{"id":415565,"date":"2026-01-15T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415565\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:35:08","slug":"bangladesh-player-boycott-najmul-islam-sacked-fixtures-mustafizur-rahman-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415565\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh player boycott, Najmul Islam sacked, fixtures, Mustafizur Rahman, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday sacked a senior official after their leading men\u2019s cricketers went on strike, escalating a crisis that has already seen the nation refuse to tour India for next month\u2019s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The BCB has been in turmoil since ties with India soured, prompting Dhaka to ask the International Cricket Council to shift its group matches to co-host Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The World Cup begins on February 7, with Bangladesh still scheduled to play four games in India.<\/p>\n

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The row deepened after Najmul Islam, head of the BCB\u2019s finance committee, lashed out at the players who demanded compensation from the board if the team were to pull out of the marquee competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are spending so much money on them, they are not being able to do anything in different places,\u201d Najmul said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave we got any international awards? What have we done at any level? Let us now ask them for the money back after every time they can\u2019t play. Why should there even be a question of compensating the players?\u201d<\/p>\n

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In protest against his remarks, teams pulled out of Thursday\u2019s first match of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League<\/a>, demanding Najmul be ousted within next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

The BCB had distanced itself from Najmul\u2019s remarks and on Thursday removed him from the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing a review of recent developments and in the best interest of the organisation, the BCB President has decided to release Mr. Najmul Islam from his responsibilities as Chairman of the Finance Committee with immediate effect,\u201d the BCB said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The row erupted on January 3, when the Indian cricket board (BCCI) ordered the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders to release Bangladesh fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman following tensions between the neighbouring nations.<\/p>\n

The BCCI did not publicly give a reason for his removal but the presence of the Bangladesh player sparked criticism from some right-wing groups after a Hindu man was lynched in Bangladesh in December.<\/p>\n

Political relations between India and Bangladesh soured after a mass uprising in Dhaka in 2024 toppled then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, a close ally of New Delhi.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s foreign ministry last month condemned what it called \u201cunremitting hostility against minorities\u201d in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh\u2019s interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, has accused India of exaggerating the scale of the violence.<\/p>\n

Mustafizur, who has played in the IPL for other teams in previous editions, was snapped up at auction in December by Kolkata for more than AU$1.5 million.<\/p>\n

His sacking sparked fury in Dhaka.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh, led by Litton Das, are placed ninth in the ICC T20 rankings. They have played all the nine editions of the tournament, but have never qualified for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday sacked a senior official after their leading men\u2019s cricketers went on strike,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}