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Junaid Siddique

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PositionBatsman
Born30 Oct 1987 (38 years)
NationalityBangladesh flagBangladesh
NicknameImrose

Mohammad Junaid Siddique is a left handed batsman and a right arm offbreak bowler with the Bangladesh cricket team. He has also played cricket for the Bangladesh A and the Rajshahi Division cricket teams.

Junaid started playing first class cricket since 2003. He made his debut in International cricket in a One day international match against New Zealand at Auckland in 2007. Siddique scored 13 runs off 33 balls which included a boundary and was caught by Jason Gillespie off a ball by Mills. New Zealand went on to win the match by 6 wickets with 44 balls remaining.

The following year Siddique made his test debut in a match against New Zealand at Dunedin. After getting caught out by Fleming off a ball by Martin, Siddique managed to score only a run in the first innings. In the second innings, Siddique played an awesome 74 runs in 144 balls which included 12 boundaries and got caught by Fleming off a ball by Martin. New Zealand however, won the match by 9 wickets. Siddique was accompanied by his team mates Tamim Iqbal and Sajidul Islam who were also playing their debut test match. Siddique was a part of the Bangladesh team that played in the 2007 Twenty20 Championships.

In a total of 52 One day International matches, Siddique has scored 1170 runs at a strike rate of 41.22. He also has a total of 942 runs with a high score of 106 runs and a strike rate of 41.22 in the 18 test matches that he has played.