Beep test for disqualified NCL aspirants on October 6
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Cricketers aspiring to feature in the National Cricket League but fail to earn the required points in the beep test will have their second chance to prove their fitness on October 6.
Some seasoned domestic campaigners failed in the beep test conducted by the Bangladesh Cricket Board ahead of the upcoming National Cricket League, country’s traditional first-class tournament at the BCB indoor on October.
BCB made beep test mandatory for all the players eyeing to take part in the NCL while in order to enhance the physical fitness board has raised the benchmark for the beep test.
Last year BCB introduced the fitness test in the NCL and it was decided that players getting nine points will be considered for the traditional first-class tournament but this year it had increased to 11 points and it had raised quite a few eyebrows as large numbers of cricketers complained that they have not got enough time to prepare them for the beep test as they were informed the only couple of days back about this development.
There were some notable failures among the senior cricketers in the beep test like Mohammad Ashraful, Abdur Razzak, Arafat Sunny and Elias Sunny, Nasir Hossain, Nadif Chowdhury and Mohammad Sharif are among the few who failed to cross the fitness hurdle put by BCB recently.
They were expected to have the second beep test on October 3 but BCB tournament committee official said now they have decided to hold the test on October 6.
NCL, country’s traditional first-class tournament, is expected to start from October 10 while it is expected to an exciting one considering available national players are all set to feature in the competition as they were told that no excuse will be accepted.
