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DT<br />
18<br />
Sports<br />
SUNDAY, JULY <strong>23</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Mustafizur Rahman bowls during training in Mirpur yesterday<br />
BCB CEO: Australia delegation<br />
to arrive in Dhaka Tuesday<br />
• Ali Shahriyar Bappa<br />
An Australian delegate team will<br />
arrive in Bangladesh on Tuesday,<br />
ahead of the Aussies’ tour of Bangladesh,<br />
informed BCB CEO Nizamuddin<br />
Chowdhury.<br />
Australian players have been<br />
involved with their board in a pay<br />
row for months now and only recently,<br />
Australia A side boycotted<br />
their tour of South Africa as the<br />
dispute between Cricket Australia<br />
and the Australia Cricketers’ Association<br />
did not resolve.<br />
Australia are supposed to play<br />
two Test matches against the Tigers<br />
this August.<br />
Bangladesh are currently practising<br />
hard in the fitness and conditioning<br />
camp, ahead of their<br />
much-awaited home series against<br />
Australia.<br />
As the series nears, BCB high-up<br />
Nizamuddin yet again said CA has<br />
not informed anything regarding<br />
the cancellation of their Bangladesh<br />
Tests and that a delegation<br />
team will arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday<br />
to inspect the facilities.<br />
“There is no talks from CA regarding<br />
the abandonment of the tour.<br />
But we will discuss today. A delegate<br />
team will visit Bangladesh<br />
on Tuesday. The delegate team<br />
have visited Dhaka on previous<br />
occasions. They were here during<br />
the England series (last year) and<br />
observed our security system. The<br />
team which visited Bangladesh<br />
Playing cricket is important for us.<br />
Australia’s participation is important. We<br />
don’t see any chance of the series losing<br />
glamour if anything does happen<br />
MD MANIK<br />
will observe the logistics and other<br />
facilities here. If they have any<br />
suggestions then they share them<br />
with us,” Nizamuddin told the media<br />
in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National<br />
Stadium yesterday.<br />
“BCB is preparing to host Australia.<br />
We are working according<br />
to that. CA is working on that too.<br />
What they are doing to resolve<br />
their dispute is their internal matter.<br />
We don’t want to make any<br />
comment on that,” he said.<br />
According to some media reports,<br />
Australia might send a<br />
weakened team to Bangladesh.<br />
When asked regarding the<br />
speculation, the BCB CEO<br />
confidently said Bangladesh<br />
are fully focused on Australia’s<br />
visit and that they are preparing<br />
accordingly for the tour, rather<br />
than concentrating on which side<br />
the Aussies might send.<br />
“Playing cricket is important for<br />
us. Australia’s participation is important.<br />
We don’t see any chance<br />
of the series losing glamour if anything<br />
does happen,” concluded<br />
Nizamuddin. •<br />
Decision on<br />
number of<br />
BPL foreigners<br />
in playing XI<br />
tomorrow<br />
• Tribune Report<br />
The franchises’ opinion on the<br />
foreign players’ policy in the<br />
Bangladesh Premier League<br />
Twenty20 is likely to end up even<br />
square.<br />
It is understood that among the<br />
eight teams, four have made their<br />
opinion of allowing maximum<br />
four foreign cricketers while equal<br />
number of teams have asked the<br />
BPL governing council to allow<br />
maximum five cricketers in the<br />
playing XI.<br />
An official announcement from<br />
the BPL GC is however, due.<br />
It is learnt that a final decision on<br />
the issue will be reached tomorrow<br />
in a BPL GC meeting.<br />
The meeting will also finalise<br />
the names of the Icon cricketers for<br />
the tournament’s fifth season and<br />
also other policies related to the<br />
competition.<br />
Yesterday was the deadline for<br />
the eight BPL franchises to submit<br />
their opinion on the overseas<br />
players’ policy for the fifth edition<br />
of the tournament, which is<br />
scheduled to begin in November<br />
this year.<br />
The BPL GC during a press<br />
conference in May this year had<br />
informed that they were mulling<br />
allowing five foreigners in the<br />
playing XI and that the request<br />
had come from the franchises<br />
and for the greater benefit of the<br />
tournament.<br />
The opinion by the BPL GC<br />
paved the way for mixed emotions.<br />
Bangladesh ODI captain<br />
Mashrafe bin Mortaza and opener<br />
Tamim Iqbal went on record, saying<br />
five overseas cricketers should not<br />
be allowed in the playing XI.<br />
Mashrafe, who is set to play for<br />
Rangpur Riders this season while<br />
Tamim for Comilla Victorians, have<br />
said playing five foreigners will cut<br />
the opportunity of the local players<br />
in the tournament.<br />
If five overseas cricketers in the<br />
XI is allowed, it will not be the first<br />
time of such instance happening in<br />
the tournament.<br />
The money-spinning BPL T20<br />
in its first two seasons allowed a<br />
maximum of five foreigners in the<br />
playing XI.<br />
Mashrafe in both the seasons<br />
captained Dhaka Gladiators and<br />
lifted the title.<br />
The Gladiators were scrapped<br />
later following fixing controversies.<br />
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