Shakib hones his skills in quite manner at BKSP to mark comeback to international cricket
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Shakib Al Hasan, premier all-rounder of Bangladesh, opts for Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) to take his intense individual preparation to mark his much-awaiting return to competitive cricket after a long hiatus.
The all-rounder has been serving a year-long ban, slapped by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not reporting about bookmaker’s sinister approaches to him on several occasions in 2018.
He will be free from October 29 after being exonerated from his year-long ban on October 28. If everything drifts towards the right direction, he is supposed to return to international cricket with the second Test of the imminent Bangladesh Team’s tour in Sri Lanka.
He has been doing his work with rapt attention after being arrived in Dhaka from the United States of America (USA) for whom all from the head of the BKSP to BCB, coaches, players, fans and supporters are raring to stay beside him in his comeback fight.
BKSP, the cradle of Shakib, who extended their heartfelt support to its proud cadet, made no procrastination to trim grasses from the field and to activate the bowling machine for him.
His childhood mentors Nazmul Abedeen Fahim and Mohamamd Salahuddin sketched out the plan of his return to cricket. Two others work for him behind the scenes. They are BKSP’s athletic coach Abdullah Hel Kafi, who works for Shakib’s fitness and BKSP’s boxing coach Ariful Karim, who works for him to get his hand’s strength and agility back. Along with them, a physio is working with Shakib.
He was accommodated in the Modhumoti Guesthouse from where he is intensely working. Both Shakib and his supporting coaches are tightlipped about the preparation.
Of course, there is a cause of secrecy about Shakib’s preparation. BCB President Nazmul Hassan Papon in his first press briefing during the corona period told the media not to make more news on Shakib because there is a bar of ICC.
Running at athletics’ track and batting-bowling practice at the BKSP Indoors are his regular routine work. He got down in the field with a bat for the first time yesterday.
He spent six-to-seven years in the alma mater, where he has a lot of sweet memories of his childhood.
Shakib surely writes the new memories in his prowling mind from where he starts his second innings of life.
