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120 to get BCB contract

Alamgir takes charge of U-19s

Sports Reporter
One hundred and twenty cricketers will be brought under central contracts by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), it was announced at the end of an emergency meeting yesterday.
The proposal is to begin the one-year contracts from January 2013 with 15 players from each of the eight designated regions — Barisal, Khulna, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rangpur, Dhaka and Dhaka Metropolis.
BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal made the long-awaited announcement, which is being considered as the first major step towards decentralising the sport, after the meeting at the Mirpur headquarters last evening.
"We wanted to bring more cricketers under contracts so in view of this we have decided to bring 120 cricketers under our umbrella by giving them contracts, which will include the national team players," he told the reporters.
"The aim is for grassroots development so there will be 15 cricketers from each of the eight regions. It will be effective from January next year, and we will also cover their insurance premium," added Kamal.
He also informed that the board will have to spend an extra Tk3.5 crore per year as a result and the payment scale will depend on experience — 1-4,5-7 and 7-plus years — while the selection will be
completely based on performance.
The radical move also means that the board will bring in more professionalism to the process and in its first administrative step, the board will appoint eight former cricketers, preferably someone who has played for Bangladesh, as cricket operations managers.
"They will be paid by the BCB but under one condition, they have to be former players from the region.
"For example, someone from Rajshahi will be the operations manager for that region, not that of Sylhet, so that he can coordinate with everyone in that region," said Kamal.
Though the BCB chief didn't confirm any connection between this decision and the proposed franchisebased four-day competition from next season, it is apparent that these 120 cricketers will form the core of the first-class cricketers in this competition.
The other agenda that was discussed in the meeting was the under-19 team's failure to qualify for the semifinals of the Asia Cup, where they were eliminated by Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in the group stage. Captain Asif Ahmed, coach Zafrul Ehsan, manager Najmul Abedin Fahim, junior selectors Ehsanul Haque and Sajjad Ahmed Shipon were asked to appear before the board directors and explain the debacle only two months before the Under-19 World Cup in Australia.
BCB director Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir has been given the task of taking care of the under-19 side till the World Cup as the development committee chairman Aminul Islam Moni is sick.
"We have to take corrective measures ahead of the World Cup in Australia. We want to implement as much as we can to improve their performance. We have tried to reshape a few things by asking our director Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir to work alongside the current chairman, who is not well," informed Kamal.
There was a strong rumor that the board had sacked some of those who were asked to explain the team's performance but it was denied quickly. However, Kamal said that there will be some changes in the team that will go to Australia.
"We will announce the team very soon and there will be some changes. We will arrange some practice matches in Khulna.
The biggest problem I realised after talking to them was injuries to some key players as well as Anamul Haque being in the national team. I think his addition will make the team stronger," said the board president.
Kamal also informed that the West Indies High Performance team will visit the country while the South Africa women's team will also tour Bangladesh to take part in practice matches ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in September.