Mohammad Mahmudullah (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ মাহমুদউল্লাহ রিয়াদ; born 4 February 1986), also known as Riyad, is a former Bangladeshi international cricketer who captained the national team. He plays for Dhaka Division and has represented the national team in all formats. An all-rounder, he is a lower or middle-order batter as well as an off spin bowler. He has scored more than 10,000 runs and taken 150+ wickets in international cricket. He is renowned for his ability to finish a close limited-over game. He is the first Bangladeshi to score a World Cup hundred. Mahmudullah started his career as a bowler and then converted into a batsman who could bowl off-breaks.
In the 2008-2009 Bangladeshi domestic season Mahmudullah finished as the second-highest run-scorer in the competition with 710 runs at an average of 54.61 and was subsequently recalled to the ODI squad to face Zimbabwe in three ODIs and a tri-nation series with Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year. An auction was held for teams to buy players, and Mahmudullah was bought by the Chittagong Kings for $110,000. He scored 180 runs in 10 innings with 1 fifty, and took 4 wickets.
In the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League, he scored 233 runs in 12 innings, and took 6 wickets with a best figure of conceding only two runs while he took six wickets (2/6).
In the 2015 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah top-scored for his team Barisal Bulls scoring 279 runs in 12 innings with 2 fifties. He also took 5 wickets with the ball.
Playing for his new team Khulna Titans in the 2016 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah top-scored for his team again scoring 396 runs in 14 innings with 2 fifties. With the ball, he took 10 wickets with the best figure being 3/6.
In the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah scored 312 runs in 12 innings with 2 half-centuries, and was yet again the top-scorer of his team. Besides, he took 6 wickets with the ball.
In the 2019 Bangladesh Premier League, he scored 219 runs in 12 innings with 1 fifty. He also took 9 wickets.
In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Chattogram Challengers in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League. Mahmudullah scored 201 runs in 7 innings with 1 fifty. With the ball in hand, he took 3 wickets.
In the 2021–22 Bangladesh Premier League, Mahmudullah scored 255 runs in 8 innings with 1 half-century playing for the Minister Group Dhaka. He also took 3 wickets with his best being 1/5.
In the 2023 edition, Mahmudullah played for Fortune Barishal. He scored 208 runs in 12 innings.
In the 2024 Bangladesh Premier League he was retained by Fortune Barishal. He scored 237 runs in 13 innings with 2 half-centuries.
In the next season he was again named in the Fortune Barishal squad, following the draft for the 2025 Bangladesh Premier League players' draft. He scored 206 runs in 8 innings with 2 half-centuries. He also took 1 wickets with his best being 1/6.
On 30 November 2025, in the 2026 BPL Auction he was bought by Rangpur Riders for ৳35 lakh.
For the 2017 Pakistan Super League, Mahmudullah was contracted by Quetta Gladiators. He scored 37 runs in 3 innings. With the ball, he took 7 wickets with his best figure of 3/21.
In the 2018 Pakistan Super League, Mahmudullah scored 34 runs in 2 innings. He also took 1 wicket.
In April 2021, he was signed by Multan Sultans to play in the rescheduled matches in the 2021 Pakistan Super League. However he did not feature in any of the matches.
Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League