Former cricketer eyes to generate TK 20 Lakhs for Corona victims
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Former national cricketers are raising fund for the coronavirus victims, said former national captain Akram Khan.
Bangladesh cricketers have decided to donate half of their monthly salaries to the government fund as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.
27 players are donating half of their monthly salaries. Among them 17 players are in BCB contract list and remaining 10 players have played in the national team recently.
‘’I am calling everyone. At the moment I am in Chattogram while Khaled Masud and Naimur Rahman are staying respectively staying at their home. We are trying to organize a fund for the corona affected by the former cricketers who are well off and hopefully we will organize it soon,’’ Akram told reporters on Monday.
‘’We are eyeing to put TK 20 Lakh and we are confident we can raise that fund to help the distressed,’’ he said, who is currently the cricket operation chairman of BCB.
Earlier, Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] official said that they are ready to give any logistic support to the government, they are also ready provide Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to be set up as an isolation centre for the treatment of coronavirus patients if the government wants, report agencies.
BCB said that the board is ready to provide the national stadium as well as the academies to the government, the moment they ask for it.
BCB is expected to donate money as well to the PM relief fund and board president Nazmul Hasan insisted he is talking with concerned authorities in this regard.
