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Time to go

STAR SPORT REPORT
Cricket in Bangladesh has been struck such a blow with the pathetic showing in the World Cup that it will take super-human efforts and tons of luck to turn things around. And even then, there's no guarantee that the game will ever regain its cult status among an out of patience population.
Everyone across the country is calling for wholesale changes in the cricket administration, more specifically in the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), and fans, players, organisers and anybody associated with cricket are unanimous in the opinion that we need to start afresh.
If reports published in reliable national dailies on Monday are to be believed (and there's no reason not to), then the self-ruling BCB boss Ali Asghar Lobi, MP thinks that we have to begin from the scratch to revitalise our cricket. What Asghar also needs to understand is that you just can't begin anew with the same old faces, who have carried Bangladesh's cricket to its lowest ebb, still running the show.
The ruling party lawmaker has blamed the players' lack of commitment, pointed fingers at the manager, coach, physio, trainer and everybody associated with the
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squad and warned all that they have to face an inquiry committee made up of 'a retired Army officer and a retired government bureaucrat' on return home from South Africa.
While creating the perfect scenario to make the team the scapegoat for his own failures, Asghar seems to be trying to shield his chaotic BCB set-up that has delivered nothing but controversy over the last one and a half years.
It is also clear that the BCB chief is not on the same wavelength with the national sentiment. Otherwise how could he suggest something as dull-witted as appointing an exarmy person and a former government official to inquire the World Cup misadventure? Who is Asghar trying to fool? Does he think that through military intelligence and aura and bureaucracy he will force the national cricket squad into submission?
Besides, the 'dubious duo' of Asghar's choice can never be expected to give a neutral judgement as they will be handpicked by the BCB President himself. Also, they can't be entrusted with handling something as technical and subtle like cricket simply because their professional backgrounds are not complimentary to the game.
Naturally, questions have to be asked. Why isn't Asghar prepared to form the probe committee with former national cricketers who could do a far better job? Is he afraid of the truth?
Asghar has never been a popular administrator. His insensitiveness to criticism, politicisation of the BCB with ruling party sympathisers, total disregard for decentralisation of the game, appointment of a foreign coach with questionable credentials and general aloofness about addressing pressing issues were few of the reasons why he never enjoyed the desired loyalty and respect of the country's cricketing fraternity.
From the very beginning of his reign, Asghar had taken steps that have sent alarm signals to the future of the game. He was determined to polish off any sign of his predecessors' work, be it good or bad.
He changed the heads of various bodies, brought in prime minister's son Arafat Rahman as the chief of the BCB's development committee in an unprecedented act of favouritism in place of a proven personality like Saber Hossain Chowdhury and then went on to destroy the highly successful National Cricket League format.
His development committee has been basking in the glory of their prestigious positions with development of cricket appearing to be the last thing on their minds.
The domestic cricket structure is in shambles. Asghar and his group of advisors have squeezed the National League format in such a way that there is now fewer number of first class matches, less time between fixtures and games are only played in and around Dhaka rather than across the country as was the case when the previous BCB administration introduced the popular concept four seasons ago.
It is worth mentioning that talents like Alok Kapali and Tapash Baisya were unearthed through the National Cricket League and it would have been impossible to spot them if the competition had been only Dhaka based.
The appointment of the unheralded Pakistanis Mohsin Kamal and Ali Zia as national coach and assistant coach also created adverse reaction among the players and cricket lovers. It is still baffling how the BCB boss could bring in people with little or no credibility and track record and
hand over the charge of the national team to them. Asghar had once tried to justify the appointments saying that we need coaches who can understand our culture. Do the Bangladeshis and Pakistanis have the same culture? Has the history been forgotten by all of us already?
We can now argue that the standard of our cricket in the World Cup only reflected the quality of our coaches and few would debate that statement. Include the latest World Cup debacle to the low points of the past two years and you get a reign of disappointment.
While players are being grilled for their performance, or the lack of it, the men behind the scene and those who call the shots in our cricket, are denying responsibility. This just can't go on and the BCB chief should set an example by shouldering his fair share of blame because, like it or not, his position makes him the man with whom lies the ultimate accountability.
Asghar can still portray himself as an exception should he show the courage that typical Bangladeshi politicians and lawmakers don't have and step down from the Board president's post admitting that he had failed to deliver. If he is the true well-wisher of cricket as he claims himself to be, he should not wait for any so-called inquiry commission's recommendations or pressure from the public before deciding it's time to say goodbye.