Bangladesh cricketer reveals ordeal of overseas players in PSL: 'Mitchell told me that he would never go to Pakistan'

Bangladeshi cricketer Rishad Hossain revealed the ordeal that several overseas players playing in the Pakistan Super League went through amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan . Rishad, who represents Lahore Qalandars in the PSL, also confirmed that all the foreign players have safely arrived in the UAE after the Pakistan Cricket Board halted the 10th edition of the PSL , which got underway last month and was scheduled to conclude on 18 May.

Rishad claimed England cricketer Tom Curran “started crying like a little child” and New Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell stating he would “never go to Pakistan again”. The Bangladesh leg-spinner added that other foreign players including Sam Billings, Kusal Perera and David Wiese were “frightened” by the sudden escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed south Asian neighbours.

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‘Mitchell told me that he would never go to Pakistan again’: Rishad

“Foreign players like Sam Billings, Daryl Mitchell, Kushal Perera, David Wiese, Tom Curran… all of them were so frightened… Landing in Dubai, Mitchell told me that he would never go to Pakistan again, especially in this kind of scenario. Overall, they were all horrified,” Rishad told Cricbuzz after arriving in Dubai on Saturday.

“He (Tom Curran) went to the airport, but heard that the airport was closed. Then he started crying like a little child, that it took two or three people to handle him,” the 22-year-old added.

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Rishad and pacer Nahid Rana were the two Bangladeshi cricketers participating in the PSL, the latter representing Peshawar Zalmi, before the PCB brought the ongoing 10th season to a halt hours after the BCCI’s decision to suspend the Indian Premier League for a week.

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India had agreed to a ceasefire agreement initiated by Pakistan and mediated by the United States, only for their neighbours to violate the truce with drone and artillery attacks in Srinagar and other parts of the country located close to the international border.