Tapash Baisya

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Tapash Baisya
Bangladesh
Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	21	56
Runs scored	384	336
Batting average	11.29	12.00
100s/50s	-/2	-/-
Top score	66	35*
Balls bowled	3376	2608
Wickets	36	59
Bowling average	59.36	41.55
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	4/72	4/16
Catches/stumpings	6/-	8/-
As of 5 April 2007 Source: [1]

Tapash Baisya (Bengali: তাপস বৈশ্য ) (born 25 December 1982 in Sylhet) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. Tapash Baisya is one of Bangladesh's best pace bowlers to date, having taken 36 Test wickets, although they have come at a bowling average of nearly 60. Nevertheless, he has taken the second-most wickets of any Bangladeshi fast bowler, behind Mashrafe Mortaza. Baisya has, however, only taken four wickets in a Test innings once - he took four for 72 against West Indies on their 2002-03 tour of Bangladesh. However, two of those wickets were Daren Powell and Jermaine Lawson, batting at nine and eleven respectively. With the bat he has scored 2 Test 50's as well as a 49.

Despite Bangladesh's sizeable Hindu population, Baisya is one of very few Hindus to play in the national team, possibly linked to opression of the Muslim majority on minority religions in Bangladesh.

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v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Khaled Mashud (w) • 2 Al Sahariar • 3 Alok Kapali • 4 Akram Khan • 5 Habibul Bashar • 6 Hannan Sarkar • 7 Ehsanul Haque • 8 Sanwar Hossain • 9 Khaled Mahmud • 10 Manjural Islam • 11 Mashrafe Mortaza • 12 Mohammad Ashraful • 13 Mohammad Rafique • 14 Talha Jubair • 15 Tapash Baisya • 16 Tushar Imran • Coach: Mohsin Kamal & Ali Zia

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup 1 Habibul Bashar (c) • 2 Shahriar Nafees • 3 Tamim Iqbal • 4 Aftab Ahmed • 5 Saqibul Hasan • 6 Mohammad Ashraful • 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) • 8 Mohammad Rafique • 9 Abdur Razzak • 10 Mashrafe Mortaza • 11 Shahadat Hossain • 12 Tapash Baisya • 13 Syed Rasel • 14 Rajin Saleh • 15 Javed Omar • 16 Farhad Reza • Coach: Whatmore Baisya was injured during the world cup and replaced in the squad by Reza.