Delhi Capitals’ left-arm tempo bowler, Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman, has stated that he’ll quickly communicate to his nation’s cricket board bosses and clear the air concerning not enjoying red-ball cricket for the nation, including that he’s doing so to extend his worldwide profession.  The 26-year-old stated that he desires to serve Bangladesh cricket for a lot of extra years to return, and that to stay wholesome and match, he should choose and select his video games.

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“For me staying healthy is important. If I want to give my services to the Bangladesh team for a long time, then staying fit is important and to remain fit I feel the best way is to pick and choose between three formats,” he stated.

Mustafizur has opted out of a number of Test matches of late, elevating doubts that he’s planning to stop the longest format.

But talking to Bengali each day Ajker Patrika, Mustafizur stated, “I will clear my position regarding playing Test cricket to Bangladesh Cricket Board if they want to know about it.”

He final performed a Test match for Bangladesh in February 2021 in a house collection in opposition to South Africa. Mustafizur then opted out of a red-ball contract after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) determined to introduce format-wise contracts. Subsequently, he has missed the one-off Test in opposition to Zimbabwe and two-match collection in opposition to Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa and hypothesis is rife that he won’t play the longest format once more.

“What I see is that my seniors spoke with the BCB president (regarding playing and not playing certain formats) and I will also talk with the board president… although he is well aware about the whole situation. BCB never forced me in this regard (playing Test cricket) and I don’t have a red-ball contract,” stated Mustafizur.

“I chose my format taking my success into consideration and according to records my success in T20s and ODIs is more and that is the reason I am focusing on these two formats. In the world, a lot of cricketers are choosing formats to prolong their careers. A team cannot be formed depending on one specific player,” he opined.

Mustafizur additionally believes that his availability is not going to bolster the Bangladesh bowling unit in Test cricket and the administration ought to deal with constructing separate models for white-ball and red-ball cricket with a view to handle the workload, in keeping with ICC.

“Instead of thinking that my availability will bolster the strength of the pace unit, if we think that we need separate pace bowling units for the red and white ball formats, I feel in that case the workload can be managed as it will be balanced and pace bowlers will do well consistently.”

In his worldwide profession, Mustafizur has performed 14 Test matches and brought 30 wickets. He has additionally performed 74 ODIs and 63 T20Is, selecting up 131 and 87 wickets respectively.

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