|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh Cricket Board official said on Thursday that they are quite embarrassed with the entire Mashrafee retirement saga that have virtually taken the spotlight on him rather than the team who are yet playing for a spot in the World Cup.

Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said that he is not thinking about retiring from cricket after the ongoing World Cup in England.

Although Mashrafe said that this World Cup would definitely be his last but also informed that he is yet to give a thought on his retirement from international cricket altogether.

'’I don’t want to quit [international cricket] immediately because I want to play more,’’ said Mashrafee, who had already quit from T20 cricket while had last played a Test in 2009 in West Indies but could not prolong further largely due to his injury-probe career that saw him had seven surgery on his knee.

‘’It is a different matter if BCB thinks otherwise but board did not instruct me anything as such [regarding my retirement],’’ he said.

‘’Personally speaking I don’t have any plan of retiring from international cricket,’’ he said.

BCB media committee chairman Jalal Yunus reacted sharply with the unexpected turn of events and insisted that this retirement talks will hamper the team performance in the long runs.

‘’I think we should not talk about this retirement at this point of time because it will only make them lose their focus at the middle of the tournament,’’ said Jalal.

‘’We[ BCB] haven’t discussed anything about his retirement,’’ he said.