Celebrations form an integral part of the game. It is the
result of something good that has happened in a game for a specific side. A lot
of players have a celebration style of their own—and Bangladesh’s Nazmul
Hossain Apu has rocked the Bangladeshi cricket fraternity with his celebration approach.
The slow-left arm bowler had a good outing in the Bangladesh
Premier League, where he fully employed his snake celebration after getting a
wicket. When asked about his inspiration behind the celebration, he named Darren
Sammy and said that the West Indians’ words resulted in the celebration.
“When I was playing with Darren Sammy for Rajshahi last time
[in the BPL], he claimed that spinners are like snakes,” he told Ekattor TV.
“And that’s when it hit me that he is right, that I have to
attack after seeing the movement of a batsman, like a snake.
“To do that, however, I knew that I had to bowl well—and
ultimately, that’s where the celebration came from. So whenever I get a wicket
now, I do this celebration.”
Apu then recalled a moment he had with Mashrafe’s daughter,
who is apparently a fan of his celebration and does that every time Hossain
gets a wicket.
“I enjoy it [the celebration]. One day, while going to a
hotel after finishing a match, Mashrafe bhai’s daughter Humaira told me that ‘uncle,
I like your celebration and whenever you come to bowl, I imitate your snake
celebration and strike everybody with it when you get a wicket.”
Finally, Nazmul Hossain, who was seen doing the celebration
with Chris Gayle in the dressing room, revealed that the big West Indian, too,
loved the celebration style.
“Whenever I got a wicket [for Rangpur], the big man [Chris
Gayle] always ran towards me and tried to do the celebration before I could
while also shouting ‘my snake, my snake!’
Nazmul Hossain Apu is among the 32-man probable list and
will hope that he is selected in the final squad, where he would be able to do
the celebration on an international level.