Celebrations form an integral part of the game. It is the result of something good that has happened in a game for a specific side. A lot of players have a celebration style of their own—and Bangladesh’s Nazmul Hossain Apu has rocked the Bangladeshi cricket fraternity with his celebration approach.

The slow-left arm bowler had a good outing in the Bangladesh Premier League, where he fully employed his snake celebration after getting a wicket. When asked about his inspiration behind the celebration, he named Darren Sammy and said that the West Indians’ words resulted in the celebration.

“When I was playing with Darren Sammy for Rajshahi last time [in the BPL], he claimed that spinners are like snakes,” he told Ekattor TV.

“And that’s when it hit me that he is right, that I have to attack after seeing the movement of a batsman, like a snake.

“To do that, however, I knew that I had to bowl well—and ultimately, that’s where the celebration came from. So whenever I get a wicket now, I do this celebration.”

Apu then recalled a moment he had with Mashrafe’s daughter, who is apparently a fan of his celebration and does that every time Hossain gets a wicket.

“I enjoy it [the celebration]. One day, while going to a hotel after finishing a match, Mashrafe bhai’s daughter Humaira told me that ‘uncle, I like your celebration and whenever you come to bowl, I imitate your snake celebration and strike everybody with it when you get a wicket.”

Finally, Nazmul Hossain, who was seen doing the celebration with Chris Gayle in the dressing room, revealed that the big West Indian, too, loved the celebration style.

“Whenever I got a wicket [for Rangpur], the big man [Chris Gayle] always ran towards me and tried to do the celebration before I could while also shouting ‘my snake, my snake!’