Only one hockey personnel out of six submitted a show-cause notice to the Bangladesh Hockey Federation on Tuesday after the national team’s disastrous performance in the recently concluded Asia Cup hockey tournament. Earlier, hockey’s governing body served show-cause notices to four senior players – Russell Mahmud Jimmy, Zahid Hossain, Qumruzzaman Rana and Imran Hasan Pintu – along with assistant coach Mahbub Harun and umpire Selim Lucky on October 13 and gave them 10 days to explain their roles behind the national side’s failure.
Umpire Lucky was the only one who came up with an explanation.
National forward Jimmy informed that the quartet will submit their reply to the federation secretariat today.
Assistant coach Harun did not answer his mobile phone despite several calls on Tuesday while Rana, who is currently at his home in Jhenaidah, admitted that he only received the show-cause letter on Monday.
BHF general secretary Khaja Rahamatullah confirmed that with the exception of Lucky, no one else offered the show-cause letters. Rahamatullah went on to say that the executive committee will take necessary steps if the accused do not reply by today.
Meanwhile, the decision to serve show-cause notices was taken
in a governing body meeting on October 10 following the reports
submitted by coach Naveed Alam, manager Abdur Rashid Sikder and the three-member fact-finding committee.
Bangladesh’s Pakistani head coach Naveed, skipper Mamunur Rahman Chayan, Krishna
Kumar, Pushkar Khisa Mimo and Mainul Islam Kaushik had also been warned by the BHF for their roles during the tournament.
-With New Age input
