Will IPL miss Shakib?

An IPL without Shakib, Mostafiz by cricketix

In 2019 IPL, Shakib Al Hasan did not get regular opportunity in Sunrisers Hyderabad XI. He had to sit with his arms and legs folded in most of the matches. But off the field the left-arm all-rounder kept himself busy with other work. He has prepared himself for the World Cup by flying old coach Mohammad Salauddin from Dhaka to India. The great performance of the World Cup has shown how much that preparation has helped him. During the World Cup, the Hyderabad authorities thought for sure, Shakib can not be kept this time!

This time Shakib has to literally become a spectator in IPL. Left-arm all-rounder is out of cricket due to ICC ban. However, there is little doubt that Hyderabad will miss Shakib very much this time. In an analysis two days ago, commentator Hersha Vogle said, "This could have been Shakib Al Hasan's tournament."

Shakib has been playing in IPL since 2011. Only in 2013 the tournament was not played because of the series of Bangladesh team. He played his first six seasons in the IPL for Kolkata Knight Riders. He played for Hyderabad in 2016 and 2019. Shakib, who has scored 747 runs and taken 59 wickets in 63 matches in the IPL, is not only important as a player, but his presence also plays an important role in increasing the commercial importance of the franchise. The presence of Shakib, the biggest advertisement of Bangladesh in the IPL, means that millions of viewers of the Bengali delta are watching the IPL with keen eyes.

Just Shakib? Another name of the last four years has increased the attention of Bangladeshi spectators towards IPL - Mostafizur Rahman. The left-arm pacer who bowled brilliantly for Hyderabad in the 2018 IPL, why only in Bangladesh; That caused a stir in the whole cricket world. No matter what, Mostafiz's bowling played an important role in Hyderabad's title win. The Bangladesh fast bowler won the award for the best emerging cricketer of the Seba tournament. Mostafiz is not fluent in English, so Hyderabad coach Tom Moody and captain David Warner tweeted about him in Bengali!

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In the last four years, Shakib and Mostafiz mean APL to the spectators of Bangladesh. When is the game of two stars, when is that Bangladeshi viewer looking for in the schedule. In the evening, pedestrians stood in front of the TV show room and watched the two-star match. Seeing this interest of the viewers of Bangladesh, Shakib-Mostafiz has been used regularly in social media or in various campaigns by their franchise. The popularity of these two Bangladeshi players was also speculated during the tour of India last November. Whenever Bangladeshi journalists see Shakib, the Indian audience is very interested in him. Wanted to know about Mostafiz's recent form. Indian journalists also had questions about the two players in most of the press conferences of the Bangladesh team.

The last auction of IPL was Bangladesh free. Though there were rumors about Mushfiqur Rahim getting a chance, it quickly went viral. This time Shakib is not available, he said. However, at least three franchises have tried to get Mostafiz, Rajasthan Royals on March 8 and Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders just before the tournament. Mumbai wanted Lasith Malinga as an alternative. And Kolkata wanted to replace left-arm English fast bowler Harry Garni. But the BCB did not want to leave Fiji thinking it would be a tour of Sri Lanka.

Although Shakib-Mostafiz are the two biggest advertisements of Bangladesh in IPL from 2016, Mashrafe bin Murtaza took the storm at the beginning of the most popular franchise based T20 tournament in India. The storm, however, was confined to the auction room. In 2009, Juhi Chawla, one of the owners of Kolkata Knight Riders, and Preity Zinta, the owner of Kings XI Punjab, had a falling out with him. At that time, the media in Bangladesh called the fight 'Battle of Bollywood.'

Mashrafe signed up for Kolkata Knight Riders for ৬ 600,000 in Bangladeshi currency and Rs 4 crore in Bangladeshi currency. Which is the highest bid of any Bangladeshi cricketer in the IPL auction so far. With this interest, Mashrafe himself went to play in the IPL with high hopes. But the higher the expectations, the worse his IPL experience was. Abdur Razzak got a chance to play for Bangalore in the first IPL. Like Mashrafe, his IPL experience has been limited to one match. Mohammad Ashraful, who played in 2009 IPL, also failed to meet the expectations, scoring 2 runs in 1 match. He did not have another chance in the IPL. In 2012, Pune Warriors did not give Tamim Iqbal a chance to play in a single match.

In this epidemic, IPL is now the biggest cricket-entertainment, where all the big stars of the cricket world will come together. If Bangladeshi spectators are interested in this tournament, then why not miss their players IPL!