Bangladesh star bowler Mustafizur Rahman has been added to the players' draft of the Abu Dhabi T10 league that will commence in the UAE on November 23.  The left-arm pacer was roped in by Bangla Tigers in the first edition of the event, but he was not allowed to take part in this event by the BCB.  The pacer has been going through a bad patch for a while now. In his last five T20Is, Mustafizur managed to grab only five wickets.  Before Mustafizur, Bangladesh Test and T20 captain Shakib Al Hasan and ODI captain Tamim Iqbal have also been added to the players' draft. Shakib has already signed a contract with Bangla Tigers. Bangladesh batter Aftab Ahmed will coach this team, and cricket analyst and coach Nazmul Abedin Faheem will also work with this team as a consultant. Read: IPL 2022: Delhi’s Mustafizur Rahman eyes to end his wicket drought A total of eight teams will participate in the sixth edition of Abu Dhabi T10.  The Abu Dhabi T10 has been generating huge support for the last few years. The most attractive aspect of this league is it takes only 90 minutes to complete a match. 

The government has appointed Md Mustafizur Rahman as the country's new high commissioner to India.  Ambassador Mustafizur, now permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and ambassador to Switzerland, will replace Muhammad Imran. Mustafizur is a career foreign service officer from the 11th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Foreign Affairs cadre.  In his diplomatic career, he served in Bangladesh missions in Paris, New York, Geneva and Kolkata, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Mustafizur also served as the Bangladesh high commissioner to Singapore.  Read: Career diplomat Muhammad Imran named as Bangladesh ambassador to U At the headquarters, he occupied different positions – namely, at the United Nations Wing. A medical graduate from Sir Salimullah Medical College, Mustafizur obtained a master's degree in public international law from the UK's University of London and a post-graduate diploma from France's International Institute of Public Administration. 

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.

Bangladesh’s left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman was cleared by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday to take part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021.  Mustafizur, who previously played for the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians, will play this season for Rajasthan Royals who roped him in from the auction earlier this year for Rs 1 crore.  Also read: Shakib reaches Kolkata to play IPL A BCB official confirmed UNB that the board has allowed Mustafizur to take part in IPL 2021. It means that the pacer will not be available for the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka. Mustafizur is now the second Bangladeshi player after Shakib Al Hasan who has secured BCB’s permission to play IPL skipping a Test series.  Also read: Six cities to host games as IPL returns to India The pacer got inducted into IPL back in 2016 when he represented Sunrisers Hyderabad. Riding on his tremendous bowling efforts, the Sunrisers won the title that year, and Mustafizur got the award of the emerging player of the season.  However, he was comparatively lean in the field when he played for the Mumbai Indians. 

Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman on Tuesday said he will always prefer playing for the national team over anything if the board selects him.