Bangladesh cricket took successful as gamers boycotted the primary Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match on Thursday and demanded the resignation of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Director Najmul Islam after he was handed a show-cause discover following controversial feedback in opposition to the nation’s cricketers on Wednesday. The Each day Star reported.
The event comes amid Bangladesh’s standoff with the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) over its refusal to journey to India for subsequent month’s T20 World Cup.
Bangladesh introduced on Jan 4 that it might not play its T20 World Cup matches in India after its participant Mustafizur Rahman was Launched by his Indian Premier League (IPL) workforce amid rising tensions between the 2 international locations. Subsequently, Bangladesh “formally requested” the ICC to shift their video games to Sri Lanka, which is co-hosting the match starting February 7.
The primary BPL match scheduled for 1pm native time at present was delayed as gamers from Chattogram Royals and Noakhali Categorical didn’t present up on the Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Cricket Stadium for the sport, in line with The Daily Star.
Islam was handed a show-cause discover by the BCB a couple of hours earlier than the match was set to start. Nonetheless, the Cricketers’ Welfare Affiliation of Bangladesh (CWAB) has known as for a nationwide boycott on all types of cricket except Islam tenders his resignation.
Islam, the board’s finance committee chairman, mentioned on Wednesday evening that he believes nationwide cricketers ought to be requested to return the “crores and crores of taka” that the BCB spends on them. ESPN Cricinfo reported.
The BCB formally distanced itself from Islam’s feedback and expressed its “honest remorse for remarks which may be deemed inappropriate, offensive, or hurtful.
“The Bangladesh Cricket Board additionally makes it clear that it’s going to take applicable disciplinary motion in opposition to any particular person whose conduct or feedback present disrespect in direction of cricketers or trigger hurt to the status and integrity of Bangladesh cricket,” the board mentioned in a press release, per Cricinfo.
The boycott was proposed by Mohammad Mithun, president of the Cricketers’ Welfare Affiliation of Bangladesh (CWAB), hours after Islam’s press convention on the BCB’s headquarters in Dhaka.
“The comment made by the BCB director [Najmul Islam] has damage the cricket fraternity significantly, and it is not acceptable,” Mithun informed reporters on Wednesday night.
“We demand his resignation. If he does not resign earlier than tomorrow’s match, we are going to announce a boycott of all cricket, ranging from the BPL matches tomorrow (Thursday).”
In line with The Each day StarNajmul mentioned the board owes no compensation to gamers if Bangladesh misses the upcoming world cup, arguing that the BCB has by no means sought refunds from cricketers after poor performances at world occasions.
“The query [of compensation] doesn’t even come up. We have now invested a lot [in] them, they have not been capable of obtain something, anyplace,” The Each day Star quoted Islam as saying.
“Have we received a single world trophy until now? Then we might’ve mentioned each time, you could have didn’t carry out, no matter we have now spent on you, now we are going to take it again. Return it to us,” Islam mentioned.
Bangladesh, led by Litton Das, are placed ninth within the ICC T20 rankings. They’ve performed all 9 editions of the match, however have by no means certified for the semi-finals.
