Bangladesh’s sensational batter Mushfiqur Rahim made a passionate, which is being referred to as exaggerated, speech in the course of the press convention after the conclusion of the fourth day’s play towards Sri Lanka. His emotional speech got here after he scored his eighth Check century, thereby changing into the primary Bangladeshi participant to succeed in 5000 Check runs.
After Bangladesh’s bowlers restricted Sri Lanka to 397 runs within the first innings, a superb efficiency from Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur helped Bangladesh take a lead within the recreation. Rahim put up a composed century as he battled his method by means of the Sri Lankan bowling unit to maintain his workforce going. On the finish of the day’s play, Mushfiqur made some controversial statements, stating expertise has no worth in his nation.
“I believe there’s no worth for expertise in Bangladesh. It’s a big deal to have performed for 17 years. Allah has written what awaits me, and I need to carry out that a lot properly. It’s a nice feeling to develop into the primary Bangladeshi to succeed in 5,000 Check runs. However I’m certain I’m not the final one. There’ll be lots of succesful gamers amongst our seniors and juniors who can attain 8,000 or 10,000 runs,” Mushfiqur was quoted by Cricbuzz.
Within the 18 innings after his double hundred towards Zimbabwe in 2020, Mushfiqur had failed to attain the three-digit mark. The one event he got here close to was towards Pakistan in 2021, when he scored 91. Since then, he has registered just one 50+ rating that got here up towards South Africa of their latest collection.
Once I don’t rating runs, I really feel like digging a gap for myself: Rahim
The wicketkeeper-batter mentioned that in his nation, a participant receives appreciation provided that he performs properly. He revealed that he has been in comparison with Australian batting legend Don Bradman every time he has hit a century. However every time he has did not put up a great rating, it has been like a nightmare for him.
“Solely in Bangladesh, I’ve seen that folks evaluate me to Bradman once I rating a century, however then once I don’t rating runs, I really feel like digging a gap for myself. I’m one of many senior gamers so we’re not going to be round for lengthy. However that is changing into a tradition, so the youthful gamers want the help. If I’ve to spend a lot time tackling these items off the sphere, our on-field duties get affected,” he said.
