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  • Fitness and different issues must be thought of for Mustafizur Rahman’s Test comeback: Mominul Haque

    Mustafizur Rahman hasn’t performed Test cricket for Bangladesh since February 2021. He is presently enjoying for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2022.

    Mustafizur Rahman of Bangladesh. Courtesy: Reuters

    HIGHLIGHTSMustafizur final performed Test cricket in February 2021Mustafizur is presently enjoying for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2022The BCB stated it is going to have a dialogue with Mustafizur relating to his Test future

    Bangladesh Test skipper Mominul Haque Showrabh stated that health and loads of different components must be taken under consideration for Mustafizur Rahman’s comeback in Test cricket. The left-arm pacer from Satkhira final performed within the purest format manner again in February 2021 towards the West Indies and since then, has solely taken half in limited-overs cricket.

    After making his Test debut in 2015, the 26-year-old has solely taken half in 14 Tests, choosing up 30 wickets with two four-wicket hauls to his title. Mominul put forth his opinions after Bangladesh’s drawn Test match towards Sri Lanka on the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

    MOMINUL SPEAKS ON MUSTAFIZUR

    ”If you’re saying whether or not I demand him (Mustafizur within the Test workforce), then if the board provides him, he’ll naturally play,” Mominul was quoted as saying.

    ”Firstly, it’s important to see what number of days Mustafizur performed in pink ball (cricket) and a whole lot of issues depend upon that for what number of days he’s enjoying or not, and there’s the health problem. If we require him, we are going to play him, as a result of we’re lacking a few of our frontline bowlers,” he said.

    ”I’m not conscious what number of Tests Mustafizur performed and, to be sincere, no tempo bowler is skilled in Bangladesh and that’s the fact, and possibly they’ve performed 20 Tests altogether. What I really feel is expertise hardly issues to them (tempo bowlers),” Mominul added.

    Earlier, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (ECB) stated that it’s going to have a dialogue with Mustafizur relating to his future in Test cricket. The BCB stated that it needs Mustafizur to proceed enjoying Test cricket. The pacer is presently in India, collaborating within the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL).

    After their residence sequence towards the Sri Lankans, Bangladesh will journey to West Indies for 2 Tests, three ODIs and as many T20Is.

  • ‘It’s unbelievable’: Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque after defeating New Zealand in 1st Test

    After Bangladesh beat New Zealand by eight wickets on the ultimate day of the primary Test, profitable captain Mominul Haque praised his facet for ending the World Test Champions’ profitable run of 17 matches at dwelling.
    A sleepless Mominul was beneath strain earlier than the beginning of play on Wednesday however later hailed his facet’s efficiency for doing effectively in all departments. “I can’t describe it, it’s unbelievable. I couldn’t sleep yesterday because of the pressure,” Mominul instructed reporters after the match received over.
    “It was very important to win this test match. Two years ago, we didn’t play that much test cricket, so we were keen to improve. I think it was a team performance, we did very in all three departments. Our bowlers used the moisture really well, and the batters did really well too. I said previously that we need to win these test matches for our legacy.”
    “Bangladesh had gone into the match focusing on the process rather than the result,” he added. “You have to have a clear mindset, before playing anywhere. If you’re going out of the subcontinent, and you think to yourself that ‘it will be tough,’ then it will be tough. We didn’t focus too much on the result of the test matches, we tried to focus on the process.”
    Seamer Ebadot Hossain took a profession finest 6-46 because the vacationers dismissed New Zealand for 169 early on day 5 at Mount Maunganui after which knocked off the 40 runs for victory for the lack of two wickets. It was Bangladesh’s first win in any format of the sport in New Zealand and gave them a 1-0 lead within the two-match collection.
    The Bangladesh captain additionally praised the efficiency of Ebadot, saying he had labored rather well over the past two or three years.
    “He has come from the Air Force and used to be a volleyball player,” Mominul added. “Our coaching staff did a lot of work to support him and helped him bowl in the right areas, and it was an unbelievable spell from him.”
    The tall right-armer, who snaps to consideration and salutes when he takes a wicket, saluted twice when he bowled Taylor for 40. Then he dismissed Kyle Jamieson to depart New Zealand 160-7. Shoriful pulled off a superb diving catch at mid-wicket to finish the second dismissal.
    The hero of the match Ebadot additionally narrated his story after the match. “It’s a long story, volleyball player to Test cricketer,” Ebadot mentioned. “But I’m a soldier of the Bangladesh Air Force and I know how to salute. On New Zealand soil over the last 11 years our brothers and our teams didn’t get any wins. But when we came to New Zealand we set a goal. We raised our hands and said Yes, we have to do it and we can do it on New Zealand soil.”
    “New Zealand are Test champions so if we raise our hands and beat New Zealand on New Zealand soil our next generation will be able to beat them too.”

