India's Shashi Tharoor hails Bangladesh's ‘philosopher-captain’ Mashrafe

Indian politician Shashi Tharoor has hailed Bangladesh captain Mashrafe-bin Mortaza’s perspective on cricket in a tweet, calling him a ‘philosopher-captain’.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 19 June 2017, 12:09 PM
Updated : 19 June 2017, 12:26 PM

“A brilliantly sane perspective on cricket from Bangladesh's philosopher-captain Mashrafe @IamMortaza. Applaud the real heroes, enjoy the game,” he tweeted on Sunday, posting a photo of Mashrafe inscribing his comments.

“The labourers are the stars, they build the country. What have we built using cricket? Does Paddy grow on the cricket field? Those who make courtyards using bricks, make things at factories, grow crops in the fields – they are the stars” – are some of the recent comments of Mashrafe who is a popular captain in Bangladesh.

At least 1.4 thousand retweeted Tharoor’s tweet as of 5.30pm on Monday, while 3.4 thousand liked it. Some 117 commented on the post.

One ‘Aneesh Chand’ commented: “he is a very nice person really. the way he conducts himself during toss and conferences is very telling. always respectful”.

One ‘S L Mehra’ replied: “God bless Captain @IamMortaza for his high thinking. If this approach is adopted much of hatred in this subcontinent will take a back seat”.

Tharoor is a congress party MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.

He was earlier a state minister for external affairs and human resource development when his party was in power.

Tharoor is also an acclaimed writer, a globally recognised speaker on India’s economics and politics, human rights, culture and international affairs.