Individual Training Sessions resumes in cautious manner after a five-day halt
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Individual Training Sessions (ITC) yet another has resumed in gingerly fashion at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur after a five-day halt.
Cricketers have used different dressing rooms during their scheduled training sessions of the SBNCS, dubbed ‘Home of Cricket’ in Bangladesh.
All-rounder Mahmudullah opened the roaster on the opening day at 9:00am. Wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim then appeared on the ground at 10:00am. Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam bowled them at the center wickets of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.
All-rounder Soumya Sarkar and opening batsman Tamim Iqbal turned out the stadium followed them in the second row at 11am and 12pm correspondingly. Pacers Mustafizur Rahman and Shafiul Islam bowled against the duo.
However, Mohammad Mithun and Shadman Islam Anik came at the session to have their practice, where pacers Rubel Hossain and Taskin Ahmed bowled them in third row.
Liton Kumar Das and Imrul Kayes came in the fourth row at 3pm and 4pm. Mehedi Hasan Rana and Aminul Islam Biplob bowled against them.
Later, Test captain Mominul Haque, who missed the last phase of training due to his injury, and wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan Sohan along with Mehidy Hasan Miraj joined their respective sessions.
A string of the women’s team players also took part in the training sessions.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) took a stiff security measure as a precautionary measure to make it successful. As a part of precaution, the BCB-appointed security personnel didn’t allow anybody in the stadium area without the designated officials.
Noteworthy, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) halted cricketers’ ongoing individual training session for five days after being detected corona-like symptoms among three of its supporting staff.
To avert health hazard and no more infection in practice prior to the upcoming Sri Lanka tour, the BCB suspended the players’ ongoing individual training sessions at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur since last Friday.
Initially, the BCB stopped the practice sessions for three days. Later they extended it to five days from three days with two more days adding in the roaster.
Many cricketers, their numerous fans and supporters were raring to know about the current state of the board. Cricketers can take the field again or the board will suspend it further. But it is cheering news for all that Mushfiq-Tamim can resume their practice from Wednesday after being stopped for the last five days.
The BCB gave their approval to resume the individual training at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium and its National Cricket Academy coupled with its Indoors in Mirpur.
“We are giving our approval to cricketers to resume their training from Wednesday. So, it will be started again after five days. The interested players can continue their training if they wish,” said BCB director and its Cricket Operations Chairman Akram Khan.
Later Akram added a clause, under which those players who have been tested negative for corona will be eligible to start their training from Wednesday.
On Monday, the sample of the coronavirus had been collected from 17 cricketers’ homes. Those players will be eligible to resume practice again whose corona test’s result will become negative. Those who gave their sample for the corona test have to wait for corona negative on Wednesday.
BCB Chief Physician Dr Debashish Chowdhury said the corona negative will have no bar to resume practice from Wednesday.
“There is no chance of holding practice for the players whose result in the corona test will come positive. But those whose result will come negative will have no bar to resume practice from Wednesday,” Dr Debashish said.
“We’ll keep corona positive players under our intensive observation. We’ll test them again after a certain period. Their future will depend on the next test,” Chowdhury told Cricfrenzy.com.
