Rishad Hossain would have become the owner of the fastest half-century in Bangladesh’s ODI history if luck had helped and senior partner Mushfiqur Rahim had helped. A legspinner come late order played an unbeaten innings of 48 runs in 18 balls and 4 sixes against Sri Lanka at Chittagong’s Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Monday.
Bangladesh was then 3 runs away from victory. Rishad needs only 2 runs to reach his fifty. Bangladesh won 58 balls before Mushfiqur Rahim glided to third man for a boundary off Lankan off-spinner Thikshanar. As a result Rishad’s fifty was no longer available.
Rishad can play with open hands. Among his contemporaries who bat lower, Rishad is the best hard hitter. He can effortlessly slog and hit sixes when he gets under his bat; Not only today, Rishad also showed in the T20 series.
Chasing 175 in the second T20 of the series, Bangladesh lost 6 wickets for 32 runs. Rishad Hossain, standing on the edge of that gap and dropping to number 8, played a stormy innings of 53 runs from 30 balls and took the team to 146. 42 of those 53 runs came from sixes only. Rishad showed his hard hitting ability by hitting 7 huge sixes.
Meanwhile, since he is not in the Test team, Rishad will play the Dhaka Club Cricket Premier League from the day after tomorrow. Abahani fans are hoping to see Rishad’s legspin as well as Jhoro Willobaji.
But now the news is different. Not Abahani, Rishad will play for Shinepukur in this Premier League. Inside news, Abahani has allowed Rishad to play in Shinepool in a compromise.
Why leave an all-rounder like Rishad voluntarily? Abahani’s head coach Khaled Mahmud Sujan said in a private talk with Jago News on Monday afternoon, ‘There is very little chance of Rishad getting a place in Abahani’s XI. We have a bunch of players. Despite having an average of 7-8 cricketers in the T20 and ODI squads with Sri Lanka, we have to struggle to form the team. Lots of players in the squad. So it would have been difficult to give Rishad a place in the XI. But we want Rishad to play regularly. So I gave him to shine pond.’
Incidentally, the national team’s 3 frontline pacers Taskin Ahmed, Shariful Islam and Tanjim Hasan Shakib are now in Abahani. Apart from this, there are three other specialist spinners Rakibul Hasan, Tanveer Islam and Nahidul Islam in Abahani.
Liton Das, Enamul Haque Vijay, Naeem Sheikh, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Afif Hossain Dhrub, Zaker Ali Anik, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat are in the batter quota.
Apart from this, the team of all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin and Test pacer Khaled Ahmed and Nahid Rana is also in Abahani. It is difficult to get regular opportunities between such well-known, renowned and well-established performers. So Abahani coach Khaled Mahmud Sujan’s decision to release Rishad.
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