Shahriar Nafees Ahmed (Bengali: শাহরিয়ার নাফীস আহমেদ; born: 1 May 1985) is a former Bangladeshi cricketer, who played all formats of the game, and was also a former T20I captain for Bangladesh.
He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Bangladesh in 2005 against England, and later the same year played his first Test.
The members of the team were given 10-year bans by the Bangladesh Cricket Board which were lifted when they left the league.
He is the eldest of three sons of retired army officer Mohiuddin Ahmed and his wife Salma Anjum.
Nafees finished 2006 with over 1,000 ODI runs, becoming the first Bangladeshi to pass the milestone in a calendar year.
Despite his good performance Nafees was originally selected on the grounds that Tamim Iqbal was injured and eventually made way for him in the series against Zimbabwe and he was placed on standby in case of an injury.
[13] Included in Bangladesh's squad for the 2011 World Cup,[13] Nafees played in two matches (scoring 42 runs) as the team exited the tournament in the group stage.
[14] He was retained in the squad to face Australia in three ODIs immediately after the World Cup finished in April,[15] and struck two half-centuries that cemented his place in the side.
[17] In the one-off Test, his first since January 2010,[11] he made scores of 50 and 9 as Bangladesh unexpectedly slid to defeat.