Tushar, Sabbir ignored in BCL
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Tushar Imran, country’s highest run-getter in first-class cricket, failed to make a cut in the players’ draft of Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) 2020 after failing to touch the benchmark in beep test.
Tushar, the-36-year-old right-handed batsman has record of scoring on consistent basis in the country’s longer version format as he holds the prestigious record of being the highest run-scorer in the first-class cricket of Bangladesh with 11 thousand and 704 runs (11,704).
The right-handed batsman has 36 centuries by his name and just 296 runs short of becoming the first ever batsman to enter 12 thousand runs club in country’s longer version cricket.
But the veteran batsman fall short to beat minimum requirement in fitness test which eventually saw him neglected from the players’ draft for the tournament.
The required number was set 11 by the national team selectors to pass the fitness test to get included in the draft for BCL. Later the number was trimmed to 10.5, considering the age of the players.
Tushar managed to reach 9.8 in two attempts in the test.
Tushar also sounded disappointed after not making it to BCL draft.
“I am not so far from 12 thousand runs. If that milestone is achieved, I would have left. Even if it was not achieved, I would still retire. I just wanted to retire from the field” Tushar told on Monday.
National team selector Habibul Bashar said that the opportunity will still be there in future but the he disagrees with the fact that he would surely touch the historic milestone in the upcoming longer version tournament.
“There is no certainty that he would score 300 runs in BCL. And there is no limitation of opportunity. We have National Cricket League” Bashar told reporters on Monday.
While there was no place for Tushar, there was no place for Sabbir Rahman, Abu Hider Rony and Mehedy Hasan Rana, who was one of the stars in the just concluded BPL, in the upcoming BCL.
