|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim bat auction have been halted for the time being due to fake bidding, said officials on Monday.

Mushfiqur put up the bat for auction through which he scored country’s first-ever Test double hundred with an aim to raise funds for coronavirus affected people on May 9 and was expected to end on May 14.

Mushfiq’s management company, Nibco struck a deal with Pickaboo.com, an e-commerce site, where the bat was placed for auction but on Monday the auction was halted from 3:30 PM till the report was filed.

‘’We are hoping to start it any time soon,’’ a Nibco official told Cricfrenzy adding that until Tuesday, there were 53 bids, with the price exceeding Tk 41 lakh for the bat.

‘‘This is unusual. We have seen some fake bidders manipulated the process to artificially raise the price. We have allowed raising the price Tk 10,000 at once. But some people raised the price Tk 80,000 at a time. We are afraid it will discourage the genuine bidders,’’ said the official known to be managing Mushfiqur for quite some time.