Alauddin Babu

Alauddin Babu
Personal information
Born	5 December 1991 (age 33); Rangpur, Bangladesh
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	All-rounder
Career statistics
	Source: Cricinfo, 1 July 2025

Alauddin Babu (born 5 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer.

Under-19s career

Babu bowls right-arm fast bowler who can bat in middle-order was included in the Bangladesh squad for the 2010 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. He took a four-wicket haul in the first four-day match against England Under-19s in July 2009.

Domestic career

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]

References

^ Six Test players in Bangladesh A for Indian series
^ "List A Most Runs Conceded off an Over". ACS. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ "Full players list of the teams following Players Draft of BPL T20 2018-19". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^ "Teams after first day of DPL Players' transfer". Bdcrictime. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
^ "Alauddin hat-trick, Mizanur fifty help Brothers thrash Rupganj". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ "Alauddin Babu becomes the 5th Bangladeshi bowler to bag a hat-trick in T20 cricket". The Business Standard. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

External links

Alauddin Babu at ESPNcricinfo

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[1] Six Test players in Bangladesh A for Indian series

[2] "List A Most Runs Conceded off an Over". ACS. Retrieved 14 May 2023.

[3] "Full players list of the teams following Players Draft of BPL T20 2018-19". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

[4] "Teams after first day of DPL Players' transfer". Bdcrictime. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[5] "Alauddin hat-trick, Mizanur fifty help Brothers thrash Rupganj". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

[6] "Alauddin Babu becomes the 5th Bangladeshi bowler to bag a hat-trick in T20 cricket". The Business Standard. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

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