Mahmdullah's perfect preparation for India series!
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||CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah took the National Cricket League as a perfect platform to prepare with bat and ball for the upcoming tour of India, scheduled from November 3.
After doing well with the cherry in the opening round of NCL the national team’s senior member have scored a superb century in the second round of the ongoing National Cricket League against Sylhet Division, though it went in vain.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board eyeing the NCL as a focal point to stir the national team cricketers ahead of three-match T20 series and two Test matches that will also open their account in the Test Championship, Mahmudullah seemed to have taken the opportunity with both hands to get loads of confidence from the tournament.
After scoring two back-to-back fifties in his first two innings of NCL, the all-rounder has now played another 111 runs innings off 243 balls decorated with six fours and a six.
Mahmudullah came up with the innings after the all-rounder scoring a fifty (63) in the hitting eight boundaries in the first innings against Sylhet Division.
Mahmudullah, who has 43.7-innings-average this year in Test cricket, played an identical 63 runs innings in his first innings in the round-1 of the ongoing domestic tournament with one over the boundary and five boundaries as the all-rounder saw the player of the match award coming towards him after the four days of play. But that’s not only because of his contribution with bat for Dhaka Metro.
Though, in the second round, the all-rounder was not seen bowling an amount of overs that can be evaluated properly but the all-rounder took six wickets in the first round of NCL against Chittagong Division at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.
The right-arm bowler took three wickets in each innings against Chittagong allowing 55 runs in 26 overs and just 26 runs in 13 overs respectively.
So far, Mahmudullah, who has just returned to bowling workload, bowled 41 overs in the domestic red ball cricket where he is maintaining 2.46-economy rate after three innings of bowling.
Mahmudullah has just bowled five overs in Test cricket this year and has two wickets by his name as one of them came in the Tiger’s recent solitary Test fixture against Afghanistan.
Mahmudullah had faced a recurrence of an old shoulder injury during the first Test against New Zealand in Hamilton, when he dived on the field. Subsequent scans on his shoulder ahead of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 revealed a Grade 3 tear, keeping him out of rolling his arm over at the 50-over event.
He subsequently bowled in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka following the tournament, as well as in the one-off Test against Afghanistan after that, but not at full intensity.
