Bangladesh Legend Mahmudullah Retires From International Cricket

Mahmudullah retires from international cricket [Source: @ICC/x]

Legendary Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah has announced his retirement from international cricket. The 39-year-old had already retired from Tests and T20Is in 2021 and 2024 respectively. The cricketer recently represented the Bangladesh team at the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan.

Mahmudullah will go down as one of the senior-most members of the Bangladesh cricket team, having represented the nation in 50 Tests, 239 ODIs and 141 additional T20I matches. The cricketer also aggregated 11,047 runs for Bangladesh across all international formats.

Mahmudullah calls time on his international career

Incidentally, Mahmudullah also made his international debut with an ODI, doing so with a match against Sri Lanka on Colombo back in July 2007, i.e., shortly after the 2007 ODI World Cup in the West Indies. To date, the 239-match veteran has accrued 5,689 runs to finish as Bangladesh’s fourth highest run-maker in the format after Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal.

Mahmudullah's retirement post [Source: Mahmudullah Riyad/Facebook]

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Maintaining an average of 36.46, the right-hander smashed four centuries and 32 half-centuries in the process. He also picked up 82 wickets in the format to emerge as one of the greatest white-ball all-rounders in Bangladesh history.

He recently travelled to Pakistan for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. In his last match played against New Zealand at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Mahmudullah managed to score just four from 14 balls as Bangladesh lost the match by five wickets.

Nonetheless, Mahmudullah left a lasting legacy in Bangladesh’s cricketing lore with his immense contributions on the field over the course of the past 18 years.

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