I paid fine with my first man of the match award- Taskin
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh pace bowler Taskin Ahmed said that he had to gave away his first man of the match award as fine in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Veteran opener Tamim Iqbal hosted a Facebook live session with his teammates Taskin Ahmed and Rubel Hossain where Taskin shared how he had to pay match fine while playing for the first time in a big stage like Bangladesh Premier League [BPL] and also in the semi-final for Chittagong Vikings.
The 25-year-old paceman said after his Under-19 World Cup he got called to play for Chittagong Vikings a franchise team of the second edition of BPL.
"After the Under-19 World Cup in Australia. I got picked by Chittagong Vikings where Rubel Bhai [Rubel Hossain] was also in that team. All renowned fast bowler was in that team," Taskin said in the live Facebook session arranged by Tamim and joined by him and Rubel Hossain.
Taskin also shared how in the big line-up of star bowlers he got picked himself to be playing his first match in the BPL.
"It was that match. Sujon sir picked me in that team. Jason Roy, Brendan Taylor- all big stars. Rubel Bhai was a regular player along with Shaun Tait, Kevin Cooper. I don't have any chance to play. We lost the first five-match in a row, then we won the next six match in a row and confirmed semi-final. In the 11th match which was no value of losing or winning in that match, I got a chance to play. I had an average performance in that match. In my four-over spell, I gave 30 runs and got one wicket," He said.
The right-handed paceman was not expecting himself in the semi-final but the things got changed overnight for him and also how he got the chance to play in the semi-final while being nervous In his second Twenty20 in BPL-2 for the Chittagong Kings he was named man of the match for his bowling figures of 4/31 against Duronto Rajshahi in the semi-final. But had to give away the whole money which he got as a match fine.
"After one day the semi-final match and I was expecting that I will not be playing because it's a semi-final match. So in the afternoon when we were going as it was a night match. In the team meeting in the afternoon, Sujon sir told me that Taskin you are going to play. Because Jacob Oram was having some injury problem. At the last moment when I heard that I'm going to play, I was very nervous and my hand and feet were turning into cold," Taskin said.
I was nervous entering the stadium. When I went bowling, I had a six over the point in my first ball, a boundary in the second and again a six in the third bowl. I thought I'm finished my career is finished here. I already gave 14 runs in just three bowl. When I was going to my run-up mark I was thinking that I already had 14 runs from three-ball, let's see what happens. In the next bowl, the batsmen got bowled," He added.
"In the end of the day, I had a USD 500 fine. The amount I got as the man of the match, I had to pay that as a fine," Taskin concluded
