BCB waking up at last

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) holds an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss matters relating to the prevailing stalemate in cricket.

In the meeting, scheduled to start at 10 am, the Board may take disciplinary action against the agitating cricketers, fear sources concerned.

BCB has already issued show cause notice to 31 cricketers, who did not report for the ongoing four-day match against MCC to uphold the decision of the Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB). CWAB called for a boycott of the match in protest of the deferment of inter-club transfer and the exclusion of three prominent cricketers, who were targeted by the CCDM (Cricket Committee for Dhaka Metropolitan officials.

Eight out of the 39 cricketers however reported to the BCB, much to the shock of CWAB.

CWAB is now consulting with lawyers before sending the reply of the BCB notice. It was learnt that the replies of all the 31 cricketers would be same.

Meanwhile, CCDM chairman Tanvir Haider and Dhaka Mahanagari Cricket Club Samiti (MCCS), in two separate press release, defended their positions on the prevailing impasse.