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BHF bans four seniors

Sports Reporter
In an unprecedented yet anticipated move, the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) yesterday suspended four senior national players from both international and domestic circuit for different terms and relieved assistant coach Mahbub Harun from his duties for deliberately underperforming and violating discipline during the Asia Cup in August this year.
Striker Rasel Mahmud Jimmy, goalkeeper Zahid Hossain and defender Imran Hasan Pintu have been banned from the national team for three years and suspended from domestic competitions for two years while midfielder Kamruzzaman Rana has been handed a two-year ban from the national team and for one year from the domestic circuit.
The decision was taken unanimously after a four-hour meeting of the executive committee of BHF yester-
day which analysed reports of the probe committee formed for the Asia Cup debacle, reports from coach and manager and replies of show-cause notices from the players and the assistant coach.
"In order to bring back discipline in the national team and to keep the team in the right direction, we have been forced to take such a decision," said BHF president and Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari after the meeting.
The BHF president later conceded that the performance and disciplines of the players before and during the Asia Cup were two of the major reasons behind the suspension but their previous contribution to the national team was also taken into consideration.
Since the end of the Asia Cup where Bangladesh performed poorly and finished seventh out of eight teams, allegations were raised against some of the senior players of creating fractions within the squad, breaching discipline, deliberately underperforming, not co-
operating with the coach and mixing too much with the opposition players and officials. Assistant coach Harun was accused of carrying liquor and distributing it among the players. In the wake of these allegations, the BHF formed a fact-finding committee on September 18 and served show-cause notices to four players, a coach and an umpire on October 10, giving them 13 days' time to reply.
One of the members who attended the meeting said that the tone of replies of all four players were almost identical, with an attacking verve, where they all denied the allegations brought against them. However, Harun's reply was decent and the coach even admitted to making mistakes.
Jimmy, the star forward of the national team, said that he was not surprised with the decision. "We knew it all along that they [BHF] would suspend us for our movement regarding the inter-club players' transfers. I take it as a reward for serving the national team for ten years," was the sarcastic reply from Jimmy.