Mashrafe Mortaza is one of the best fast bowlers to have played for Bangladesh. He has served Bangladesh cricket for a number of years. He has played all 3 formats of the sport. He has played 36 Test Matches for Bangladesh. In those Matches he has taken 78 Wickets at an average of 41.53. He has also played 220 ODIs for Bangladesh in which he has taken 270 Wickets. He has 1 Five Wicket Haul and 8 Four Wicket Hauls in ODI Cricket. In the T201 format he has played 54 Matches and has got 42 Wickets. In total he has taken 390 international wickets for Bangladesh. His most successful format was ODI Cricket.
Let’s take a look at the Top 5 Best Bowling Performances of Mashrafe Mortaza In ODI Cricket.
1) 6/26 vs Kenya (2006)
This is the best bowling performance in the international career of Mashrafe Mortaza. He took 6 wickets in this match against Kenya. He Bowled 10 overs for just 26 runs at 2.6 runs per over. He was at his destructive best in this innings as he did not allow the Kenya Batters to get any runs. During those days Kenya was one of the good teams in international cricket. Mashrafe Mortaza ensured that Kenya was all out for just 118 runs in the first innings. Bangladesh won this match by 6 wickets.
2) 4/38 vs India (2007)
This is one of his best bowling performances of Mashrafe Mortaza. This is the match in the 2007 ODI World Cup where everything went wrong for India and everything changed. India were batting first and Mashrafe Mortaza was at his lethal best. He bowled 9.3 overs and he gave away 38 runs which is 4 runs per over. He took wickets at regular intervals and India were all out for 191. Bangladesh won this match by 5 wickets. This is one of the most special performances for him personally as well.
3) 4/44 vs New Zealand (2008)
This bowling performance against New Zealand showed that he could bowl the best of teams out with his incredible bowling. He showed in this match that he is one of the best in the world. New Zealand were batting first and he bowled 10 overs for 44 runs. He gave away 4.4 runs per over and he took 4 wickets. He was perfect with his line and lengths and he made sure that New Zealand could not score more than 201. Bangladesh won the match easily by 7 Wickets. Mashrafe Mortaza was in the habit of winning big matches for his country.
4) 4/29 vs England (2016)
This is the 4th different team that he has delivered a match winning bowling performance against. Out of the 4 , Three are those teams which are considered better than Bangladesh. In this match England were chasing and the pressure was on. He stood up and took 4 Wickets In 8.4 overs while giving away only 29 runs which is a little more than 3 runs per over. He was the hero and Bangladesh won this match by 34 runs. This match was in 2016 which was almost a decade after the first 3 performances in this list.
5) 4/37 vs West Indies (2018)
The 5th performance in this list is also from ODI Cricket as the other four in this list. This match was against the West Indies and this was in 2018 meaning he was winning Matches for Bangladesh even after 15 years of playing international cricket. In this match West Indies were chasing and yet again it was the experienced pacer Mashrafe Mortaza that made the difference. He bowled 10 overs for 37 runs and took 4 wickets. He gave away runs just at 3.7 per over. Bangladesh won this match by 48 runs.
