Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny are set to undergo an action
reassessment test in Brisbane, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced on
Saturday (August 20). The Bangladesh bowlers were banned by the
International Cricket Council during the World Twenty20 in India earlier
this year for possessing bowling actions that flouted the permissible
15-degree flexion limit.
"This is a burden for me. Just like
anyone else, I would also like to return to international cricket
quickly. If the word 'banned' is removed from my life, it would be like
every day is Eid day," Taskin said.
Taskin acknowledged he is a
bit nervous ahead of the test. "I'm thinking about the test while eating
and sleeping," he said. "I feel the same way as one would while hearing
the date of the school final exams. You keep preparing, but when you
hear the date, you get a little nervous. But I'm happy that a date has
been fixed. I am preparing both mentally and physically through my
skills.
"Experts at home are satisfied with my bowling action. I
am also satisfied. But since it is a test, even one problem found in a
delivery can be a major issue. I am training hard and the rest is up to
god."
Jalal Yunus, the BCB director, was confident that the
bowlers will be cleared ahead of England's tour of Bangladesh. "Taskin
will give the test on the eighth of September in Brisbane. We are very
positive about his case," he said.
"Arafat Sunny has been working
with our head coach Chandika Hathurusingha and (Venkatapathy) Raju and
they are both relatively satisfied with his action. He has to go through
some more work. But overall the management feels that his action will
be good enough by next month and that he too can go along with Taskin in
the first week of next month."
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