Mashrafee informed Domingo about his plan of action
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh ODI skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza met with the team management to inform them about his way of action for the upcoming days.
The experienced pace bowler had no contract what so ever with the team management since the last World Cup and on Friday expressed that he is preparing him to take part in the upcoming Dhaka Premier League.
Bangladesh will play three ODI’s against Zimbabwe during the upcoming home series in February that will also have one-off Test match along with two Twenty20 internationals.
The unexpected meeting of Mashrafee with the team management that included head coach Russell Domingo and chief selector Minhajul -Abedin at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium created quite a noise among the available journalist who arrived there to cover the opening game of Bangladesh Cricket League between Walton Central Zone and Islamic Bank East Zone.
There was high scale speculation regarding the meeting between Mashrafee and team management considering his pending retirement from international cricket.
‘’Mashrafee came to meet the head coach as he did not have any communication with him since the World Cup,’’ Minhajul Abedin told Cricfrenzy on Friday.
‘’He came to inform us that he is preparing to take part in the upcoming Dhaka Premier League, [country’s traditional 50-over tournament of clubs based in Dhaka],’’ he said.
‘’But we did not had any discussion about the ODI’s against Zimbabwe,’’ he said.
Mashrafe Mortaza has decided to withdraw his name from the list of nationally contracted cricketers for 2020, BCB president Nazmul Hasan announced, fuelling rumours of the 36-year-old's retirement. Akram Khan, the cricket operation chairman at BCB, had recently told Cricbuzz that Mortaza's contract renewal "largely depends on him" as the board isn't sure what the all-rounder is thinking about his international career.
"Mashrafe called us today and said that he is not interested to take the national contract. He wants it to be given to some youngster," Nazmul Hasan said on Sunday (January 12). "We wanted to give him a farewell but now it seems he is not interested. He wants to continue, even if that means playing domestic cricket. Earlier in England, during the World Cup, I had told him that we want to give him a farewell match in Dhaka but now it seems that we have to talk to him again to know a clear picture."
