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18 on BCB pay roll
South Africa’s Jacques Kallis, who was later named man-of-the-match, pulls one on his way to scoring a magnificent 83 against Pakistan during yesterday’s Singer Cup tri-series match at Colombo. AFP photo
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday decided' to bring 18 cricketers on its pay roll. The
first of its kind contract would be a one-year offer. But the elite eighteen would not be allowed to play in the Dhaka League, the most colorful domestic competition.
The salary of the players however is yet to be determined. Dje gcifral s*T|tfrv-]iTt#iie| ^WC^ Aslwafol Wq/has, aoru glvtn the .responsibility to lx the honorariums in consultation with those selected players.
The selected players are: Aminul Islam. Akram Khan Javed Omar Belim. Shahriar Jossain. Habibul Bashar. Al-ihahriar. Khaled Masood. Maimur Rahman. Bikash Ran-
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jan Das. Monjurul Islam, Sab-blr Ahmed. Naslrul Alam. Rajin Saleh. Mushflqur Rahman. Haslbul Hossain Enamul Hoque, Fahim Muntasir and Ehsanui Haq.
The list of notable absentees Includes national opener Mehrab Hossain, left-arm spinner Mohammed Rafique, medium pacer Safiuddin Ahmed and national vice-captain Khaled Mahmud. Among the quartet. Mehrab missed out due to d kfjJe1 injury
The''BWiYcr iVAV^br W’Bn1 option fd^ aft fin’ifteiHa'te rt-' placement tb'injurbd player ’ He will however be compensated handsomely.
ANNUAL CALENDAR
The meeting, which ran for more than three hours, also took some major decisions including approval of its annual calendar for 2000-2001.
The highlight of the schedule Is Bangladesh's maiden Test match on home soil in January. The opponents of that historic Test is however yet to be named. Also. Dhaka will host a tri-se-rles one-day tournament in November after Bangladesh's participation in the ICC knockout event, to be held In Kenya in inld-September. Following the Kenya spectacle. Bangladesh will also tour South Africa and Zimbabwe to play couple of first class matches
~ INTER-CLUB" TRANSFERS
Unlike last year, the Dhaka Leagues will be held ahead oi the Second National League. The inter-club cricketers' transfers will start from Octo-lier 1.
The season's traditional curtain-raiser Damal Smriti tour-nament will start on October 2 1 followed by the Premier Division League, which will commence from November 18 and continue until January 31
The-National League will get underway on February' 3.The format for the first-phase will be a three-day affair and the final phase will be a four-dayer
SABER HOLDS
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The BCB has nominated its president Saber Hossain Chowdhury as the executive committee'member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). While his deputy Ashraful Huq will sit on the ICC Cricket Committee Management.
Former national captain Roquibul Hassan got a consolation job as member of the Cricket Committee Playing Besides, former national cricketer Tanjeeb Ahsan Saad has been made a representative in the ICC Committee for Illegal Deliveries.