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Former cricketer Mosharraf Rubel dies

Bangladesh National Cricket team's former star player Mosharraf Hossain Rubel passed away on Tuesday afternoon.

He breathed his last at his home in the capital of Dhaka.

Left-hand spinner Rubel had been suffering from a brain tumour for around three years.

His death news came hours after former cricketer Samiur Rahman Samy, who played in Bangladesh's first international match, also died of a brain tumour.