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40 days disappear, how many more?

Sports Reporter
The only thing that has happened in the last forty days is bring out the irony of Bangladesh cricket in front of the world. As everyone sings praise of the Tigers after their Asia Cup performance, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has effectively benched the players through a level of ineptness that has not been seen for a longtime.
Sadly, it has put the country's cricket back by two steps after it took a giant stride forward. The erstwhile Tigers coach Stuart Law put it as eloquently as possible: "The domestic cricket here is a structure of which there's no blueprint anywhere else in the world. It stops it starts; it would be nice to see that these games take place in these days, rather than two teams have a fall-out and the whole tournament is suspended."
Such poor scheduling, decision-making and leadership are bound to keep cricketers at home and cricket suspended.
"That's not good for cricket in this country. I know it's a different culture but as an outsider looking in, it can't be good for cricket. We are all trying to say that domestic cricket is where we want our cricketers to learn, they're learning by sitting back! That's not helping them at all," said Law the day before he left the country. One might question his limited contribution to the Tigers, but Law stated the bleeding obvious.
Only six days after Bangladesh reached
the Asia Cup final to the amazement of cricket followers around the world, the Dhaka Premier League stopped in its tracks and has since not seen the light of day.
The sort of people who have failed to put the Super League phase back on the field make for compelling reading. After the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) suspended the league, it was taken up by the BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal.
He passed the buck to a four-member committee that had a senior vice-president apart from three influential directors in charge to put the house in order. They too failed to convince Abahani, Mohammedan Sporting Club and Victoria Sporting Club. Soon the other clubs — OldDOHS, Gazi Tank and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club — protested the delay and a date was proposed. The big three threatened a no-show and in the meantime, there were two rainy days in the capital. It was like a blessing to the inert BCB officials. They directed CCDM to postpone the league further and since then while several dates came up and many statements were made, nothing fruitful has happened.
To make matters worse, the man for whom all of this began in the first place gave two conflicting statements in the last two days, much to the board's chagrin.
Despite clarifying what he was trying to tell the media, Yousuf has made the matter an international issue from what was a domestic problem.
Now the irony of Bangladesh cricket is out in the open: while the team is winning rave reviews of the cricketing public across the world, while international figures are putting their hand up to coach the Tigers and while the topic of many discussions is the excitement that Bangladesh generates as a cricketing nation, the cricket authorities have done the exact opposite and spoiled the momentum.
Interestingly, many of the present-day directors were up in arms with strong quotes and doomsday predictions in 2004
when the BCB failed to run the Dhaka leagues after hosting the Under-19 World Cup. Now they have fingers pointed at them for their lack of courage while facingthe top clubs.
It is now or never for the current BCB regime. League cricket has never been played in June so if they take the Super League to next month, it will be the height of incredulity. But that too looks a forlorn hope as there is a lot of doubt about their convincing abilities to bring the clubs back to the field and complete the league.