BCB calls players for bilateral meeting to resolve crisis
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||CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has invited the players for a bilateral meeting in any place in bid to resolve the problems in the wake of the cricketers 11-point demands.
Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the CEO of the BCB said, the board is ready to sit with the players in any place with an aim to bring a solution of the problems that left the country's cricket at a stalemate.
Bangladesh has an important series coming as they will play a full bilateral series, comprised with three T20 Internationals and two Test matches, in India for the first time. The two-Test matches are also the part of Bangladesh's World Test Championship game.
The practice camp for the series begins on this Friday.
"After the press conference of the BCB president on Tuesday, we tried to contact with the players. I have personally talked to our national opener Tamim Iqbal. We informed him that it is a matter of time just to resolve the financial problem that they put forth in their 11-point demand. I told him that if they hold a meeting with the board, the problems will be solved," Chowdhury told the reporters on Wednesday
"He (Tamim) told me that he would inform me about the outcome after discussing with his colleagues.
Hopefully, they would let us know the outcome very soon. We have already been informed that the players will sit together again today at any moment. We are available at 5 PM today and if they want they can sit with us in any place, be it inboard or another place.
The board president Nazmul Hassan Papon on Tuesday smelled a conspiracy in players' strike, stating that when most of the demands that the players put forward have already been met while the other are on the course of being fulfilled, this sort of activities to stop cricket could be a part of conspiracy
However asked whether the board softens their stance, the CEO said, "There is nothing to soften the voice or anything else. The board president has repeatedly said that the problems the players put forward could be solved anytime if they sit with the board. He also has already said that he in principle is agreed
to solve those problems."
Chowdhury further said that the board's future plan was not hampered by the strike of the players.
"Everything is going according to the plan. But what's important is that the problems should be resolved as early as possible "
A news, however, surfaced that the ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been given the responsibility to mediate the problems between the board and players. But the CEO said they are not informed about the outcome.
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"He (Mashrafe) is currently the captain of Bangladesh ODI team and he is also an honourable MP. We actually don't know whether he is given such kind of responsibility," he said.
