A small and fleet-footed opener, good against spin and strong off the front
foot.  Useful fielder in the deep too and "The best-looking player in their
side," according to the former Zimbabwe star Dave Houghton.  Definitely the
most promising opener Bangladesh has had since the retirement of Athar Ali
Khan.  Mehrab's uncle, Azhar Hussein, made Bangladesh's first ODI fifty
against New Zealand in 1990 and his nephew went one better by hitting
Bangladesh's maiden ODI century nine years later, (see below).

Although still young, Mehrab has already had to cope with a couple of major
traumas in his cricketing career to date.  It was a fierce pull shot from
Mehrab in a Bangladeshi domestic match in 1998 which led to the Indian
cricketer Raman Lamba being struck on the head and tragically killed.  After
the 1999 World Cup, a tournament in which Mehrab batted tenaciously in three of his five matches, he suffered a career threatening knee injury which
needed major treatment abroad.

Mehrab has since recovered however and made two first-class centuries in
Bangladesh's inaugural first-class domestic season in 2000-2001.  Has even
begun to use his right-arm medium pace bowling to good effect in domestic
one day cricket.