No decision about Mustafiz before Monday: BCB

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will reveal the place after Monday where Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman might undergo for his shoulder surgery.

Mohammed Jalal Yunus, chief of BCB Media on Saturday said this to journalists that BCB will decided within Monday that Mustafiz will go either in England or in Australia for his shoulder surgery.

Having gone through Mustafizur`s medical reports from England, the BCB has decided to take another opinion from Dr Greg Hoy in Australia who had earlier operated on Tamim Iqbal (wrist) and Anamul Haque (shoulder).

According to Debashish, the left-armer will take at least five months to recover from the surgery, which means he is set to miss the England series which is due to begin in October this year and it could also be difficult for him to return in time for the New Zealand series which will begin with the ODIs on December 26.

The shoulder injury is Mustafizur`s fifth this year.  In January, he had injured his shoulder during the second T20I against Zimbabwe.

At that point, BCB`s sports physician had indicated that the left-armer`s shoulder issue was not a new phenomenon and that he had first faced problems with his left shoulder during the National Cricket League in October last year.

He had been dealing with it through shoulder-related exercises since the end of 2015. It was because of that injury that he missed out on the Pakistan Super League.