Alauddin Babu

Babu 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 of Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club hammered 39 from the last over of the innings bowled by Alauddin. He gave away five off the first ball which was a no-ball, and then bowled a wide. Off the next five balls, Chigumbura alternated between sixes and fours before Alauddin bowled another wide and was finished off with a six. Alauddin ended up conceding 93 in his 10 overs.^[1] A world record at the time, it has since been broken, and now stands at 43 runs from one over.^[2]

In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Rajshahi Kings team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.^[3]

In May 2021, he was selected to play for the Brothers Union in the 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League.^[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]

• Alauddin Babu at ESPNcricinfo

This biographical article related to Bangladeshi cricket is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e