Bangladesh cricket star Rubel Hossain got good news along his match-winning heroics Monday at the World Cup as a Bangladeshi actress who filed a rape case against him said Tuesday she was withdrawing the charges against the fast bowler.

Naznin Akter Happy, 19, made the rape allegation earlier this year after claiming Rubel had reneged on a promise of marriage that he made while they were having an "intimate affair".

The allegation had threatened to scupper Rubel's chances of appearing in the World Cup after he was remanded in custody by a court in Dhaka.

But he was later granted bail until the end of the World Cup in view of "national interest" as he was a key member of Bangladesh's team.

Happy said she had decided to forgive her former boyfriend who starred in a dramatic victory over England to reach World Cup quarterfinals on Monday.

"I've forgiven him. I am not going to continue the case against him," Happy told Channel 24 television on Tuesday.