Bangladesh PM promises new home for teenage prodigy Mehedi Hasan
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s teenage spin prodigy Mehedi Hasan is to have a new home built for him on a orders of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after his match-winning heroics in a ancestral Test feat over England.
The 19-year-old off-spinner took 12 wickets in a second Test as Bangladesh wrapped adult a 108-run feat in Dhaka on Sunday — their initial ever Test delight for a cricketing minnows over England.
Hasan had been vital with his relatives in a simple home in a working-class district of Khulna though Hasina, who is a penetrating cricket fan, told internal authorities to build something some-more fitting a inhabitant hero.
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“We are now perplexing to find a good mark to build Mehedi a new home following a primary minister’s directive,” pronounced Khulna district director Nazmul Ahsan.
While there was no evident word from Hasan himself, Bangladesh Cricket Board arch executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury pronounced it should assistance expostulate Hasan — who is a son of a taxi-driver — to larger heights.
“It is a present to a wonderboy from a premier for a shining opening in a Test array opposite England,” Chowdhury told AFP. “It will certainly enthuse him to work tough and do improved in a future.”
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Hasan, who usually done his Test entrance in a opening Test in Chittagong, was named both a male of a compare after his opening in Dhaka and a male of a series.
The feat in Dhaka, that meant a array finished tied, sparked furious celebrations among Bangladesh’s tens of millions of cricket fans.
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