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Former England bowler Simon Jones admits Glamorgan will be underdogs in the YB40 final but says the team will be up for the challenge against favourites Notts

Alan Gardner19-Sep-2013When it comes to sport, the Welsh tend to sing whether they are winning or not. Glamorgan supporters have not had too much to fill their lungs about in recent times but, on Saturday, they will make their first trip to Lord’s for a domestic one-day final in more than a decade. The home of cricket may need soundproofing.Nottinghamshire are favourites to win the Yorkshire Bank 40, having cruised through the group stage and thrashed perennial nearly men Somerset in their semi-final, but Glamorgan are quite happy to be overlooked by the . In truth, this is unfamiliar territory for both sides – it will be the third Lord’s final appearance in Glamorgan’s history and only Nottinghamshire’s fifth, their most recent coming in 1989 – but while Notts have a surfeit of England internationals to call upon, their opponents are largely unsung outside of Cardiff.There will surely be an ode or two composed to Michael Hogan – the tournament’s leading wicket-taker – or Jim Allenby if Glamorgan manage an upset. The starting XI may be a little light on homegrown players (Allenby and Hogan are Australian) but Simon Jones will always be a household name in Wales. It is eight years since he last played for England, eight years since he became an Ashes winner, yet there are still those who whisper reverentially about his piston right shoulder and powers of reverse swing.Jones could be about to pull on a Glamorgan shirt for the final time – he announced his retirement from first-class and List A cricket last week, though hopes to maintain the club as part of a T20 portfolio – and he says they are happy to accept the underdog tag. “That’s just the way it is but we relish that, we love a challenge and hopefully we’ll surprise a few people,” he said.”It’s a bit of a Welsh trait, isn’t it – we’re tigers, as a nation. Welsh sport is really looking up, with the rugby, with the football and now we’re in a Lord’s final. We’re obviously the only Welsh team in the County Championship and it’s something we’re very proud of, once you put on a Glamorgan shirt it’s something that you treasure. We play cricket with passion and I think that’s a big key for us.”The focus at Glamorgan over the last few years has been on making their ground a credible international venue but while the faithful require their churches, it is silver rather than glass and steel that they worship. Beaten finalists in the Benson & Hedges Cup in 2000, Glamorgan won the National League in 2002 and 2004 before a lean spell, pock-marked by upheaval on and off the pitch. The YB40 campaign, building on some encouraging form in the Friends Life t20, hints at the green (and yellow) shoots of making the county competitive again.”It’s been a tough time,” Jones said. “We had a lot of success in the early 2000s, the last time we won a major cup was in 2004, so it’s been a long time coming. We’ve had to rebuild, we lost a lot of senior players in the early 2000s – Matt Maynard, Steve James, Adrian Dale, Steve Watkin, Robert Croft, Tony Cottey. These guys are huge for Glamorgan, so we were in the process of rebuilding and it is flourishing now. It has taken that time to find a settled team and have the squad of players that play the brand of cricket that we like playing.”A recognition that a successful Glamorgan, incorporating local talent, was needed to maintain public interest in the sport in Wales has driven the current strategy, which involves balancing experienced signings like Allenby, Hogan and Murray Goodwin with promising young players such as Ben Wright, Mike Reed and Andrew Salter. Jones, who counts himself among the “old buggers”, believes that the team in one-day cricket has just “clicked”, but they won’t be getting ahead of themselves, despite an impressive semi-final victory over the holders, Hampshire.”We’ve got the blend of youth and experience right in the team. We’re not going to get giddy and go to Lord’s with our heads swelling because that’s the wrong way to approach a final. We’re going to go in there level-headed, prepare like we have and see where that takes us. We’ve got a lot of self-belief but we have the utmost respect for Nottinghamshire.”Should he make the starting XI as expected, this will be Jones first Lord’s final appearance. To achieve that with Glamorgan, the county that made him and where he returned two years ago after spells with Worcestershire and Hampshire, is a “special, special feeling”. He says of the current team: “We’re a great bunch of lads, we’ve worked hard for each other all year and it’s nice to get a bit of credibility back. Hopefully we can go there and express ourselves and keep on playing the way we have.”Would victory be a new career high? Jones isn’t ruling it out. “The Ashes is history, but the feeling I think I’d have if we can win will be up there with the Ashes, maybe bigger. Because when you play with England you’ve got the cream of the crop from around the county circuit and are expected to win. Glamorgan have put out a Welsh team who fight hard and work hard and, yes, we have a lot of talent but people have always doubted us and I think that’s the key for us. We’ve proved a lot of people wrong and that’s why I’m so happy.”Simon Jones was speaking ahead of the Yorkshire Bank 40 final at Lord’s on Saturday, September 21. Tickets are available from tickets.lords.org

