
Bangladesh again
st Zimbabwe on 1
December
2014. He finished
with figures of 4/11
from seven overs,
including a hat-
trick.