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Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Bengali: মাশরাফি বিন মর্তুজা pronunciation  (help·info); born 5 October 1983) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer and politician who is the former captain in all three formats of the game (Test, Twenty20 and One Day Internationals) for the Bangladesh national cricket team and member of the parliament Jatiya Sangsadfrom Narail-2. He was ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPNWORLD FAME 100 in 2019.[9][10] He became only the fifth bowler in the history to take 100 ODI wickets as a captain.[11][12] He is the first pace bowler in the Bangladesh cricket history who bowled the quickest delivery clocking 148 km/h during a Test against New Zealand at Hamilton in 2001.[13][14] He broke into the national side in late 2001 against Zimbabweand represented Bangladesh before having played a single first-class match. Mortaza captained his country in one Test and seven One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 2009 and 2010, however injury meant he was in and out of the side and Shakib Al Hasan was appointed captain in Mortaza's absence. Mortaza used to be considered one of the fastest bowlers produced by Bangladesh, previously bowling in the mid-145s-148s km/h in the 2000s,[13][14][15] and regularly opens the bowling. He is a useful lower-middle orderbatsman, with a first-class century and three Test half centuries to his name. Mortaza's career has been hampered by fifteen injuries and he has undergone a total of ten operations on his knees and ankles.[16