Trading brandy words with Shakib in WC was all jokes: Riyad
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh T20 skipper Mahmudullah Riyad urged that the dressing room talk should not be leaked rather it must be kept in private.
It had happened while a report surfaced out and Mahmudullah lost the support of the dressing room. Centering the incident, he had a bitter rift with Shakib Al Hasan, who asked the skipper to drop Mahmudullah after his slow innings against England in the 2019 World Cup.
Mahmudullah brought the matter back from memory lawns in a Facebook live chat session with Cricfrenzy, where he said that dressing room is so private to players, who are connected with that place in various ways and that it should be respected by everyone and should not come out or be discussed with others.
“I can’t say about backstabbing, I can say only about my perspective. I want to say two things. One thing is that the dressing room is such a place which is our own space and I personally respect everyone’s space,” Mahmudullah Riyad said.
“There’s a lot of emotion involved, a lot of suffering involved, a lot of sweating involved and also even a lot of blood involved for many of us because a lot of the time when we go fielding our hands and feet get cut off. I personally will not share my dressing room conversation with anyone, never-ever. I don’t like it if any other of my teammates does it,” he added.
The right-handed all-rounder said that if anything comes in front of the public, it should come out properly, not in a fragmented way.
Clarifying the rift between Shakib and him, Riyad said that they didn’t have any conversation on that day so there is no question of quarreling.
“If anything comes in public, it should come out properly; it shouldn’t come out in a fragmented way. And the words that came out were not true. It was not true fully. The matter was twisted and forwarded in a different way, which is why I was upset,” he added.
“Basically we haven’t had anything between Shakib and me. We haven’t uttered a single word to each other, so how there will be any fight of words. It was a joke. For this reason, I was upset for some time, but then again now it’s all okay,” Mahmudullah concluded.
