6 national cricketers sell out to ICL
Courtesy New Age 15/9/08 Azad Majumder
Six national players, dealing a major blow to
The decision of the six players — Habibul Bashar, Shahriar Nafees, Aftab Ahmed, Dhiman Ghosh, Farhad Reza and Mosharraf Hossain — was made following a report that at least 14 leading cricketers were going to join the ICL.
All the Bangladeshi players will form a team, named the Dhaka Warriors, to play in the third edition of the Twenty20 competition slated to begin from October 10.
The other cricketers linked with the competition are Alok Kapali, Nazim Uddin, Mohammad Rafique, Manjurul Islam, Tapash Baishya, Mohammad Sharif, Mahbubul Karim and Golam Mabud.
Apart from Karim and Mabud, all of them have represented
Of the seven contracted players, excepting Nazim Uddin, six have now severed their ties with the BCB. Unconfirmed sources said Nazim too had reportedly sent a letter through fax from his hometown
The other players came to the BCB to submit their letters of retirement in the morning at a time when there was no one to receive them. The players later left the BCB office, leaving the letters at the reception.
The officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, after coming to know of the sudden retirement, rushed to the office at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur and called an emergency meeting.
‘We are astonished at the sudden decision of the players. It was totally unexpected. We called them over the phone, sent text messages, but no one responded,’ the dumbfounded chairman of the cricket operations committee, Gazi Ashraf Hossain, told reporters at a press briefing.
‘Officially we don’t know why they have taken such a decision; all of them have mentioned “personal grounds” in their letters, which were all written in the same language. We have called them to the BCB at 2:00pm on Tuesday. Hopefully they will revoke their decision,’ said Gazi Ashraf.
Ashraf read out the letter from all-rounder Farhad Reza which said, ‘I have taken the decision to retire from all international, first-class and club cricket. This is totally my personal decision and I wish
Among the retired cricketers Farhad and Dhiman were in the
Ashraf said they would follow the ICC guideline in dealing with the players joining the ICL, a league that failed to get approval from the the Board of Control for Cricket in
The players who participated in the earlier editions of the league have been banned from playing international cricket by their respective national cricket boards.
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