Left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman sustained a head injury after being struck by a ball during practice. The incident occurred while Mustafizur, representing Comilla Victorians in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), was participating in a practice session at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Sunday (February 18, 2024). While returning to his run-up area during a net session, Mustafizur was hit directly on the left side of his head. He was immediately taken to a hospital in Chattogram. Read: BPL 2024: Chattogram, Barishal inch closer to playoffs  Following a CT scan, the medical team from the Comilla Victorians confirmed that Mustafizur did not sustain an internal head injury. However, he will remain under observation as a precautionary measure. “After (the) CT scan we are satisfied that he had only external injury. There was no intracranial bleeding,” stated S M Zahidul Islam Sazal, the physio of the Victorians.  Read: BPL 2024: West Indies stars Narine, Russell join Comilla Victorians  Sazal further mentioned that Mustafizur received stitches for the open wound. Mustafizur's performance in the BPL has been consistent. In nine matches, he has secured 11 wickets for the reigning BPL champions.

Ahead of the first match of the three-match ODI series between England and Bangladesh, England allrounder Moeen Ali spoke about the threat posed by Bangladesh's left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman. While Mustafizur took one wicket only in two ODIs against England in England, his record of 141 wickets in 82 ODIs with five five-wicket hauls at home shows his skills on home surfaces. Moeen acknowledged Mustafizur's abilities, saying, "We know he is a very good bowler and he is a threat. We also know Bangladesh actually has a very good bowling attack, especially in these conditions." When asked about England's plan to face Mustafizur, Moeen said that they will prepare for all of Bangladesh's bowlers, not just him.  Also Read: Tamim-Shakib Clash: How ready Bangladesh are to face England Moeen also commented on the expected spin on the wicket in Mirpur, stating that England expects good spin bowling but also acknowleded the strength of Bangladesh's seamers. Despite England's recent struggles in ODIs, Moeen expressed confidence in their ability to implement their attacking approach in Mirpur and said that they have a strong group of players.  England has faced Bangladesh in 21 ODIs to date, with Bangladesh winning only four of them. As the current champions of both white-ball World Cups, England will be looking to continue their winning streak in this series, and in contrast, Bangladesh are eying to continue on home dominance.   

Bangladesh posted 137 for 8 wickets against New Zealand in their second match of the ongoing Tri-Series in Christchurch today. Bangladesh made two changes in this match — Mustafizur Rahman and Sabbir Rahman have been overlooked to pave the way for Najmul Hossain Shanto and Shakib Al Hasan. Bangladesh lost the toss and were sent to bat first. Shanto, who was playing his first match in this event replacing Sabbir Rahman, scored 33 off 29 balls while Nurul Hasan Sohan posted 25 off just 12 balls with two sixes.  Bangladesh lost wickets in regular intervals. Mehidy Hasan Miraz, who has been establishing himself as an opener, scored 5 in this match.  Read: Tri-series 3rd T20: Kiwis send Tigers to bat first Afif Hossain posted 24 while Shakib scored 16. The Bangladesh captain, Shakib, made a comeback after the UAE series but his inclusion didn't change the fragile batting approach of Bangladesh. Mosaddek Hossain (2) and Yasir Ali (7) failed to do well this time.  For the hosts, Trent Boult, Tim Southee, Micheal Bracewell and Ish Sodhi bagged two wickets. Before this match, both Bangladesh and New Zealand lost their respective first matches to Pakistan.   

Md Mustafizur Rahman, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations and other offices in Geneva said united efforts are needed to prevent death in drowning across the globe.  He made the remarks while addressing a programme marking World Drowning Prevention Day on July 25. Bangladesh's permanent mission in Geneva and World Health Organization jointly arranged the programme. Read: Resolution adopted seeking equitable access to Covid vaccine Mentioning that 30 children under five years and 40 teenagers under 18 years drown every day on average in Bangladesh Mustafizur Rahman said if effective measures are not taken in this regard, the success of reducing child death will be ruined. Globally, drowning is a significant cause of mortality and is the second leading cause of injury-related death among children and also the third leading cause of accidental death.

