Liton Das


Liton Kumar Das is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman and wicket-keeper.He is the highest individual run scorer in an ODI innings by a Bangladeshi Cricketer. He is one of the most stylish batsmen Bangladesh ever produced.

Personal Life

Liton was born in Dinajpur, Bangladesh to a Bengali Hindu family. His elder brother, Bappy Das is also a Cricketer. In 2019, Liton married his long-time girlfriend Debosree Sonchita.

Domestic career

He played for Bangladesh at the Under-19 World Cups in 2012 and 2014. Playing for Rangpur Division in the 2014–15 National Cricket League, he scored five centuries and finished the seven-match season with 1,024 runs at an average of 85.33. Rangpur Division won the championship.
In January 2017, he scored his maiden double-century in first-class cricket, playing for East Zone in the 2016–17 Bangladesh Cricket League. As a result of this, he was recalled to Bangladesh's Test squad for their one-off match against India in February 2017.
He scored the most runs in the 2016–17 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, with 752 in 14 matches.
In April 2018, he was the leading run-scorer in the 2017–18 Bangladesh Cricket League, with 779 runs in six matches, including scoring 274 runs in one innings.
In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Sylhet Sixers team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League. He played for Jamaica Tallawahs in the 2019 Caribbean Premier League,making his first appearance in an overseas franchise league.He scored 44 runs in Two match on his tournament. In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Rajshahi Royals in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League & he scored 455 runs on this tournament.

International career

2015-2019

Liton made his Test debut against India on 10 June 2015. He made his One Day International debut, also against India, on 18 June 2015. He made his Twenty20 International debut against South Africa on 5 July 2015.
On 2 March 2017, Bangladesh's captain Mushfiqur Rahim was asked to play as a batsman only, with Das becoming the wicket-keeper for the Test series against Sri Lanka.
On 28 September 2018, against India in the final of the 2018 Asia Cup, he scored his maiden ODI century and went on to make 121 with 12 boundaries and 2 sixes. He would eventually win “Man of the Match” for his effort, despite Bangladesh losing the match off the final ball.
In April 2019, he was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
He made his World Cup debut against the West Indies where he scored an unbeaten 94 runs and made an unbeaten 189 run partnership with Shakib Al Hasan which helped Bangladesh to a famous 7 wicket victory.

2020-present

In March 2020, when Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh, in the first ODI, Das score 126 runs, his second century in ODI and became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score a century at Sylhet.
In the 3rd ODI, he scored his 1000th runs in ODIs then he with Tamim Iqbal made the highest partnership for Bangladesh for any wicket in ODIs. as well as scoring 176 runs off 143 balls, made the highest individual score by any Bangladeshi batsman in ODIs. He scored 311 runs at an average of 103.68 in the ODI series and eventually become the "Player of the Tournament" jointly with Tamim Iqbal.