What would have happened on 15 March 2019 if the Bangladeshi team was not busy in the football match? What if the team bus had arrived on time?
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New Delhi. What if the Bangladeshi team bus had left for the mosque on time? What would have happened if the battle of victory and defeat had not started in a football match? What would have happened if he had gone inside the mosque 2 minutes earlier? This is the question which might have come to the mind of those Bangladeshi cricketers who were going to the Christchurch mosque on the afternoon of March 15, 2019, to offer Namaz.
March 15… The date, which is remembered in the world of cricket, not for any match, but because of a terrorist attack. 15 March 2019, when the Bangladeshi team got a chance to escape due to a delay of 2 minutes and the team managed to escape from there. It has been 4 years since that incident, but even today, remembering the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the spirit of Bangladeshi players trembles.
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save life by running
Actually at that time the Bangladeshi team was on New Zealand tour for the Test series. The third Test was to be played on Saturday. On Friday, a day before the match, the team reached the mosque for prayers. The team was about to go inside the mosque. Only then did they see blood-stained people. There was chaos. The team did not get down from the bus. Hearing the sound of gunfire, the Bangladeshi player immediately saved his life by running through the park towards the Hagley Oval.
Entire team got saved from active shooters!!! Frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers #christchurchMosqueAttack
— Tamim Iqbal Khan (@TamimOfficial28) Mar 15, 2019
Bangladesh tour canceled in the evening
Actually the players were in the bus, but then some journalists came near the bus and ran towards a safe place with the players. After this attack, the tour of Bangladesh was also canceled the same evening. About 50 people were killed in the terrorist attack in 2 mosques. The Bangladeshi team escaped with a delay of 2 minutes. After this incident, Tamim Iqbal told how the delay of 2 minutes gave life to the entire team.
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delay due to football match
Actually the bus was supposed to reach the mosque at 1.30 pm, but Riyad Mahmudullah went to the press conference. He stayed there for some time and after the press conference was over, he went straight to the dressing room. After this the team got busy in the football match. Taijul Islam did not want to lose the match, but others wanted him to lose.
avoid delay
Taijul and Mushfiqur Rahim were playing face to face, which took a few more minutes and it was here that a few minutes saved the Bangladesh team. If he had reached the mosque a few minutes earlier, he would have been inside the mosque at that time, but due to the delay, he understood the matter outside and got time to escape from there.
