Dhaka, July 21 (Just News): Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] president Nazmul Hassan said yesterday that the BCB will not allow Mustafizur Rahman to participate in foreign franchise-based T20 tournaments for next two years.
The BCB boss was reacting to the left-arm seamer missing the T20I series against Afghanistan and the Test series against West Indies after suffering an injury while playing for Mumbai Indians in the last edition of the Indian Premier League.
''I have told him [Mustafizur] that he will not be available [for foreign franchise-based tournaments] for the next two years. It cannot go on like this. He will pick up injuries while playing in franchise leagues and won't be available to perform national duties. It is just not acceptable that his rehabilitation from injuries will be taken care of by the board only for him to join those leagues where similar things will happen again,'' Hassan told reporters at his hometown in Bhairab yesterday.
“Recently I have witnessed a few of our senior players are not interested in playing Test cricket. For instance Shakib, he is not interested to play Test cricket and even Mustafizur is not interested. Although he never said that, he tries to avoid it as he is injury-prone and scared of playing Test cricket as it might result in more injuries,” he added.
“The wickets in West Indies were seam-friendly with green tops and their bowlers are over six feet seven inches tall. Our players were not prepared to handle bowling from such heights and I think they should have fixed the bowling machine a bit higher while batting in the nets,” was Hassan's analysis of the recent Test debacle in West Indies.
(Justnews/ys/1320hr)
