Khondaker Mosharraf Hossain (20 November 1981 – 19 April 2022), nicknamed Rubel, was a Bangladeshi

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er. He was a left-handed batsman and

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bowler. He had played five

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(ODI) matches for Bangladesh.

Career

After making his debut in 2001–02, he appeared for

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up to the end of the 2006–07 season with a season for

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in 2004–05. He represented Bangladesh A in 2005–06 and 2006–07. He was a regular face in the first class cricket, where he picked up 392 wickets at an average of 29.02 in 112 matches. He took three five wicket hauls in first-class cricket, with a best of 9–105 against

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in an innings where he also took 10 wickets in that match. He's also made three first-class fifties, with a top score of 85 against Chittagong Division. On 9 March 2008, he made his debut in

(ODI) against South Africa. On 1 October 2016, against Afghanistan, he made his comeback in the national side when he played his second ODI match after a nearly eight-year gap, since his debut in 2008 against South Africa. In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the

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team, following the draft for the

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Illness and premature death

In March 2019, Mosharraf was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Later, He returned to cricket after going through a

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from

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in Singapore. However, in November 2021, he went through another brain surgery from a hospital in

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. Hossain was receiving

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regularly but as his health suddenly deteriorated, he was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of United Hospital in Dhaka. On 15 March 2022, he was admitted to the ICU of

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. On 19 April 2022, he died after suffering from the prolonged

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