BCB rethinks of resuming cricket amid corona rising
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced that they are drawing back from their rethinking plan to start domestic and international cricket as the coronavirus cases are increasing heavily in the country.
Some of their players meanwhile have been affected by the dreadful pandemic that forced them to retreat from their proposed plan and rethink the new one.
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Nazmul Hossain Apu, and Nafees Iqbal have all been infected with the coronavirus after Ashiqur Rahman Mozumder, who finally got negative certificate after being hospitalized for so long having been affected by the dreadful COVID-19.
BCB Chief Selector Minhazul Abedin Nannu earlier told the media that the board was hoping to resume the national team’s training in mid-July.
BCB Director and Chairman of Games Development Committee Khaled Mahmud Sujon on Sunday said they are not in a position to restart training in a month as the death toll continued to rise.
“It’s not that Mashrafe or Apu [Nazmul] or someone else is infected. The overall condition is getting worse. Anyone could be infected now because the spread is now at community level. So I don’t think it’s possible to start players’ training in July because we’re seeing an inclining curve,’ Khaled Mahmud said.
“When we will see that the curve is declining, we might then consider it but that also not before a month or even more,” Sujon told a leading newspaper.
Few cricketers had requested BCB to open personal training facilities at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium but Mahmud thought it would not be wise right now.
“Mirpur has fallen in the Red-Zone. How can we allow players to train there? There are strict directives from the government also. The situation is not good,” the former captain said.
Mahmud, who is also a member of Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB), said that many players were also not interested to resume play which reflected in their change of stance about resuming the Dhaka Premier League (DPL).