With questions on the make-up of Bangladesh’s bowling, Mushfiqur Rahim said that things could have been different had Shahadat Hossain not picked up an injury

Mohammad Isam in Mirpur09-May-2015The second Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan was wrapped up at 2:04 pm on the fourth afternoon. But thoughts remained on what happened 30 minutes before the start of the game on Wednesday.Mushfiqur Rahim, the Bangladesh captain, had opted to bowl on a pitch that did more for fast bowlers in the first two hours of the first day, than it did in the last couple of years. Still, Bangladesh went in the Test with just two pace bowlers. Mushfiqur, however, insisted the team had three seamers.”It wasn’t just the two pace bowlers,” Mushfiqur said. “We took three pace bowlers if you consider Soumya (Sarkar). It was a unanimous decision of the team management. The outcome is showing it was a wrong decision. If it was a correct decision, there wouldn’t be much talk.”Everyone has a say. It is not my team or the coach’s team. This is the Bangladesh team. Everyone has an input. We decide what everything things is good for the team. The selectors, coaches, myself are all there,” he said.Sarkar had to bowl in place of the injured Shahadat Hossain after two balls into the game but he did not have the numbers to back himself as a third seamer in a Test. He had only been used for seven overs in two ODIs while he only bowled one over in Khulna where Rubel Hossain and Mohammad Shahid were the pace bowlers.  In first-class cricket, Sarkar has 19 wickets in 34 matches with a five-for taken in November 2012.Mushfiqur said that had Shahadat been fit, things could have been different. On the first day, Bangladesh took three wickets, two of which came in the first session.”Many of you have said that we should have batted first after winning the toss,” Mushfiqur said. “But it was the team management’s decision; the wicket had a lot of help for the bowlers in the first two hours. We could have taken three-four wickets if (Shahadat Hossain) Rajib didn’t get injured. If we could have bowled them out for a low score and taken a lead, this Test would have been different. But it didn’t happen. The blame is on us.””We decided the playing XI after seeing the wicket,” he said. “We pick a 12-man squad and then decide the XI on the morning of the first day. We decide early whether we want to bat or bowl first. We speak to the curator about what sort of wicket it will be. All of us, including the senior cricketers, read the wicket. It is not a singular decision ultimately.The other issue was in the spin department but Mushfiqur said that had Jubair Hossain not picked up an injury (heel), he would have been picked. Pakistan’s Yasir Shah, the legspinner, found considerable grip on the Mirpur pitch to pick up seven wickets in the game.”We needed to replace (Jubair Hossain) Likhon who got injured on the morning of the first day,” he said. “Otherwise he would have played the game. We thought Shuvagata was the better option. Yasir Shah bowled well so Jubair could have had some benefit from this wicket.”Interestingly, Mushfiqur said the decision to prepare a sporting wicket in Mirpur was a result of criticism of the Khulna wicket. There was discussion about the wicket in talk shows in Bangladeshi TV channels and in the Pakistan media.”There was a lot of talk about how the Khulna wicket was too flat where the bowlers weren’t able to take 20 wickets,” he said. “We wanted to create an opportunity to take 20 wickets while at the same time let the batsmen play freely too. This is what the team management decided.”Mushfiqur, however, said that rather than talking about the pitch, the focus should be on the Bangladesh players’ failure in this game to score runs and take wickets.

Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town will host the T20 series between South Africa and Australia next March

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Jun-2015Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town will host the T20 series between South Africa and Australia next March. The first and third T20s – to be played at Kingsmead and Newlands on March 4 and 9 – will be night matches starting at 6pm local time while the second game at the Wanderers will begin at 2.30pm on March 6.The series, which will conclude a packed South African summer that also includes visits from New Zealand and England, will serve as a lead-up to the World T20 – which begins on March 11 – for both teams.”This announcement completes our home international fixtures for the 2015/16 summer,” said CSA Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat. “We will be competing at home against New Zealand, England and Australia. These are three top-class teams and it promises to be one of our most exciting and competitive home seasons in a long time.”The T20 Series against Australia provides for both teams the perfect lead-in to the ICC World Twenty20 which will be played in India immediately afterwards.”

