Shakib Al Hasan quits Sri Lanka Tests to play IPL
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| Shakib Al Hasan quits Sri Lanka Tests to play IPL |
Shakib Al Hasan will skirt the impending two-Test arrangement versus Sri Lanka in April to make himself accessible for the whole of the IPL 2021 season. Bangladesh Cricket Board's cricket activity administrator Akram Khan affirmed the advancement to Cricbuzz on Thursday (February 18) adding that the load up has allowed him the leave. The star all-rounder is required to be accessible in the three-coordinate ODI arrangement that goes before the Test, subject to demonstrating his wellness.
Shakib got back to the IPL following a one-year boycott with Kolkata Knight Riders marking him for INR 3.2 crores at the sale. Shakib has recently played for the Knight Riders somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2017 and was a basic individual from their title-winning sides of 2012 and 2014.
"He (Shakib) had as of late given us a letter [asking] to avoid the Test arrangement against Sri Lanka as he needed to participate in the IPL," Akram told Cricbuzz. "We have given him the authorization as there is no point pushing somebody who isn't intrigued to play (Test for the public group)," he said.
This will be the second worldwide task that the 33-year-old will miss having been conceded paternity leave to avoid the white-ball visit through New Zealand later in February-March.
Shakib got back to global activity after his boycott in the home arrangement against West Indies prior to supporting a thigh strain in the initial Test, which at last administered him out of the arrangement. Preceding that, he'd made a splendid rebound in the ODI leg and was declared man of the arrangement.
BCB is hoping to play the deferred visit through Sri Lanka in April after numerous endeavors to lead the arrangement fell through in the pandemic-struck 2020.
This isn't the first run through Shakib is avoiding a Test arrangement. He had chosen to require a six-month break from the configuration in September 2017 to deal with his responsibility. He is additionally by all account not the only cricketer to pick IPL over public obligations with England liable to not remember its players playing in IPL Playoffs for the home arrangement against New Zealand.