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Absent Shakib risks BCB ire

Cricket

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan went AWOL for a second successive day in an event that evoked a strong reaction in the cricket community and has apparendy forced his employer Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to think of disciplinarymeasures.
Shakib skipped training under new head coach Stuart Law yesterday without taking any prior permission from the board, only to add fuel to a growing dissatisfaction against his inexplicable act that followed his allegation against chief selector Akram Khan over the selection of the Zimbabwe-bound squad.
The all-rounder, who returned home on July 17 after playing for English county Worcestershire, was reported to have sent a text message to BCB's cricket operations committee chairman Enayet Hossain Siraj yesterday, seeking leave till July 24, three days before he leads the Tigers to Zimbabwe
for a single Test and five ODI's.
Siraj, apparently annoyed with the unusual approach, asked Shakib to go through a proper process.
Finally, he submitted a written application in the evening to BCB's chief executive officer (CEO) for granting him leave. According to a close source in the board, the CEO did grant his leave till July 22, but also asked him to appear at the BCB headquarters today.
In his belated letter, Shakib wrote that he needs the break as he was tired after playing county cricket. It was however learnt that Shakib, whom everyone expected to attend the first training session of new Australian coach, was busy shooting a commercial for the last couple of days.
A close associate of Shakib informed that he is going to join the camp today but the game's governing body, which is convinced that the captain has crudely violated the players' code of conduct, is planning to come down hard on him to set an example.
CEO Manzur Ahmed however was
not ready to make any comments regarding the action but he said that they have decided to thoroughly investigate the matter.
"I'm not in a position to make any comments right at the moment but we took the matter seriously and will thoroughly investigate before taking any decision," said Manzur.
BCB's media committee chairman Jalal Yunus however said that Shakib already breached the code of conduct after the way he made his comments against the selectors regarding the team selection for the coming Zimbabwe tour and his second act of skipping the training without permission was termed as a more serious crime than the first one.
“He (Shakib Al Hasan) clearly breached the code of conduct after the way he made his comments over the team selection. The cricket operations committee chairman and CEO are looking after the matter and we are waiting for their action regarding the issue,” saidYunus.
“It's a simple courtesy that as a captain he will meet with the new coach but unfortunately he didn't do it. His act simply gave the new team management a bad impression which is totally unacceptable," he added.
Like Yunus, some other board directors were also concerned over the Bangladesh captain's recent activities.
“As per his desire the board has appointed him captain for the long-term but what he is doing hardly showed that he has got the ability to lead the team. As a captain he should meet with the new coach to discuss about the planning of a very important tour,” said a director, who was not interested to disclose his name.
“He (Shakib) seems to think himself above everything. And in one sense we are responsible because we didn't take proper action in his first occurrence. But time has come to take a proper action against him,” he added.