Mushfiqur Rahim etched his title in historical past books when he grew to become the first-ever Bangladesh batter to amass 5,000 Take a look at runs after the recently-concluded first Take a look at match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Chattogram. With the sport ending in a stalemate in what was a high-scoring contest, Bangladesh would now be hoping to be on the profitable facet within the second sport.
In the meantime, the Mominul Haque-led facet has obtained an enormous setback after it has been reported that Rahim wouldn’t be collaborating within the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Other than the veteran wicketkeeper-batter, among the key gamers together with Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, and Nayeem Islam would even be lacking the Take a look at collection resulting from harm considerations.
Mushfiqur will likely be unavailable for the West Indies tour: Khaled Mahmud
”Sure, he (Mushfiqur) will likely be unavailable within the West Indies tour as he needs to carry out his Hajj,” mentioned Bangladesh workforce director Khaled Mahmud as quoted by Cricbuzz. The report additional provides that the veteran cricketer “has already knowledgeable the board about his unavailability as he plans to carry out a spiritual pilgrimage.”
Bangladesh will likely be touring the Caribbean islands for an all-format bilateral collection that options two Checks together with three ODIs and three T20Is every. So far as the schedule of this one-month tour is worried, the primary Take a look at match will likely be performed at Antigua on June 16 and the second at St Lucia on the twenty fourth.
The red-ball collection will likely be adopted by the T20Is with the primary and second video games being performed in Dominica on July 2 and three respectively whereas the ultimate match will likely be contested in Guyana on July 7. The tour concludes with three One Day Internationals that will likely be performed in Guyana itself on July 10, 13, and 16. As of now, Bangladesh could be specializing in the duty at hand and that’s the second and closing Take a look at match of the continuing residence collection which will likely be performed on the Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Stadium in Dhaka on Might 23.
