Sports Desk: Former national team cricketer Mosharraf Hossain Rubel passed away on Tuesday after battling with brain cancer for long. He was 40.
Rubel breathed his last at the United Hospital in the capital this afternoon.
The national team’s former off-spinner has played five One-Day Internationals for Bangladesh and has 26 wickets to his name.
In 2019, Rubel was diagnosed with a brain tumor and then moved to Singapore. There he took chemotherapy in stages. Rubel underwent surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. Then he returned to the country. But for chemo and radiotherapy, he had to visit in Singapore regularly. The last chemo was given in December of that year. He was in follow-up for one year.
Rubel was preparing to return to the field in 2020. But fell ill again in November. After an MRI in the last week of January 2021, it was found that the old tumor was growing again. From then on, chemotherapy started again. In all, Rubel received 24 chemotherapy treatments. He was undergoing treatment in the ICU of a hospital in the capital for the last few days. He died while undergoing treatment.
