He is playing his first tournament since suffering serious injuries in a car accident in December 2022 that kept him out of last year's IPL as well as the 50-overs World Cup in India
Mashrafe says he will take the field in BPL as a cricketer, not MP
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has made it clear that he prefers to be known as a cricketer, not as a member of parliament, when he is playing.
Published : 4 Jan 2019, 03:26 PM
Updated : 4 Jan 2019, 03:26 PM
"I'm recognised as a cricketer here. I am taking the field as a cricketer and not as a member of parliament. I hope that you guys will treat me the same way," he said in Dhaka on Friday.
The strapping pacer, known as the ‘Narail Express’ expressed his feelings as a MP a day before the start of the sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League.
This would be his first competitive match after being elected as a public representative from the Narail-2 constituency in Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Mashrafe will captain Rangpur Riders, the defending champions of BPL T20 tournament.
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