Mushfiqur Rahim
Bangladesh stalwart Mushfiqur Rahim on Saturday said he was not disheartened after getting snubbed at the recent Indian Premier League auction and claimed to have moved on from the rejection.
‘Things like this either happen or they don’t, it doesn’t bother me too much,’ Mushfiq told reporters in Chattogram.
‘I had some hope but it didn’t happen. Life moves on. The BPL [Bangladesh Premier League] is going on right now. I only want to concentrate on BPL right now,’ he added.
Mushfiq was one of two Bangladeshi players, other being pacer Mustafizur Rahman, who were put under the hammer for the 13th IPL in Kolkata on December 19 but both remained unsold.
Mushfiq’s unsold status surprised a few as the player was earlier requested by the IPL authority to keep his name in the auction list because a franchise had showed interest on him.
The 32-year old, who now has been rejected in all 13 IPL auctions according to Indian cricket website Cricbuzz, had some hope of getting his maiden IPL call-up but that wasn’t to be.
‘To be honest, I didn’t want to send my name at first. Because I thought no one is going to pick me. So there was no point in keeping my name there. But when they sent in the request, I thought there may be some chance this time,’ he said.
The name of the franchise who requested to put his name in the list was still unknown to Mushfiq.
‘I don’t know a lot about it. I got to know from [media] about which franchises might be interested. I don’t know anything other than that,’ Mushfiq said.
Source: New Age.
