Taskin hopes to recover from back pain ahead of Afghanistan series

Bangladesh's Taskin Ahmed celebrates New Zealand's Martin Guptill being caught during the 1st cricket ODI match between New Zealand and Bangladesh at University Oval in Dunedin on 20 March 2021AFP file photo

Bangladesh speedster Taskin Ahmed hoped to back in the national fold during the white balls series against Afghanistan, recovering from his back pain fully, reports BSS.

Afghanistan will land in Bangladesh around 10.00pm, instead of scheduled 5.00pm on Sunday. They will play three ODIs, which are part of the ICC ODI Super League and two T20I matches against Bangladesh.

Taskin said as the pain was subsided, he started bowling with an aim to play the Afghanistan series.

“After a bowling session today, I got some confidence since I felt no pain,” Taskin said here today.

“Hopefully there will be no problem to play the Afghanistan series. I will do some more sessions and hope that my confidence will continue to be boosted after every bowling session. I believe I will be fully fit ahead of the Afghanistan series.”

Taskin was playing for Chattogram Challengers in the ongoing BPL and looked to be in his supreme form. He in fact has been in form for the last one year and had already established him as a match winner of Bangladesh.

But the back pain during a game of BPL spoiled his smooth journey. However he didn’t feel that the time off from the game due to the injury would hamper his bowling rhythm.

“Hopefully I can bowl with same rhythm as I had done before the injury,” he remarked.

Taskin is one of the five players of Bangladesh to be in IPL auction but he said he is not thinking about that, rather he is considering to how he would keep him fully fit and play all matches for the country across three formats.

“I am not losing my sleeping thinking about IPL. If I get a team, it would be great but if not, there will be no regret. Moreover we have some Test matches and some important ODI and T20I matches coming up. I am only focusing on those matches and play for my country,” he concluded.