Bangladesh's shocking decision (Photo-Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Bangladesh cricket team has added a former player to its coaching staff who had brought bad name to his country by match fixing. That player was liked by big legends, the whole of Bangladesh considered him as their idol but that player ruined his career by match fixing. We are talking about Mohammad Ashraful, whom Bangladesh cricket team has appointed as its batting coach for the home series against Ireland. Ashraful was made the batting coach after the BCB meeting held on Monday. Apart from Ashraful, former selector and left-arm spinner Abdur Razzaq has been made the team director for the Ireland series.
Abdur Razzaq gave the reason behind why Mohammad Ashraful was made the batting coach. Razzaq told that Ashraful has a lot of experience in opening, due to which he has been made the batting coach. Razzaq told the media, 'Ashraful has experience, he has already completed coaching courses, and his experience proved to be important for us in this role.' tell me bangladesh There will be two Test and three T20 matches between India and Ireland. The tour will start on November 11 in Sylhet, while the second match will be held on November 19 in Mirpur.
Let us now tell you how Mohammad Ashraful was implicated in match fixing case. Mohammad Ashraful was involved in spot fixing case in Bangladesh Premier League. Ashraful took money from bookmakers during BPL 2013 and deliberately played bad shots in some overs and influenced the outcome of the match. Ashraful admitted his mistake during the investigation and in 2014, he was found guilty in the BCB investigation. Ashraful was banned for 8 years, later it was reduced to five years.
Ashraful played 61 test matches for Bangladesh, in which he has 6 centuries to his name. He played 177 ODI matches, in which he scored 3468 runs. He had scored 3 centuries and 20 half-centuries. Talking about his professional career, this player scored a total of 33 centuries and scored more than 16 thousand runs from his bat.