The only optimistic note on a grey day at Old Trafford was that Tom Smith’s back operation had been a success. Smith, appointed Lancashire captain in February, has led them in just one championship game

Paul Edwards06-Jul-2015Lancashire 96 for 4 v Essex
ScorecardNews that Tom Smith’s back operation promised to be a success lifted a grey Manchester day•Getty Images

As the clans gathered at Cardiff and Yorkshire ran through Warwickshire quicker than stomach trouble on a campsite, one did not have to be a cricketing paranoid to think that the main action was taking place many miles away from Emirates Old Trafford this damp Monday.The only optimistic note of the grey afternoon was struck when it was reported that Tom Smith ‘s back operation had been a success. Smith was appointed Lancashire captain in February but has been able to lead his team in just one championship game this season.Yet the 25.4 overs that were possible on the first day of Lancashire’s Division Two match against Essex were important to players in both teams. By common agreement Lancashire produced their worst championship cricket of the season in last week’s grimy draw against Northamptonshire. Glamorgan, third, may trail by 50 points but they have a couple of games in hand and still have to play Lancashire twice. Ashley Giles will be on the lookout for the least speck of complacency among his players.And as Glamorgan fought their own battle against the weather in the urban pastoral of Queen’s Park, Chesterfield, they may have been heartened to hear of Lancashire’s struggle to a very moderate 96 for 4 against Essex on a day when James Porter added Paul Horton and Karl Brown to the 15 opening batsmen he had already sent packing this season.Porter bowls with a commendably high action and he is not scared to pitch the ball up. Those qualities may have led to him being milked for a few boundaries as the openers added 48 in 8.2 overs on the first morning but they also helped him achieve his successes.The first of these came when Horton pushed forward at a ball which moved enough off the seam to catch the outside edge and fly to the safe hands of Jesse Ryder at first slip; the second arrived just two balls later as Porter’s bounce surprised Karl Brown with the resulting nick being safely cupped by second slip Liam Dawson.If that catch helped Dawson feel that he belonged in the first game of his one-month loan from Hampshire, what happened over the next 15 overs may have turned him into an adopted son of Southend. Summoned into the attack by James Foster in the 16th over of Lancashire’s innings, the slow left-armer’s third ball had Alviro Petersen leg before for 14 when he played back to a delivery to which he might have gone forward.Having lunched on a moderate 92 for 3, the home side’s innings trespassed into outright mediocrity when Ashwell Prince tried to pull the first ball of the afternoon session to the boundary but only bottom-edged it onto his stumps. That gave Dawson his second wicket of a day which was soon to be cut short by the weather. A typically pugnacious clout over mid-on by the new batsman, Alex Davies, was the last scoring shot before a shower sent the players back to the pavilion just before two o’clock.

Liam Livingstone’s penultimate ball heave for six leaving Lancashire requiring three from the final delivery but he was run out off the last delivery

George Dobell26-Jun-2015
ScorecardRecordo Gordon took career-best figures to help Birmingham win a low-scoring contest•PA Photos

