Taskin, Mushy leave for Zim-Afro T10 League; Shakib set for GT20 League

Bangladesh Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan, pacer Taskin Ahmed and wicketkeeper-batter Mushfiqur Rahim left the country on Tuesday night as they head to fulfill their commitments in different franchise leagues.   

All three Bangladesh players boarded a Dubai-bound flight from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. From Dubai, Taskin and Mushfiqur will fly for Zimbabwe to take part in the Zim-Afro T10 League while Shakib is set to go to the USA before joining Montreal Tigers, who had picked him as an icon player for the third edition of the Global T20 League in Canada. 

Both Mushfiqur and Taskin were supposed to leave for Zimbabwe on Monday but had to wait a day longer for their visa to be processed.  

Taskin, who will feature for Bulawayo Braves in the Zim-Afro T10 League, picked up two wickets against Afghanistan in the second T20I on Sunday as Bangladesh won the series 2-0.

Mushfiqur, on the other hand, was directly signed by Joburg Buffaloes. Taskin and Mushfiqur are the only two cricketers from Bangladesh to play in the league.

Earlier, following the completion of Bangladesh's 2-0 win in their two-match T20I series against Afghanistan in Sylhet, Taskin and Shakib took a lift on Afghanistan star Rashid Khan's chartered flight right after the final game on Sunday. Rashid was supposed to fly to the United States to take part in the Major League Cricket (MLC), with his side, MI New York, sending the chartered flight to fly the cricketer to the USA.  

Alongside Shakib, Liton Das will also feature in the Global T20 League in Canada, for which the right-handed opener had already left the country on Tuesday.

The Tigers have no international cricket scheduled for now as their next assignment is the Asia Cup which will get underway on September 5.