When a player still continues playing with eight operations on both knees, a rare incident in sports world, his dengue fever or lack of fitness becomes something not to be cared totally.
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s undying desire to play for his country and his inspirational comeback, braving injuries every time earned him the nick name ‘Brave Heart.’ Once again his participation in an international match was left in limbo but he is still hopeful to lead the Bangladesh during its first ODI against Zimbabwe today. He declared him not ‘100 percent fit’ but hardly he played in a career, spanning 14 years as 100 percent fit. So if anyone wants to write off his chance to play the match because of just lack of match fitness, he would have to do it at his own peril. “I am still not 100 percent definitely. It would be good if I could train more or recover more. Whenever I play for Bangladesh and I feel that I can play, I take that risk. I am hopeful to survive,” Mashrafe said.
The team management would take final call him today since the match will start at afternoon.
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If the recent performance of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe is anything to go by, the series between the two sides should be a mismatch. While Bangladesh would go into the series on the backdrop of four straight… 
Editor : M. Shamsur Rahman
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