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Dhaka Warriors is born

BCB rejects resignation letters

Sports Reporter
The desperate effort of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) or the lack of it finally saw the rebellion that hit the headlines on Sunday culminated in an uninterrupted transition after Shahriar Nafees and Alok Kapali sneaked through the green channel of the Zia International Airport yesterday and flew to Delhi to usher in a successful coup by the Indian Cricket League (ICL).
When Shahriar and Alok, two of the six contracted cricketers who resigned to aspire their careers with the banned ICL left on the morning the board officials were sitting at their headquarters in Mirpur hoping that at least dashing right-hander Aftab Ahmed would defy the lure of lucre and report to them on a day they called a meeting with the 14 rebel cricketers.
Sadly though Aftab did not appear, at least to save their blushes. Worse was another wicket fell after opening batsman Nazimuddin. the seventh board contracted player, sent his resignation letter through fax
And as the day wore on, confir-
mation came from across the boarder that a team titled Dhaka Warriors is born with the signing of the 13 rebel cricketers from Bangladesh.
"1 signed with the ICL 1 am very solvent, so money is not a big factor for me," said Shahriar just before leading the country.
Despite all the facts BCB was not ready to take the final decision on the rebel players rather they called an emergency board meeting today to decide about the fate of the cricketers.
"We are not accepting their retirement letters. They didn't give us any prior notice before submitting the letters which is a clear violation of contract. Also they didn't mention when would their retirements be effective from," said Gazi Ashraf Hossain, chairman of BCB’s cricket operations committee, who met the press along with
the other board members after waiting two hours for the rebel players.
"It was also totally unacceptable the way they talked with the media and hence they breached the code of conduct. The cricket operations committee will table their recommendations to the emergency meeting and they will ultimately take the decision. And definitely everything will be decided in line with the ICC's decision about unauthorised competition in last March,” he informed.
The BCB officials met with their legal experts yesterday to make the guideline for the meeting.
"But still our door is open for them and we have extended our hands to welcome them back, but they must come to us before we have taken the final decision. But time and tide wait for none in this
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world. It's true we will miss their international experience but we have players in the pipeline. And I request everybody to look at their recent performance," said Ashraf.
The former national skipper said that they had hardly any clue about the happenings although there were some whispering in the market.
"Our main mistake was that we followed the last board's players' contract document where there were number of loopholes. And we will definitely update it next time as well as we will also try to improve the financial benefits of the players in the domestic competitions," he informed.
The question was raised whether Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful should be blamed for the episode as many was talking like that but Ashraf was not ready to add more fuel on the issue.
"I know there is lot of talking about his involvement but we should talk with him first. We don't know about his link with the whole thing. He (Ashraful) however informed about the offer he got from ICL. And you know he is the player who will definitely get the highest offer and it's no joke to refuse 15 crore taka, "said Ashraf.
He however replied diplomatically when asked to say about former general secretary Mahbub Anam’s comments about Ashraful’s involvement in the whole process.
"If he (Mahbub) has said that Ashraful was the main man behind then he should have informed us first. As a cricket lover he should have talked before it all happened. We are here to serve the game and not doing politics," he said.