Bangladesh Players End BPL Boycott After BCB Removes Nazmul Islam

Bangladesh cricketers have ended their boycott of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after the issue was settled in a meeting between the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the Cricketers' Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) on January 15. As a result, the BPL will resume on January 16. It is worth noting that the players had requested the resignation of BCB director M Nazmul Islam after he went on to call Tamim Iqbal an Indian agent for his comments on the ongoing controversy between India and Bangladesh.

He also talked about how not playing in the T20 World Cup would not result in any financial loss for the side. He stated that only the players would face losses from not travelling to India, for which they would not be compensated.The BCB caved in to the requests and decided to sack Nazmul from the finance committee, saying it was in the organisation’s best interests.

Bangladesh Players End BPL Boycott After Talks With BCB

“Keeping the greater interest of cricket in mind, we will resume playing tomorrow (on Friday). They (the BCB) have assured us that they will reach out to him (Nazmul) and fulfil our demands as early as possible," CWAB president Mohammad Mithun said in a press conference.

Although it is a good move on behalf of the players that Nazmul Islam has been removed, they have also asked for a sorry in public for the statements that Nazmul has made. BCB Director Iftekhar has come out to explain that Nazmul has been issued a show-cause notice.

“We follow our constitution, and according to it, we have sent him a show cause notice. He has been given 48 hours to respond, which will end at noon on [Saturday]. Then it will go to the disciplinary committee, as per the constitution and the process will continue. We tried to contact him throughout the day. We wanted to bring him here, but we couldn’t reach him," he said.

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