It was the sort of night where it paid to take it slowly.After an accident on M6 stretched Birmingham’s journey time above six hours – this game started half-an-hour late as a result – the teams found themselves playing this match on a dry, used pitch that rewarded spinners, cutters and bowlers who take pace off the ball.Perhaps it rewarded patience, too. A game that, by T20 standards, dragged for long portions – Birmingham hit only five fours after the first 37 balls of their innings – eventually rose to an exciting conclusion with Liam Livingstone’s penultimate ball heave for six leaving Lancashire requiring three from the final delivery. A mis-hit drive straight to mid-off resulted in a run-out as the batsmen attempted an almost impossible second to secure the tie.Victory, their 12th in 14 completed T20 games, takes Birmingham top of the table, though only three points separate the top four. Lancashire have now lost five of their nine T20 games this season. Only Middlesex and Derbyshire have lost more.But it seems a shame that a high-profile game – these sides were last year’s finalists and this game was televised – should be played on a pitch that did so little to encourage attacking strokeplay.Not that there is not a certain value – and charm – to these low-scoring contests. There will be times, in Asia in particular, when England teams play on such surfaces and the next World T20 is in India. Perhaps such matches offer perfect preparation.But was it the sort of surface to attract new spectators to the game? And isn’t that the point of T20 cricket? After an ODI series drenched in boundaries appeared to have revived interest in the sport, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that this was another own-goal by domestic cricket.It is not necessarily the groundsman’s fault. The huge amount of cricket required from their squares renders it almost inevitable that pitches will be reused and reduces the amount of preparation time for each track. Television coverage might also have been relevant here: cameras set-up for the ODI – played on the same pitch – would not have to have been moved by using the same surface. Perhaps there is something to be said for playing more games at out grounds?Bearing in mind the surface, it was particularly impressive that a young fast bowler should scoop his second Man-of-the-Match award in succession. Like all fast bowlers, 23-year-old Recordo Gordon loves to bowl with pace. But here, realising that such a tactic would be self-defeating, he unveiled a range of cutters and slowers balls – including a particularly good slower ball bouncer – that left batsmen struggling to pick up his length or settle against him. A haul of 4 for 20 was reward for an admirably mature, calm and skilful performance.Gordon also hit the only six of the Birmingham innings. Bearing in mind the margin of victory, it proved an important contribution.Winning the toss helped Birmingham. By the time Lancashire realised what sort of surface they were playing on, Birmingham had plundered 49 from the Powerplay with Brendon McCullum, on debut, thumping three successive boundaries and helping contribute to the highest partnership of the match. Varun Chopra’s 40 and Willaim Porterfield’s 36 were the highest individual scores of the game.But once Lancashire’s three spinners came into play, run-scoring became far more difficult. They delivered 12 of the next 14 overs and Birmingham never again scored more than eight from an over and added only 50 in their final eight overs. Stephen Parry, England’s seemingly forgotten left-arm spinner, was particularly impressive in conceding just 19 from his four overs; reward for his control and his excellent variations.While the target appeared modest, Lancashire rarely looked as if they would overhaul it. Paul Horton was run out after a hesitation, Ashwell Prince carved straight to the fielder and Steven Croft slog-swept to deep backward square. Although James Faulkner, who added 39 with Jordan Clark, looked as if he might power Lancashire to victory, his drive to mid-off made life extremely tough.Birmingham, confidence soaring from their run of success, have become expert at applying pressure in the field, with the young legspinner, Josh Poysden, complementing the reliable Jeetan Patel.Lancashire might reflect that their fielding cost them, by comparison to Birmingham, half-a-dozen runs. It was a fault highlighted by their coach, Ashley Giles, early in the tournament and, while it has improved, it remains some way below the current T20 champions. In games decided by such small margins, it is a crucial factor.

India fast bowler Sreesanth broke down with relief after hearing of his acquittal, and vowed to get back to cricket

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Jul-2015On hearing of his acquittal in the IPL spot-fixing case by a trial court in Delhi, India fast bowler Sreesanth broke down with relief. He is still facing a BCCI life ban but has vowed to get back to cricket.”I was just thinking when I took the World Cup catch [that clinched the 2007 World T20], I never thought, ‘Why me’,” he said. “But today honestly I thought, ‘Why me, for two years’ but maybe there is a reason. I just couldn’t control my tears, now I’m really happy, I love this.”Sreesanth last played official cricket during the 2013 IPL before being arrested by the Delhi Police for the alleged fulfilling of promises made to bookmakers. “I will try to start training properly as soon as possible,” he said. “I wasn’t allowed anything… Hopefully I can get permission from BCCI to use their facilities so that I can get fit and come into the selection process.”But the BCCI said in a release that their decisions were “independent to any criminal proceeding” and “based on its independent disciplinary action, shall remain unaltered.”Sreesanth spoke of the pain of being sidelined for the last two years. “The worst thing to happen as a cricketer, living just behind international stadium, and you are not allowed there. Even an Under-14 kid who respects you goes to the stadium and I was not allowed. I went through a lot of things but that’s past…I would love to go tomorrow and run there.”With the charges against him dropped, Sreesanth said cricket would take centre stage in his life again. “I want to play cricket. I know I have been in the news for movies and all that, but everybody knows that I am a cricketer first. I was just waiting, I was just making sure I don’t get bogged down in life, I want to play cricket.”He promised that his trademark delivery will soon make an appearance: “I will make sure I am fully fit and bowl those outswingers.”

Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah has challenged his suspension from official cricket by the BCCI in the Bombay High Court

Amol Karhadkar08-Aug-2015Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah has challenged his suspension from official cricket by the BCCI in the Bombay High Court. The board had suspended Shah with immediate effect in mid July after he was found guilty of having “approached” a Mumbai team-mate.On behalf of Shah, advocate Som Sinha filed a writ petition in the court last week. A two-judge bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice BP Colabawalla heard the matter on August 4. The judges didn’t grant any immediate relief to the petitioner but have asked the BCCI to file a written reply to the objections raised by Shah’s counsel. The case will next be heard again on August 11.ESPNcricinfo understands that Shah’s petition is based on the fact that he has been suspended without providing any details in writing about his alleged breaches. Shah is also understood to have noted in his plea that he had been granted permission to travel to the UK to play for the minor counties.While announcing Shah’s suspension, the BCCI release had noted: “Hiken Shah made a corrupt approach to one of his colleagues from first-class cricket, who is also a member of one of the IPL teams. The approached player immediately informed the incident to his franchise team. The franchise team followed the process of informing the incident to the Anti-Corruption Unit of the BCCI. Based on the information, BCCI President, Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya, instructed ACU to conduct an immediate inquiry into the matter.”After a detailed inquiry into the reported incident, the inquiry commissioner found Hiken Shah guilty of committing breach of Articles 2.1.1; 2.1.2; and 2.1.4 of the BCCI Anti-Corruption Code for participants and recommended their provisions to the BCCI President.”Shah, meanwhile, had stressed he was innocent. “All I will say is I am innocent and I will fight to prove it,” he had told ESPNcricinfo.

Worcestershire may be heading back to Division Two, but they do so in the knowledge that they have a crop of young players who promise better times around the corner

George Dobell at New Road23-Sep-2015
ScorecardTom Fell passed 1,000 runs for the season in the course of his unbeaten 167•Getty Images