    Bangladesh Team dressing room celebrations following the historic win at Mount Maunganui.#BCB #cricket #BANvsNZ pic.twitter.com/78pGFQ30wP
    — Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) January 5, 2022

    Ebadot credit Bangladesh’s West Indies-born bowling coach Ottis Gibson for his transformation as a quick bowler, for urging him to pitch the ball up on off stump. That was the important thing to Bangladesh’s bowling success on the a docile pitch at Bay Oval, the place New Zealand’s shorter lengths have been unsuccessful.
    Meanwhile, New Zealand captain Tom Latham mentioned that they have been poor of their efficiency in all of the departments. “We were short in all three facets. Bangladesh showed us how to go about things on that wicket. They were able to build partnerships, to bowl well from both ends and build pressure and unfortunately we weren’t able to do it for long enough,” mentioned Latham.
    The second Test begins at Christchurch on Sunday.

  • NZ vs BAN: Batters put Bangladesh in driver’s seat on Day 3

    Captain Mominul Haque scored 88 to guide Bangladesh to a 73-run, first-innings lead over New Zealand within the first cricket Test on Monday, in considered one of its best-ever performances away from residence.

    Working exhausting with the ball on Day 3 at Bay Oval. @BCBtigers will carry a lead of 73 to Day 4. Scorecard | https://t.co/MPhNtY7nfl #NZvBAN pic.twitter.com/CZVjLckeut
    — BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) January 3, 2022
    Mominul shared a 158-run partnership with wicketkeeper Liton Das, who made 86, steering Bangladesh to 401-6 at stumps on the third day in reply to New Zealand’s first innings of 328.
    Bangladesh has seldom been so commanding in New Zealand, the place it has by no means gained a match in any format, or anyplace exterior the sub-continent.
    It started the day 175-2 with Mahmudul Hasan Joy 70 not out after a 104-run partnership on the second day with Najmul Hossain Shanto (64). Joy was out early for 78 and Mominul and Liton Das then mixed in a partnership which occupied the following 52 overs and noticed the vacationers attain a first-innings lead 20 minutes after tea.
    Trent Boult dismissed each Mominul and Liton Das inside 4 overs of one another within the closing session to barely diminish the vacationers’ commanding possession. But the day belonged to Bangladesh and for the second day in a row they completed with the higher hand.
    “The boys really got stuck in,” Bangladesh batting coach Ashwell Prince stated.

    “We had a superb day yesterday however we needed to comply with it up with one other good day and the blokes did precisely that.
    “There will be two or three guys disappointed that they didn’t go on and get three figures. But all in all we had some good partnerships and it was a very good day.” The partnership between Mominul and Liton Das was essential for Bangladesh who, regardless of their excellent efficiency on the second day once they claimed New Zealand’s final 5 wickets for 70 runs and misplaced solely two wickets in two classes, nonetheless needed to consolidate their place.
    They misplaced Joy shortly to a drained shot. He adopted a ball from Neil Wagner extensive of off stump and struck the ball on to Henry Nicholls at backward level. Had they misplaced one other wicket shortly at that time, the entire exhausting work of the second day may need been misplaced.

    But the captain and the wicketkeeper dug in and batted collectively for greater than 4 hours to make sure Bangaladesh capitalized on the efforts of the bowlers and of Joy and Shanto.
    It wasn’t all the time straightforward. When he was 9, Mominul edged a ball from Neil Wagner to wicketkeeper Tim Blundell however was reprieved when tv replays confirmed Wagner had overstepped. The South Africa-born quick bowler nursed a grievance for the remainder of the day, throughout he didn’t take one other wicket, and engaged in a disagreement with Mominul till his dismissal.
    Mushfiqur Rahim got here and went shortly, bowled by Boult for 12 to go away Bangladesh 203. From then the day belonged to Mominul and Liton Das who had been lastly separated when Bangladesh was 361-5, already 33 forward.Mominul reached his fifteenth take a look at half century from 147 balls and Das his eleventh from 93 balls. His swifter scoring elevated strain on the New Zealand bowlers, who’ve bowled 156 overs.
    Mominul lastly was out, trapped lbw by Boult on 88 and Das adopted, caught by Blundell from Boult’s bowling not too removed from stumps.
    At stumps Yasir Ali was 11 not out and Mehidy Hasan 20. Wagner, New Zealand’s workhorse, had 3-98 from 38 overs and Boult had 3-61 from 30.