A right-handed batsman, Shamsur Rahman played for the Under- 19s, Academy side and A Team before earning a national call-up, when he was included in the squad for the World Twenty20 in England in 2009. Nicknamed Shuvo, he was the leading run-scorer in the one-day competition for Dhaka Division that season. Prior to that, he also toured Zimbabwe in February 2005 with the A squad.