Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza on Monday reacted to the communal violence going down in his nation and referred to as it the ‘two defeats’ in reference to their shedding begin to the ICC T20 World Cup event going down in Dubai.
Scotland surprised fancied Bangladesh by six runs after Chris Greaves’ magnificent all-round show for a dream begin within the ICC T20 World Cup on an eventful Sunday evening in Al Amerat. Greaves led a superb lower-order fightback with a 28-ball 45 as Scotland recovered from a hopeless state of affairs to put up 140 for 9 of their first spherical Group B opener of the T20 showpiece.
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Meanwhile, communal violence rocked Bangladesh after an alleged blasphemy incident at a Durga Puja pavilion in Cumilla, bordering Chandpur and about 100 km from Dhaka, resulting in the deployment of paramilitary forces in additional than half of administrative districts.
Several incidents of assaults on locations of worship of minority communities by unidentified Muslim males had been reported from throughout the nation. Several homes of Hindus in Bangladesh had been additionally set on hearth late on Sunday in a village in Rangpur district’s Pirgonj upazila, about 255 kms Dhaka, the bdnews24.com reported.
Mashrafe, who can be a Member of Parliament, posted an image of the burning village in Pirganj, Rangpur and wrote, “We have seen two defeats yesterday [Sunday]. One was Bangladesh team’s defeat, which has hurt me. And, another defeat belongs to the whole of Bangladesh, which has destroyed my heart. We never wanted this version of Bangladesh. Many dreams and many stories of fights of lives have finished in a blink of an eye. May Allah show us the right way.”
কাল দুইটা হার দেখেছি,একটা বাংলাদেশ ক্রিকেট দল, যেটায় কষ্ট পেয়েছি।আর একটি পুরো বাংলাদেশের, যা হৃদয় ভেঙ্গে চুরমার করেছে।
এ লাল সবুজ তো আমরা চাইনিকতো কতো সপ্ন,কতো কষ্টার্জিত জীবন যুদ্ধ এক নিমিষেই শেষ।
আল্লাহ আপনি আমাদের হেদায়েত দিন। pic.twitter.com/gYEwWLsVEj
— Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (@ImMashrafe02) October 18, 2021
The assaults started final Friday and have claimed no less than 5 lives whereas leaving a number of injured.
