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Old October 16, 2012, 10:50 AM
jeesh jeesh is offline
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Thanks Kalpurush.

Continuing the discussion on spinners, the next one is one of the more unfortunate cases. Rather he dug up his own grave. Now the big question is can he do anything to drag himself out of the grave. I am talking abt Mosharraf Hossain-who at the peak of his career decided to ditch the national team to play in ICL.

Nevertheless he has been one of the most consistent spinners in domestic cricket over the years. Was tipped to take over the role of Rafique by the great man himself. See links below. In ways he is very similar to Rafique. Relies heavily on accuracy and flight. Unlike Razzak he will rarely give you a loose ball. This is why he has a good economy rate in T20, ODI's and FC. Picks up wickets too, has 203 FC wickets at an average of 25 with best of 9/105 which is probably the best bowling performance by a Bangladeshi in FC cricket.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesig....php?nid=18297
http://www.banglacricket.com/alochon...ad.php?t=25066

Can he make it into the BD team, will he get a second chance? At the age of 30, i highly doubt it. But if we ever need a mature experienced spinner Mosharraf should be the one. A good BPL and FC season can change his fortunes. One must keep in mind Mohammad Rafique may have been in the team for a long time, but in terms of quality bowling he peaked very late.
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