Ashraful, Nasir failed in NCL beep test
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||CF Correspondent||
Former national captain Mohammad Ashraful and seasoned domestic campaigners Nasir Hossain failed in the beep test conducted by the Bangladesh Cricket Board ahead of the upcoming National Cricket League.
BCB made beep test mandatory for all the players eyeing to take part in the NCL while in order to enhance the physical fitness board have raised the bench mark for the beep test .
Last year BCB introduced the fitness test in the NCL and it was decided that players getting nine points will be considered for the traditional first-class tournament but this year it had increased to 11 points and it had raised quite a few eyebrows as large numbers of cricketers complained that they have not got enough time to prepare them for the beep test as they were informed only couple of days back about this development
Mohammed Ashraful was one of the superstars of Bangladesh cricket but his involvement in match-fixing saga has left him out of cricket for long time.
Since returning back after completing his sanction in 2017 he is playing regularly in domestic cricket while he also played in the UK in the Kent League and as a result it was expected that he would pass the beep test but his failure came as a surprise to everyone.
He got only 9.7 with the standard remains 11.it was a surprise to lot of people because he told the media couple of days back that he played over 30 to 40 games in the Kent league and was in good shape in terms of fitness.
Nasir Hossain also failed to pass the fitness test scoring 9.7 and it was surprising too as he was considered one the fittest player in the circuit.
There is also some controversy between match fitness and beep fitness among the players but BCB want to change the fitness culture of the players and thus introduce beep fitness test.
