improve its results. He played for Rainhill CC in a local cricket league in England. 2008-09 Season On 6 February 2009, Ashraful took part in the player auction for the 2009 Indian Premier League. The Mumbai Indians bought him for his base price of US$75,000, but he only played one game and scored just 2 runs. 2011-12 Season He returned to domestic cricket in 2011, scoring a century for Dhaka Division in the opening match of the National Cricket League. Dhaka won the one-day competition, and Ashraful, who was the second-highest run-getter with 331 runs and also claimed 7 wickets in 7 matches, was named player of the tournament. For the 2011/12 season, the National Cricket League of Bangladesh was expanded from six first-class teams to eight. Dhaka Metropolis and Rangpur Division were the new teams, with Ashraful captaining the former. Though he scored his first first-class century in over a year in the competition, Ashraful was dropped from the ODI squad to face Pakistan in December. During a match in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League in January 2012, Ashraful was involved in an incident with Tamim Iqbal that led to the latter being banned for one match and fined. 2017-18 Season He was the leading run-scorer for Kala Bagan Krira Chakra in the 2017–18 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, with 665 runs in 13 matches. He will play for Minister Group Rajshahi in Bangabandhu T20 cup. Bangladesh Premier League Dhaka Gladiators The Bangladesh Cricket Board founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year. The BCB made Ashraful the 'icon player' for Dhaka Gladiators. Dhaka won the tournament, and in twelve matches Ashraful scored 258 runs on an average of 28.66, making him the BPL's second highest run-scorer amongst Bangladesh batsmen. In the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League, Ashraful scored 358 runs in 14 matches on an average of 29.83. He also scored a century (103* off 58) against the Khulna Royal Bengals chasing a target of 177. International career Debut Ashraful made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe on 11 April 2001, where he made 9 runs as Bangladesh lost the match by 36 runs. He took his first international wicket in the match, that of Andy Flower. Ashraful made his Test debut on 6 September 2001 against Sri Lanka. He top-scored in each innings, and although Bangladesh slumped to