Mominul Haque

Who is Mominul Haque?

Mominul Haque is one of very few cricketers from the coastal town of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, which is the country's most popular tourist destination. The laid back life in front of the world's longest sandy beach probably was never going to be Mominul's calling as he was sent to the BKSP, the Bangladesh's biggest sports institute, as a cricket student. Soon he emerged as dependable left-hand batsman in age-group cricket, making his first-class debut in the 2008-09 season for Dhaka Division. He was picked in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup squad in 2010 and the following year, the National Cricket Academy called him as their 2011 graduate. He continued to progress in domestic cricket as a middle-order batsman, and was picked in the Bangladesh A team's tour to the West Indies the same year where he scored 150 in the opening match of the tour.

There were calls for his selection in the Bangladesh team during the Test series against Pakistan but it would have been too early. He finally earned his first call-up on the back of two first-class hundreds when the selectors took him as a replacement for the injured Shakib Al Hasan for the first two ODIs against West Indies in November 2012.