The recent controversies of the second division cricket may eclipse the Third Division Cricket League that gets underway today, feared many clubs involving in the tournament as their meeting with authority ended unconvincingly on Saturday.
The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis arranged a meeting with clubs but it ended up abruptly when Bangladesh Cricket Board officials decided to call it off after reading out the playing conditions.
Bad umpiring came under the spotlight in the recently concluded Second Division Cricket League and only ended up with suspension of players, clubs and officials at different degrees for their so-called protest against it.
BCB introduced match referees for the lower-tier tournament after the recent scandal but failed to implement TV cameras despite being promised by the board president Nazmul Hasan.
Nazmul announced TV cameras will be in place in every tournament under their jurisdiction to assess the performance as the incidents of Second Division attracted the whole cricketing world and the Bangladesh Cricket Board introduced match referees for the Third Division Cricket League amid wide media coverage of those incidents.
Clubs are not aware about the umpires who would be in charge but much to their disappointment they were neither given the chance to ask about it nor provided with any appropriate answers otherwise.
The urgency about umpires were even more acute as CCDM had submitted names of nine umpires to BCB umpires committee as they are afraid these umpires may not remain neutral going by their track records.
Both Azizul Bari and Shamsur Rahman, who have been facing a ban for six months as they were unable to control situations in both the controversial matches of the second division that resulted many bans, are part of the list of the incompetent umpires submitted by CCDM.
The nine member list are — Jahangir, Amin, Jacky, John, Abul, Babu, Siraj junior, Wahid Chowhan and Sohrab and whether they will be allowed to officiate in the third division still remains unclear.
‘How can they stop the meeting at halfway,’ Nabin Sangha representative Arif asked furiously.
‘We had several queries but they just did not bother to listen and in the end we will see the same old story of umpires that repeats year after year in the lower tier,’ he said.
Miraz Hossain, coordinator assigned by CCDM for Third Division preferred to play safe by announcing they will only know after the match gets underway.
‘You all know we don’t have any beforehand knowledge about umpires so we can only say about it after the game gets underway’, he said.
Afzalur Rahman, who represented BCB umpire committee in the meeting, could not provide any list of umpires for the third tier and said it will be prepared afterwards.
‘We don’t have any list but we will make it tonight,’ he said.
The league that will feature 20 teams in total suddenly hogged the entire spotlight firstly because of the second division incident and secondly because of the upcoming BCB election.
Eight teams that will play the Super League will have one councilor who will have the right to exercise their power in the next BCB election as the present tenure of Nazmul Hasan end on October 2017.
The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis arranged a meeting with clubs but it ended up abruptly when Bangladesh Cricket Board officials decided to call it off after reading out the playing conditions.
Bad umpiring came under the spotlight in the recently concluded Second Division Cricket League and only ended up with suspension of players, clubs and officials at different degrees for their so-called protest against it.
BCB introduced match referees for the lower-tier tournament after the recent scandal but failed to implement TV cameras despite being promised by the board president Nazmul Hasan.
Nazmul announced TV cameras will be in place in every tournament under their jurisdiction to assess the performance as the incidents of Second Division attracted the whole cricketing world and the Bangladesh Cricket Board introduced match referees for the Third Division Cricket League amid wide media coverage of those incidents.
Clubs are not aware about the umpires who would be in charge but much to their disappointment they were neither given the chance to ask about it nor provided with any appropriate answers otherwise.
The urgency about umpires were even more acute as CCDM had submitted names of nine umpires to BCB umpires committee as they are afraid these umpires may not remain neutral going by their track records.
Both Azizul Bari and Shamsur Rahman, who have been facing a ban for six months as they were unable to control situations in both the controversial matches of the second division that resulted many bans, are part of the list of the incompetent umpires submitted by CCDM.
The nine member list are — Jahangir, Amin, Jacky, John, Abul, Babu, Siraj junior, Wahid Chowhan and Sohrab and whether they will be allowed to officiate in the third division still remains unclear.
‘How can they stop the meeting at halfway,’ Nabin Sangha representative Arif asked furiously.
‘We had several queries but they just did not bother to listen and in the end we will see the same old story of umpires that repeats year after year in the lower tier,’ he said.
Miraz Hossain, coordinator assigned by CCDM for Third Division preferred to play safe by announcing they will only know after the match gets underway.
‘You all know we don’t have any beforehand knowledge about umpires so we can only say about it after the game gets underway’, he said.
Afzalur Rahman, who represented BCB umpire committee in the meeting, could not provide any list of umpires for the third tier and said it will be prepared afterwards.
‘We don’t have any list but we will make it tonight,’ he said.
The league that will feature 20 teams in total suddenly hogged the entire spotlight firstly because of the second division incident and secondly because of the upcoming BCB election.
Eight teams that will play the Super League will have one councilor who will have the right to exercise their power in the next BCB election as the present tenure of Nazmul Hasan end on October 2017.
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