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Mashrafe Mortaza is very impressed with how his young bower Mustafizur Rahman has carried himself after having a sensational first season in international Cricket.

According to Mortaza, the name and fame has not got Mustafizur fascinated at all and he is just enjoying his game.

The rookie left arm seam bowler destroyed the powerful batting line ups of India and South Africa on the home pitches in back-to-back One Day International series in 2015.

His exploits brought him in the limelight in the Cricketing world as he even managed to earn a contract in the Indian Premier League.

Mustafizur’s slower balls and cutters which he disguised with expertise caught a lot of accomplished players in awkward positions.

Most of the wickets that he got were the soft dismissals and that’s because the batsmen were finding it almost impossible to pick his variations.

However, as nobody had played him at that time, it all came as an element of surprise, but, it would be slightly tougher for Mustafizur from here onwards as the batsmen would be better prepared to take him on. Continue reading “Mashrafe Mortaza is very impressed with how his young bower Mustafizur Rahman”

Brian Lara has failed to entertain in the two All Stars games that he has played so far.

He has gotten out cheaply both times and that against the spinners.

Those people who followed Lara’s international career would know how good a player of spin he was. He had the capability to pummel even the best of spinners on the turning tracks.

But, playing in USA, he doesn’t seem to still have got that in him.

He showed a slight glimpse in the second game though when he danced down the track to a nicely lopped delivery and whacked it straight down the ground for a one bounce four, but, soon after that, he was taken down as Andrew Symonds, the former Aussie part time spinner, beat him in the air and got one past him to knock him over at a score of 19.

It was a shot which was bread and butter for Lara when he was on his roll, the loft over the spinner’s head. He was such an expert at that, but, not anymore. Even somebody like Andrew Symonds was good enough to outfox him.

In the first All-Stars game too which was played in New York, Lara had been dismissed on a shot which he would never fault at during his playing days, that is the sweep shot. Continue reading “Brian Lara has failed to entertain in the two All Stars”