Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman burst onto the scenes with his first season in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2016 for Sunrisers Hyderabad, where the management found a way to communicate with the bowler despite the language barrier.
According to sources close to Bangladesh Mustafizur Rahman and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), an old shoulder injury has resurfaced for the left-arm pacer who had been on a break since playing the Champions Trophy.
Bangladesh’s star pacer Mustafizur Rahman is suffering from a shoulder injury and is awaiting permission from BCB’s medical department to play in the DPL.
Two Bangladesh stars -- Liton Das and Mustafizur Rahman -- have not signed with any clubs for the upcoming Dhaka Premier League (DPL), and the latter may not play the league at all this season.
Bangladesh's obvious fears going into global events were well outlined in chairman of selection panel Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu's press conference during the announcement of the Champions Trophy squad on Sunday. Flat wickets or even sporting tracks, as are observed in global ICC events, have more often than not found Bangladesh wanting.
The PSL draft is scheduled to take place on January 11 next year.
The left-arm pacer, who opted out from West Indies ODIs citing family reasons, announced the news on social media.
In his take about why Bangladesh players got snubbed in the Indian Premier League auction earlier this week, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) director Nazmul Abedeen Fahim underlined that quality and the ability to perform would take precedence in franchises picking players.
Mustafizur was the only Bangladesh cricketer to get picked in the last edition's auction. He played nine matches for the Chennai Super Kings, taking 14 wickets at an economy rate of 9.26.
Mustafizur Rahman and Matheesha Pathirana picked up a wicket each to help Chennai Super Kings evade a 10-wicket loss against Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League in Lucknow on Friday.
This will be Mustafizur’s sixth match this season, who is currently fourth in the tournament’s wicket-takers’ list with 10 wickets.
“You can learn from everywhere… Maybe he [Jalal Yunus] didn’t mean it like that.”
Bangladesh Cricket Board’s cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus has defended the board’s decision to bring back Mustafizur Rahman from the IPL for the Zimbabwe series, saying Mustafizur has nothing to learn from the IPL.
Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto articulated his thoughts pretty well regarding many of the issues that have piled up between the Sri Lanka series and the upcoming Zimbabwe series.
Bangladesh’s all-format skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto vouched for his star bowler Mustafizur Rahman, saying that the left-arm pacer has ‘no shortage of commitment’ when he plays for the Tigers.
Sri Lanka's Matheesha Pathirana took four wickets while Bangladesh's Mustafizur Rahman took one for 55 as Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 20 runs in a heavyweight IPL clash at the Wankhede on Sunday.
Chennai Super Kings' Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman returned to the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai against his former franchise Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) today.
Mustafizur played for MI in the 2018 edition of the IPL, where he claimed seven wickets in as many games at an economy rate of 8.36
Kolkata batting derailed after Fizz gave away only six runs in the sixth over.