Rarely has relegation tasted so sweet. Worcestershire may be heading back to Division Two, but they do so in the knowledge that they have a crop of young players who promise better times around the corner.It was a sense underlined on day two of this game when two men aged 21 dominated against an attack that proved too good for Yorkshire last week and a side that has been beaten just once this season. Really, if you had arrived at the ground not knowing which side was relegated and which was fighting for second place, you would have done well to guess Worcestershire were the stragglers.The two Toms – Kohler-Cadmore and Fell – have so far added 219 for the fourth wicket. It is by far Worcestershire’s highest stand of the season and takes their lead over Middlesex to 231. It is a fine effort from men who were born two years after Glen Chapple made his first-class debut.Fell, with his third century of the campaign, became the tenth man this season to 1,000 runs in Division One and the youngest by some distance. He didn’t give a chance until he had reached 158 – and even then his sliced drive off Tim Murtagh may not have carried to Nick Compton running in from the cover boundary – though, perhaps, had Murtagh been on the rope rather than a few yards in, his pull for six off James Harris when he had 76, might have been taken. It is the second time this year he has recorded a career-best score against Middlesex.Especially strong on the drive – some of his front-foot strokes through cover were a delight – he also showed some nice strokes on the back foot, with the cut and late cut deployed effectively. And, if he may have to develop his leg-side play – 111 of his runs have been scored on the off side – it bodes well for his future that he deals with deliveries on or just outside off stump so capably.Kohler-Cadmore, who only came back into the team when Alex Gidman broke his finger the day before the Durham match last week, was three short of his maiden first-class century when bad light ended play with 29.5 overs unbowled. It may result in a nervous night in a flat these two young batsmen share. Kohler-Cadmore has been close to the landmark before but, having reached 99 two years ago against Leicestershire, was bowled by the part-time spin of Dan Redfern.Not unlike a right-handed Graeme Smith, Kohler-Cadmore joined the Worcestershire academy from Malvern College. But, before that, he represented Yorkshire in age-group cricket, where he broke the U15 record for most runs in a season. It was a record previously held by Michael Vaughan. He generally plays admirably straight, but has the ability to whip anything back of length through the leg side. He did not give a chance, but reached his fifty with an edge through vacant third slip off Toby Roland-Jones and saw another edge fall just short of the cordon.In other circumstances, Worcestershire might worry about retaining such players. But both these two are signed up for the long-term, with Moeen Ali having spoken to them, and other promising players, and convinced them that they were part of something special developing at New Road. As his own career illustrates, it is quite possible to achieve international ambitions while remaining with the club.Shaaiq Choudhry and Gareth Andrew, however, have been released by Worcestershire; the latter largely due to his injury issues, though he hopes to continue his career elsewhere. Some doubt remains about the future of Richard Oliver, too. He has been offered a contract but on the condition he remains in England this winter to work on his game. For a man with a long and happy association with Geelong City CC in Victoria, that may prove a sacrifice too far.Perhaps, had Middlesex had a bowler of extreme pace available – as Worcestershire do in Shannon Gabriel – it may have been different. This pitch is now slow and, while there remains some movement available, the edges are not carrying and there was little to prevent the batsmen waiting on the front foot and putting away the over-pitched ball. Gabriel may prove more adept at exploiting any assistance that remains.Middlesex’s three main seamers will reflect that they did not maintain the tight line and length that they managed against Yorkshire, however. Murtagh has already conceded more than 100, while Harris has gone for in excess of five an over. By 4pm, the early wickets of Brett D’Oliveira, who mis-hit a long-hop to mid-on, and Joe Clarke, outstandingly well caught by Ollie Rayner diving low to his right at second slip, seemed a long time ago.It leaves Middlesex uncomfortably placed as they fight to retain second place in the table; a difference of £81,000 in prize money over the third-placed team. They were unfortunate with the toss, for sure, with conditions now more favourable for batting and their bowlers drawn into chasing the game. But with only 16.5 overs left in which to gain bowling bonus points, they have so far gained just one point from the match and, well behind on their over-rate (-3 at present) and facing the possibility they will not have an opportunity to make it up in the second innings, they may come to look back on this match as an expensive end to the season.

An ICC security assessment team, led by CEO David Richardson, has arrived in Dhaka to assess arrangements for the Under-19 World Cup in January next year

Mohammad Isam04-Nov-2015An ICC security assessment team, led by CEO David Richardson, has arrived in Dhaka to assess arrangements for the Under-19 World Cup in January next year. The team includes ICC’s head of events, Chris Tetley, and security consultants Sean Norris and Reg Dickason.On Thursday, the team will meet the High Commissioners of UK and Australia before the BCB presents its event security plan. They will leave for Cox’s Bazar on Friday and upon returning to Dhaka, they will meet two security agencies, the country’s home minister and have a final wrap-up meet with the BCB.During their October meeting, the ICC ratified Bangladesh as the Under-19 World Cup host. BCB media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said the board is confident the ICC delegation will leave Bangladesh satisfied with the arrangements.”This is a regulation inspection,” Jalal told ESPNcricinfo. “These take place before every big event. They also came before the ICC World T20 last year. It is quite obvious to require a security assessment. We are very much confident that they will be satisfied with our preparation. I am also confident that the event will be held properly in Bangladesh.”The Richardson-led security assessment team is scheduled to leave on November 7.

Shahadat Hossain was sent back to jail after completing a three-day remand in Dhaka on Tuesday

Mohammad Isam13-Oct-2015Bangladesh fast bowler Shahadat Hossain was sent back to jail after completing a three-day remand in Dhaka on Tuesday. Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam denied him bail after the probe officer Shafiqur Rahman, the officer-in-charge (investigation) of Mirpur model police station, appealed for the cricketer’s confinement during investigation of a case filed against him for allegedly torturing a housemaid.He was arrested on October 5 after he surrendered before a Dhaka court and had sought bail. His wife was arrested the day before from her father’s house.On September 6, the case had been filed against the couple under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. The 11-year old girl was found by a journalist in Mirpur and was taken to the police station where the case was filed, and she was sent to the Dhaka Medical College for treatment.