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Full name | Alauddin Babu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rangpur, Bangladesh | 5 December 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 March 2025 |
Alauddin Babu (born 5 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer.
Babu bowls right-arm fast bowler who can bat in middle-order was included in the Bangladesh squad for the 2010 ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. He took a four-wicket haul in the first four-day match against England Under-19s in July 2009.
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]