Mominul Eyeing To Seize His Opportunity in Riders Camp

Title contenders Bangladesh Premier League franchise Rangpur Riders signed Bangladesh ‘Test Specialist’ Mominul Haque at the midst of the tournament. 

Rangpur, who took the opportunity of the BPL rules of recruiting players from the draft at any time of the tournament, confirmed it on Thursday. 

The reason behind recruiting Mominul is to get a dependable top order player who can hold together the innings as Rangpur’s top order looked weakened after Babar Azam’s departure. 

Babar played a vital role for the team as he not only opened the innings, but also gave the side stability by his quality batting on slow wicket.

“I always believe that the rizq is in the hands of Allah.They are playing here.I am not being picked even though I am a good player.There is nothing to regret about it.I believe You will do your work,I will do mine and the Almighthy will take care of the rest.I will get my chances after I do my work.Bangladesh cricket is such that you will always get a chance.What is important is to cash-in on the opportunities,” Mominul told reporters at home of cricket on Thursday.

Brandon King and Rony Talukdar so far partnered with former Pakistan captain Babar in opening the innings. Rony of late hit back to form but King’s form is still worrisome.

Mominul played the last BPL for Comilla Victorians in 2021-2022. He played just four matches in that edition but there was no taker for him in the last season.

Despite not being regular in BPL, Mominul remains the 16th highest run-getter in the tournament by scoring 1364 runs in 71 innings of 82 matches.

His strike rate is 107.48, which is poor by T20 standard but if it is compared to the strike rate of other Bangladeshi batters, it won’t look that poor.