Tigers reach Cape Town
The Bangladesh team took a roundabout route to Cape Town yesterday, taking a flight from Kimberley --where they lost the first ODI against South Africa by 10 wickets on Sunday -- to Cape Town via a stopover in Johannesburg. The team reached a rainy Cape Town under an injury gloom at around 3:30pm yesterday. The second ODI will take place tomorrow in Paarl's Boland Park -- a 40-minute drive from Cape Town.
Bangladesh will be without pace spearhead Mustafizur Rahman for the rest of the ODI series and very likely for the rest of the tour, which also includes the two-match T20I series after the three-match ODI series. Mustafizur had twisted his ankle badly while warming up the day before the first ODI.
"We will make an appointment with the doctor tomorrow and then do the scan," informed Minhajul Abedin, chief selector and manager for this tour yesterday. That Mustafizur is set to miss the rest of the tour was made almost clear as his replacement has been settled upon.
"Shafiul will be his replacement," Minhajul said. "We are deciding whether he will come for the ODIs of the T20Is."
The tour has been an accursed one for Bangladesh as far as injuries are concerned. Opener Tamim Iqbal is yet to fully recover from a thigh muscle tear sustained earlier this tour. Mushfiqur Rahim, who scored a century in the otherwise bleak first ODI, tweaked a hamstring and although Minhajul said on Sunday that it was not serious, his condition is not as yet certain. More will be known when he takes part in the team's practice session this afternoon.
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