Rating the Bangladesh Test captains so far

2 Habibul Bashar

The captain who led Bangladesh to their first ever Test victory in 2005 will without a doubt go down in history as one of the nation’s finest captains. Habibul Bashar was the Test captain from 2004 to middle of 2007 and during his 18 Tests as captain, Bangladesh became a much-improved side.

Although Bashar’s team did lose 13 out of 18 Tests, his team also drew 4 Tests, two of them being away from home in Zimbabwe and the West Indies. Even drawing a Test was an achievement for Bangladesh in those days since the team had still not learned that a match that cannot be won shouldn’t necessarily be lost.

Under him, Bangladesh seemed to have turned a corner as a Test match team.