Even as he continues to amaze cricket buffs by batting with exquisite technique and unwavering concentration, Mushfiqur Rahim has the tendency to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. His terrific batting has been overshadowed by his style of captaincy.  His "reported" verbal scuffle with the BCB and former coach Chandika Hathurusingha have brought him to the centre of controversy. He was recently relieved of the Test captaincy. Earlier, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza had replaced him as the ODI and T20 captain in 2014.

The dismal South Africa tour in which Mushfiqur made an outburst against the coach is believed to have triggered his expulsion from the captain’s job. BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon, however, did not provide any reason for removing him from the captaincy when he announced the name of Shakib Al Hasan as the Test captain.

At that time, Mushfiqur was holidaying in Thailand with his family members and could not be contacted. Even after his return to the country, he chose to avoid the media. However, the media got a chance to get his reaction when he came to inaugurate the restaurant “Karaai N Curry” along with BCB media and communications committee chairman Jalal Yunus. After the formal opening, Mushfiqur was in a hurry to leave, but the journalists tried to get his reaxtion.

“No more talks to the media,” that’s all the scurrying reporters could get out of him. As the media continued to dog him, Mushfiqur said: “I’m doing a course on how to interact with the media. Let me finish it first and then I’ll see what happens.” The answer left everyone baffled. When Jalal Yunus was asked about Mushfiqur’s “course”, he said: “It’d be good to know where he’s doing the course.”

Mushfiqur’s answer was not just a joke or an angry reaction. It is believed that his reply was directed at some people who once said he did not know how to interact with the media. It may be recalled that after Mushfiqur’s outbursts in South Africa, BCB president Papon and director Khaled Mahmud Sujon had said that Mushfiqur should be careful in choosing his words while talking to the media.