Cricketers postpone strike, start camp Friday

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Bangla Tribune Desk
Published : 23:03, Oct 23, 2019 | Updated : 01:11, Oct 24, 2019

Bangladesh cricketers have postponed their strikes and will take part in the camps on Friday (Oct 25).
The development came after cricketers met the Bangladesh Cricket Board top officials at its office in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Wednesday (Oct 23) night.
The board has agreed with most of the demands submitted by the players and the players are content, BCB president Nazmul Hasan told the media after the meeting.
The players will go back to their camps for the upcoming Tigers’ tour of India on Friday (Oct 25), he informed.
Shakib Al Hasan, the Test and T20I captain of Bangladesh, told the journalists that they are happy with the discussion.
They will get down to action with the third round of the National Cricket League, which was scheduled to start Thursday but will now get underway Saturday, he added.

The two parties reaching a common ground has also removed doubts over Bangladesh’s much-anticipated tour of India comprising two Test matches and three T20Is.
Nazmul following around a two-hour meeting with around 60 to 70 cricketers declared that the board has accepted nine demands.
“We cannot come to a decision on CWAB (Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh), it is not a body of the board. I am sure the cricketers and the CWAB can come to a decision on this. The other point we need time to think of is allowing the cricketers to play more than two overseas franchise leagues in a year,” said Nazmul to the media at the BCB headquarters.
Cricket’s regulatory body of the country could not decide on points 12 and 13 as well, which were added freshly Wednesday.

The cricketers in their newly added demands pressed on transparency and accountability of income and expenditure in Bangladesh cricket in the interest of all its stakeholders.
The cricketers demanded that professional cricketers be given a fair share of the revenue generated by BCB through commercial exploitation of cricket and its associated interests, which, after all, is made possible through the toil and performance of the professional cricketers in the first place.
A cricketer's welfare, provident and compensation fund and insurance scheme has to be established and administered, which will ensure welfare of cricketers who have fallen on hard times, pensions to retired cricketers and compensation to injured cricketers.
The cricketers also added that the practical and commercially feasible and similar provisions will have to be made for female cricketers as well, with the ultimate objective of attaining gender parity as early as possible.
“Problem was the demands were sent to us through a Barrister. The moment we see a letter coming, we send it straight to our legal team. Now we know that it was just a letter, so we will look into the points and decide,” Nazmul informed.
Bangladesh Test and ODI captain Shakib al Hasan spoke on behalf of the protesting cricketers.
“Most of the demands have been accepted and will be discussed further. We will however, be happy only after the demands are implemented. The discussion [Wednesday] with the board was fruitful,” said Shakib.
The Bangladesh cricketers Monday called off participation from all activities as they announced thier demands to improve the state of the game in the country.

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