Shadman Islam Anik born 18 May 1995 is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. He made his Test debut for the Bangladesh cricket team in November 2018.Like in many households in Bangladesh, cricket was the topic of discussion at Shadman Islam’s dinner table too. More so because his father Shahidul Islam has been one of BCB’s most prominent age-group scouts for many years. It filled Shahidul with pride when Shadman made his Test debut against West Indies in November 2018.
Shadman Islam is a left-handed opening batsman who has been scoring plenty of runs in Bangladesh’s domestic tournaments, particularly in the first-class competitions. His Test call-up came when he led the National Cricket League scoring charts with 648 runs at 64.80 in the 2018-19 season.With a solid half-century in his debut innings, he created an impression and also looked assured during the overseas tour of New Zealand that came immediately after. Shadman has got quite a few starts in his international career thus far but the next stage for him will be to capitalize on those. In terms of potential, he has it in him to be long-serving red-ball opener for Bangladesh.He made his Test debut for Bangladesh against the West Indies on 30 November 2018. In July 2021, in the one-off match against Zimbabwe, Shadman scored his maiden century in Test cricket, with an unbeaten 115 runs in the second innings.
Shadman married Nasha Walid in July 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Nasha was a student of CSE in North South University during their marriage. Shadman announced his marriage through Facebook when he changed his relationship status to ‘married’.