balls profile: Mohammad Ashraful

Started his test career with a hundred on debut.  What an idiot.  As if he was ever going to live up to that.  Still has the talent, but if Bangladeshi cricket ever had a Mickey Rourke figure it would be Ashraful.  His form has been so bad for so long that when he gets picked even the selectors apologise.  Is perhaps the worst leaver of a cricket ball in the history of cricket, although hitting it has not done him much good either.  Is currently working on a shot that looks like a leave but is actually a flick off the pads for 2.  His nickname is Crashraful, it is not an ironic nickname.

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