The Bangladesh Cricket Board deferred the earlier scheduled dates of Dhaka Premier League’s players recruitment programme and the beginning of the tournament for
unavoidable reasons, said a BCB text-message on Friday.
BCB media manager Rabeed Imam informed the media about the decision that poured cold water on the player recruitments and commencement of the league, respectively on June 23 and July 3.
The decision came a day after the BCB president Nazmul Hasan cast a shadow on the fate of the league before receiving the ICC’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit report on the alleged match-fixing issue in the Bangladesh Premier League.
The confession made by Mohammad Ashraful about his involvement in the unfair practice, that was followed by media reports suggesting the names of several international and domestic cricketers of Bangladesh, had pushed the board to postpone the league.
‘The ACSU report will be discussed in either the ICC’s AGM or in the board meeting. But they [ACSU] will sit with me for a couple of times apart from that,’ Nazmul told reporters at Mirpur.
‘I hope there is no name apart from Ashraful’s but what will happen if there are other players involved and they have the evidence,’ said Nazmul.
‘I expect to return on June 30. By that time I expect this ACSU matter to be resolved,’ he added.
-With New Age input
