I believe that Khaled Mahmud would volunteerly announce his FINAL retirement. And this time, his decision will be FINAL.
Because, the next tour, in West Indies, we won't play 2 seamer-allrounders, in Asia Cup, Sri Lanka's pitches will favor spinners, so we won't play 2 seamer-allrounders, in the next Sri Lanka, New Zealand and India tour of Bangladesh, we won't have pitches like Zimbabwe.
So this 5th ODI match will probably be his last ever ODI match.
Ofcourse, if we had not won the 3rd ODI, then I would have insisted on letting Khaled Mahmud to play on, but since I've seen how well Ashraful can play in the last ten overs, so there's really no need for Sujon to continue; as our need for a lower order hard hitting batsman has finished.
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