The Bangladesh cricket team was said to be
Shrinivas Chandrasekaran, the team’s high performance analyst, posted on the social media site: « Just escaped active shooters! Heartbeats pumping badly and panic everywhere! »
Match canceled
The third Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand, set to begin Saturday, has now been canceled and Bangladesh Cricket has said the team is « safely back in the hotel. »
Mohammed Isam, Bangladesh correspondent for ESPN, has been traveling with the team and told the NZ Herald that the team had just arrived at the mosque for Friday prayers and were about to disembark the bus when gunshots were heard.
