People were shaken by the crackle of bullets in the mosque, the lives of the cricketers were narrowly saved

New Delhi: The Bangladesh cricket team was on a tour of New Zealand in the year 2019 for three ODIs and as many Test matches series. Hosts New Zealand continued their dominance in the Tests by winning the ODI series 3–0. New Zealand easily defeated Bangladesh in the opening two Tests. The third Test match was to be played in Christchurch from Saturday, 16 March. All the preparations were done for the match. A day before on Friday, in the afternoon, Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah had come to the press conference keeping his point.

After this, the entire team boarded the bus and left for the mosque for Friday prayers. The team was supposed to reach the mosque at 1.30 am for prayers but the team bus got delayed by a few minutes. As soon as the team reached near the mosque in Christchurch, the whole area was shaken by the thunder of bullets. The players sitting in the team bus did not understand what had happened.

There was an atmosphere of chaos all around, wherever he found a place, he started running to save his life. Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi cricketer also saved himself somehow by going to a nearby park keeping his life at stake. The whole team was shaken by this attack in the mosque. Somehow all the players were brought to the hotel safely from there. After this in the evening, the Bangladeshi team decided to cancel the last Test match.

black day for cricket

A total of 50 people were killed and hundreds were injured in the Christchurch mosque attack. Fortunately, none of the Bangladeshi cricketers suffered serious injuries. This incident is remembered as a black day in the history of cricket. Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal tweeted and informed the entire team about being safe. Bangladeshi players still shudder remembering that incident.

Life was saved due to delay

It is believed that some of the players were busy playing football when the Bangladeshi team was leaving for prayers. Due to this there was a delay of few minutes for Namaz. By the time the team bus reached Christchurch, there had already been firing. It was because of this delay that the Bangladeshi players could not go to the mosque, which narrowly saved their lives.

If the team had reached the mosque for Namaz on time, perhaps even bigger untoward could have happened, but thankfully all the cricketers remained safe in that firing incident.

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