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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is still in dark about five national cricketers who signed contracts for taking part in the Sri Lankan Premier Cricket League (SLPL) which starts on August 10.
National team's captain Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Nasir Hossain and Elias Sunny were selected by three of the seven franchises of the SLPL, but Bangladesh's cricket governing body was not aware of it, as the SLC has not sent any documents to BCB regarding this matter.
“We did not get any information from the players about their participation in the SLPL and we came to know it only from the media,” Nizamuddin Chowdhury, acting chief executive officer of the BCB, told reporters yesterday.
“We are not against our players participating in a foreign league but they should remember that they are contracted players of BCB and must follow some rules, which they did not do in this case,” said Chowdhury.
Asked whether they would prefer to take any action for breaching the contracts, Chowdhury said that cricket operation would look into the matter and if there was any recommendation then the matter would be refereed to the disciplinary committee.
However, Mushfiqur Rahim regretted the mistake and held the players' agents responsible.
“I regret the mistake but I assume that the mistake was not only on my part. It was rather a mistake of the agent through whom we are dealing on the matter. The agent is supposed to communicate with the board,” Mushfiq told reporters.
“We thought that the BCB is well aware of everything regarding our participation in the SLPL,” said Mushfiq. “Now our participation in SLPL depends on the decision of the BCB.”
