If there is a game of Bangladesh national cricket team, the cricket lovers of the country are naturally busy with them. Therefore, very few cricket lovers keep track of where the cricketers outside the national team are doing.
The current situation is much like that. Bangladesh team went on tour to India. Nazmul-Mushfique-Miraj will play the second and final Test of the series in Kanpur tomorrow after losing the first Test by a huge margin in Chennai.
On the other hand, Enamul Haque and Sabbir Rahman, two cricketers who are out of the national team, have gone to Zimbabwe to play Jim Afro T-10. Enamul-Sabbir's team has already played 5 matches in that tournament. However, their performance with the bat is not so promising.
Enamul got some runs in the last 2 matches for Bulawayo Brave Jaguars, while Sabbir failed to bat twice for Harare Bolts and was dropped from the team.
Enamul played the last match for Bangladesh in March this year in the Jim Afro T-10 League, so far he has scored 56 runs from 35 balls in 5 matches, with a strike rate of 160. In the same tournament, Sabbir managed to score only 3 runs in 5 balls in 2 matches, with a strike rate of 60. This middle order batsman, who last played in the national team in October 2022, can be called unlucky. He was run out in both matches.
Enamul failed in the first 2 matches for Bulawayo. After taking 1 run from 2 balls against NYS Lagos, he took 4 from 4 balls against Cape Town Samp Army. As a result, against Durban Wolves, he was removed from the opener and played in the middle order. Couldn't do well in that match too, scored 5 runs off 7 balls. However, Enamul gave a 'cameo' of 22 runs off 6 balls against Sabbir's Harar.
Due to that innings, Enamul was brought back to open again in last night's match. Enamul will open the innings with former Australian opener David Warner tomorrow against the Bangladeshi-owned franchise Joburg Bangla Tigers. Although Warner was dismissed in the first over, this Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman scored 24 runs off 16 balls.
The first season of Jim Afro T-10 League was held last year. Mushfiqur Rahim and Taskin Ahmed played from Sebar Bangladesh. Both of them are currently in Kanpur with the Bangladesh team.