'Was Tamim the vice captain?'
Among the many changes that the Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan detailed after the BCB meeting in Mirpur yesterday, that one of them was not much remarked upon just shows the plight of the cricket vice-captain.
Mahmudullah Riyad was named the new vice-captain, replacing Tamim Iqbal in the role, and will deputise for Shakib Al Hasan in the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. The elegant right-hander will probably not want to celebrate much when he hears what the BCB boss had to say about the vice-captaincy situation.
"Was Tamim [the vice-captain]?" Hassan asked one of his colleagues during the press conference yesterday when reminded that he had just named a new vice-captain. "Was he? He is the T20 vice-captain, and he will remain the T20 vice-captain."
The BCB boss was not aware of the identity of his Test vice-captain, and that will not imbue Mahmudullah with confidence in his new senior role. Neither will it help Tamim, whose T20 vice-captaincy was made to sound like a consolation prize by his president, handle the loss of the Test deputy role any better. But according to the BCB boss, it really is not a big loss.
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