The lone warm up match of Bangladesh ahead of the series against the West Indies has ended in a draw. Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Ebadto Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman shone well in this match. Bangladesh batted first in the tour match in Antigua and declared their first innings at 310 for seven. Tamim scored 162, and Najmul hit a fifty for the visitors. In reply, the Cricket West Indies President XI scored 359 for eight in their first innings before declaring. For Bangladesh, right-arm pacer Ebadot and left-arm pacer Mustafizur bagged three wickets each. Also read: Bangladesh vs West Indies Test Series 2022: Major Highlights of the Warm-Up Match It was Mustafizur's first red-ball game after a long break. The pacer last played a competitive cricket match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) last season, which is a white-ball event. In the long tour of West Indies, Bangladesh will take on the hosts in a two-match Test, three-match ODI and three-match T20I series. The first Test of the series will begin on June 16 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua and the second Test will be played at Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia from June 24. While the first two T20Is will be played at Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica on July 2 and 3 respectively, the third T20I and all three ODIs will be played at Providence Stadium, Guyana on July 10, 13 and 16 respectively. Also read: WI v BAN: Ebadot shines with ball in tour match Shakib Al Hasan, the left-handed all-rounder, is set to lead the Tigers in the Test series. He returned to lead the Tigers after Mominul Haque stepped down as the captain. In ODIs, Bangladesh will be led by Tamim, and in T20Is, Mahmudllah Riyad will be the skipper.

Will Jacks of England and Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman have ended the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2022 with the most runs and wickets respectively.  Jacks’ BPL ended in the qualifier while Mustafizur ended up being one of the members of the champions Comilla Victorians. In the final against Barishal, Mustafizur played an important role for the Victorians conceding only six runs in the 19th over.  Read: Comilla Victorians lift BPL title in a thrilling final Jacks scored 414 runs in 11 innings with four fifties with the highest of 92 not out while Mustafizur bagged 19 wickets in 11 matches with the best bowling figure of five wickets conceding 27 runs.  A total of four centuries have been notched up in this BPL, and those were hit by Lindle Simmons, Tamim Iqbal, Andre Fletcher, and Faf du Plessis. The highest innings was 116 by Simmons. And the best bowling was Mustafizur 5 for 27.  There was only one innings in BPL exceeding the 200-run mark. Chattogram Challengers posted 202 against Sylhet Sunrisers in Chattogram.  The biggest win was by 65 runs— Comilla beat Khulna by this margin in Dhaka on February 11.  Read: BPL 2022: Narine, Moeen propel Comilla to 151 in final Top five batters:  Will Jacks, Chattogram Challengers (414 runs), Andre Fletcher, Khulna Tigers (410), Tamim Iqbal, Minister Group Dhaka (407), Colin Ingram, Sylhet Sunrisers (333), and Faf du Plessis, Comilla Victorians (295).  Top five bowlers: Mustafizur Rahman, Comilla Victorians (19 wickets), Dwayne Bravo, Fortune Barishal (18), Shakib Al Hasan, Fortune Barishal (16), Tanvir Islam, Comilla Victorians (16), Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Chattogram Challengers (15).

For the new season of the Indian Premier League, Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman went to Delhi Capital while  other Bangladesh star Shakib Al Hasan remained unsold on day one of the mega IPL auction. In the last edition of IPL, Mustafizur represented Rajasthan Royals. But ahead of the new season, they left him for the auction. Mustafizur’s base price was two crores of Indian Rupees, and he was sold at his base price. Apart from Delhi, no team showed any interest in the left-arm pacer. Also read: Mustafizur finds place in ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year 2021 The Bangladesh pacer played 38 matches in IPL so far after his debut back in 2016 for the Sunrisers Hyderabad. He played a pivotal role that year for the Sunriesres when they became the champions. Mustafizur will have his former teammate David Warner in Delhi. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting will coach this team in the IPL. In the last edition of IPL, Shakib represented Kolkata Knight Riders who did not show any interest in the allrounder this time. It came as a surprise that no other team showed any interest in him. Shakib played 71 matches in IPL and bagged 63 wickets and scored 793 runs. Also read: BPL 2022: Shakib Sets New Record as Fortune Barishal Secure Top Two

Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman found a place in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year 2021, ICC revealed on Wednesday.  Mustafizur is the only Bangladeshi cricketer to find a place in this team.  Read:Tait sees a great future for Bangladesh pacers The Bangladesh left-arm seamer again ruled the roost in T20I cricket in 2021 with his clever variations and change of pace. Lethal upfront and at the death, he scalped 28 wickets in 20 matches at an average of 17.39. He also proved tough for the batters to get away as proven by his economy of 7.00, the ICC statement reads.  The other pacers of the team are Josh Hazlewood of Australia and Shaheen Afridi of Pakistan.  Two more Pakistanis found a place each in this team— Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam. While Rizwan was selected as an opener, Babar was designated the captain of this team. The other Asian player in this team is Wanindu Hasaranga. It means, there is no player in this team from India.  Like Pakistan, South Africa also have three players in this team— Tabriz Shamsi, David Miller and Aiden Markram. Along with Hazlewood, Australia also have Mitchel Marsh.  Read:BPL 2022: Most Impactful Foreign Players from Six Teams As the only Englishman, Jos Buttler found a place in ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year 2021.  Like India, no New Zealand player was selected for this team.  ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year 2021:  Jos Buttler, Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Aiden Markram, Mitchel Marsh, David Miller, Tabriz Shamsi, Josh Hazlewood, Wanindu Hasranga, Mustafizur Rahman and Shaheen Afridi. 

Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and pacer Mustafizur Rahman are set to leave their IPL teams – Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals – to join the national side ahead of the T20 World Cup. The Tigers are now in Oman, and they were scheduled to travel to the UAE Saturday to play two warm-up matches against Sri Lanka and Ireland. However, the fixture has been changed, and the national team will travel to the UAE Sunday. In this season of IPL, Shakib played only five matches and scored 38 runs, and bagged five wickets while Mustafiz played 14 matches and scalped as many wickets. Read: IPL 2021: Who will play whom in the playoffs? Mustafiz's Rajasthan ended their IPL campaign as the seventh team, winning only five out of 14 matches. Shakib's Kolkata managed to secure a play-off place. They will now play Rajasthan Royals in an eliminator match on October 11. On Friday, the Tigers played a practice match in Oman against the Oman A team and won the match by 60 runs. Read: IPL 2021: Delhi secure Qualifier 1 with 3-wicket win against Chennai Bangladesh will travel back to the Gulf state on October 15 to take part in the first round of the World Cup, which will begin on October 17. In this round, Bangladesh will take on Scotland, Oman and Papua New Guinea.

Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman left for Dubai early on Tuesday morning to play the remaining leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The left-arm pacer is representing Rajasthan Royals in this year’s multi-million dollar cricketing tournament. Read:Nasum, Mustafiz take four each as NZ tumble for 93 Mustafizur was scheduled to depart for Dubai on Sunday night but due to some visa issues, he had to wait for one more day. His wife will accompany him during the IPL.  This year's IPL was deferred due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the players' bio-bubble, following which both Mustafizur and Shakib Al Hasan had to return home on a chartered flight. Mustafizur has played seven matches so far in this year’s IPL and bagged eight wickets with the best figures of three wickets for 20 runs. Of the seven matches they have played, Rajasthan won three, and they will start the remainder of the league being at five on the points table. Delhi Capitals are leading the table with 12 points from six wins in eight matches.  Read: Shoriful enjoys his partnership with Mustafiz Another Bangladeshi star Shakib is playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders in this IPL. He has played three matches so far and taken two wickets and scored 38 runs.  He was sidelined in the last four matches of Kolkata, who are currently at seven on the points table with only two wins in seven matches.