DHAKA, Feb 8, 2024 (BSS) - Title aspirant Rangpur Riders confirmed the 
service of Mominul Haque at the halfway mark of the Bangladesh Premier League 
(BPL). 

Rangpur indeed took the opportunity of the BPL rules of recruiting players 
from the draft at any time of the tournament. 

The reason to acquire the service of Mominul is to get a dependable top order 
player who can hold together the innings.

Rangpur's top order looked weakened after the departure of Babar Azam who not 
only opened the innings, but also gave the side stability by his quality 
batting on slow wicket.

Brandon King and Rony Talukdar so far partnered with former Pakistan captain 
Babar in opening the innings. Rony of late hit back to form but King's form 
is still worrisome.

Mominul played the last BPL for Comilla Victorians in 2021-2022. He however 
played just four matches in that edition but there was no taker for him in 
the last season.

This season too, no franchise showed any interest towards him. But Rangpur 
eventually took his service, making it sure that he won't be BPL snubbed for 
the consecutive two seasons.

His Test specialist tag is basically the reason that the franchise didn't 
show their interest to acquire his service in the prime T20 tournament of the 
country.

Despite not being regular in BPL, Mominul remains the 16th highest run-getter 
in the tournament by scoring 1364 runs in 71 innings of 82 matches. His 
strike rate is 107.48, which is poor by T20 standard but if it is compared to 
the strike rate of other Bangladeshi batters, it won't look that poor.