Mushfiqur ready to auction his maiden Test double hundred bat for coronavirus fight
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh batsman Mushfiqur Rahim said on Sunday that he have decided to put his bat in the auction through which he scored his maiden double hundred against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2013 to raise fund for the coronavirus pandemic.
During this pandemic people from every sphere is coming forward to help the distressed that includes cricketers as well.
Country’s first-class cricketers, who are on Bangladesh Cricket Board payroll, will donate half of their one month salary to the newly-formed charity fund corona affected people by Cricketer’s Welfare Association of Bangladesh.
Earlier, all cricketers, who are under national contract and have participated in the recent home series against Zimbabwe, promised to donate half of their one-month salary for the same cause.
Along the way, cricketers are also helping people from their own pockets as well by providing financial assistance.
Mushfiqur became the first Bangladeshi cricket to take the route opened up by England’s Jos Butler earlier auctioned his ICC World Cup-winning jersey to raise funds to fight COVID-19 through an online auction.
‘’Definitely, the bat is very special to me because it is attached to history. Not everyone can become the first double centurion for his country. I had special liking for this bat. But there is nothing more important than human life and so I have decided to put it into the auction,’’ Mushfiqur told reporters on Sunday.
‘’If through this sacrifice I can help one or two people than that will be my biggest achievement,’’ he said.
‘’If I find a good response in the auction for the bat than I have got few more things that I will put up in auction,’’ he said.
‘’I don’t think there is nothing important than helping out people during their time of distress,’’ he said.
However, Mushfiqur is yet to decide on how to go after the entire auction process as the auction is not a very common phenomenon in Bangladesh but insisted that he is planning to put the bat in an online auction.
