Mashrafe appointed GP brand ambassador

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, captain of Bangladesh national cricket team for One Day International and T-20, has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the country’s leading mobile operator Grameenphone.

Mashrafe will work together with Grameenphone, the market leader mobile phone operator of the country, to empower the society, a press release said on Monday.

About his association with Grameenphone, Mashrafe said, ‘As a brand Grameenphone believes in overcoming obstacles and going beyond limit. In my personal and professional life, I always believed in crossing my limits and keeping faith in my inner power and the supporters’ trust.’

Mortaza was born in the district of Narail in south-west Bangladesh. Although he enjoyed playing sports such as football and badminton from a young age-sometimes going swimming in the nearby River Chitra instead of doing school work-In between playing cricket, Mortaza got himself admitted into Department of Philosophy at the Jahangirnagar University in 2003-04 session for his bachelor’s degree.