A fractured thumb has pressured Mushfiqur Rahim to drag out of Bangladesh’s two-match Test series against Sri Lanka that will get underway on Friday in Sylhet. Bangladesh physio Bayjedul Islam Khan has confirmed that Mushfiqur would require at the least three weeks to get better from the fracture.
The 36-year-old suffered the harm throughout the second over of the third ODI against Sri Lanka on Monday. He was struck by a Taskin Ahmed supply on his proper thumb and instantly clutched his hand in ache. The workforce physio labored on him for a bit earlier than Mushfiqur resumed his wicketkeeping duties and later performed a match-winning unbeaten 37 within the 236-run chase for Bangladesh.
“After the match, Mushfiqur underwent an X-ray examination in Dhaka, which revealed an avulsion fracture on the MIP joint of his proper thumb. He’s presently present process conservative administration for his harm and is anticipated to be sidelined for round three to 4 weeks, consequently ruling him out of participation within the Test series against Sri Lanka,” Bayjedul stated.
Mushfiqur’s exit is a extreme blow to the Bangladesh batting line-up. He has performed 88 Assessments – probably the most for any Bangladesh participant – and has scored 5676 runs at a median of 38.09. Mushfiqur was additionally in wonderful kind within the ODI series ending as Bangladesh’s second-highest run-scorer behind Najmul Hossain Shanto.
The Bangladesh selectors are but to announce Mushfiqur’s substitute however they do not precisely have loads of decisions with correct red-ball expertise. Those who may very well be thought-about are Soumya Sarkar, Towhid Hridoy or Tanzid Hasan, whereas Jaker Ali and Anamul Haque are additionally contemporary from the ODI aspect. One other alternative may very well be 37-year-old Naeem Islam, who performed the final of his eight Assessments in 2012. Naeem has been in good red-ball kind lately ending the BCL 2023-24 because the main run-scorer and the NCL 2023-24 because the joint second-highest run-getter.
Bangladesh will play the primary of the 2 Assessments against Sri Lanka in Sylhet earlier than travelling to Chattogram for the second Test that will get underway on March 30. Sri Lanka received the T20I series 2-1 earlier than Bangladesh bounced again to take the ODI leg by the identical margin.
