Is Mushfiqur Rahim (Mushfiqur Rahim) was forced to retire from T20I cricket? On February 28, the senior Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman led his team Fortune Barisal to the Bangladesh Premier League 2024 (bpl 2024After reaching the finals, everyone wants to know the answer to this question.

However, Mushfiqur Rahim denied that he has any regrets about retiring from T20I cricket, but said that players should be judged by their performance and fitness and not by age, this Find out why the 36-year-old batsman retired from T20I cricket so soon.

I have no regrets: Mushfiqur Rahim

Let us tell you, Mushfiqur Rahim retired from T20I cricket on 4 September 2022 after the Asia Cup 2022 in UAE. Mushfiqur had to face a lot of criticism due to his poor form at that time. At the same time, Mushfiqur helped Fortune Barisal secure a place in the BPL 2024 final by scoring unbeaten 47 runs in 38 balls yesterday, and he is currently the fifth highest run-scorer in BPL 2024 with 367 runs at a strike-rate of 123.56. Are players.

Mushfiqur Rahim was quoted by Cricbuzz: “I have no regrets. Now you are saying this after I have played well, no one has said this before. I just want to ask a question? Did I voluntarily retire from T20I cricket? Just look at the month since I retired and I have nothing more to say. At the beginning of BPL, everyone was saying that Barisal is a team of old people and T20 cricket cannot be played with experience.

“I don’t play to prove anything to anyone.”

But we are here. This thinking is very wrong and experience has value in every format of the game. I am being criticized for my age and I feel bad about it. Even today, if you bring a lot of young players in front of me, I am sure they will not come close to me in terms of fitness.

How do you benchmark fitness, be it age or performance? I believe that age should be considered a mere number and focus should be on fitness and performance, otherwise players like Jimmy Anderson would have been rare. I don’t play to prove anything to anyone and I am grateful to the people who have chosen me, Tamim Iqbal and the owner of Barisal. I want to repay the faith they have put in me with my performance.”