Nazmul Hassan is currently serving his fourth term as the board head. ©Cricbuzz
Bangladesh Cricket Board officials claimed on Thursday (August 15) that board president Nazmul Hassan is ready to quit from his post in order to cooperate with the government to bring reform.
Nazmul, who is currently serving his fourth term as chief of the country's cricket governing body, had been in hiding with his wife in London ever since the unrest in the country began, triggered by the student protests against the recently dissolved Sheikh Hasina government. He is willing to step down from the post since he has fled the country. Since August 5, few other influential board directors who are believed to have the backing of the former Prime Minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, have also been in hiding.
It was learnt that a couple of board directors currently staying in Dhaka sat together on August 14 to discuss their next course of action since the BCB has currently being subject of much discussion in the country's sporting fraternity. Several former cricket board officials as well as organisers have come to the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium during the last couple days with the demand of the resignations of the Nazmul-led panel from the board.
"One of our directors is in touch with him and, according to him, Papon bhai is ready to cooperate (with the government) and is also prepared to quit from the President's post to bring reform in the board" a BCB director, who attended the meeting, told Cricbuzz on Thursday.
Another BCB director, who was part of the meeting, echoed the same sentiment, adding that if the board is run by an elected body thereafter, they will need full cooperation of the interim government. Recently,
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