Cricketers withhold strike after BCB meeting

Cricketers withhold strike after BCB meeting

The national cricketers withdrew strike and will be returning to cricketing activities from October 25. Cricketers met with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officials after discussing among themselves at a local hotel in the evening today.

BCB president Nazmul Hassan infromed that the two parties resolved the issues between them and that the National Cricket League (NCL) will resume from October 26 while the national team players will start their camp from October 25 ahead of their tour to India for a three-match T20I and a following two-match Test series.

"We sat a while ago with the players. We thank them for coming. They had some demands and I let you know yesterday that most of them were agreeable and that they would be done if they came, and that happened today. Of the 11 demands, there is nothing the BCB can do about that and the last one, we said it would be on a case-to-case basis because not many players get requests from more than two leagues. We are not saying anything solid because we had some thinking behind that i let you know before that those other nine demands are possible to meet.

"Changing the player-by-choice system in the DPL to the previous players' transfer system, we agreed... reverting to the previous BPL system from the next season, we agreed.

"The third round of the NCL was decided to be scrapped, but they wanted to play so we agreed to start it from Saturday. The national team players will join the camp from the 25th.

"I think it is a very good resolution. The players may not think that because of my anger the previous few days.

"We did not discuss the two new issues, we only talked about the original 11 demands. I heard that a lawyer or barrister came and we immediately referred it to our legal win. We did not discuss those two demands, only the 11 original demands." said BCB president Nazmul after the meeting in Mirpur.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh T20I and Test skipper Shakib Al Hasan said that the players will be happy when all the demands that were discussed today are implemented.

"Most of our demands were heard by everyone here including the president and they agreed to meet them as soon as possible and with that hope the first-class players will start playing from Saturday and the national team players will start camp from the 25th.

"Honestly, we spoke about that. We do not know the names of the rules or regulations even but we asked him to hold the elections as soon as possible and have a representative of the players to hear the issues of the players. We will do that when we have time, maybe after the NCL.

"As the new demands were made today, they did not get a chance to discuss. But when we sit again, they will bring those to the table.

"Only all the players can say whether we are happy. Once those things are implemented we can say better how happy we are." said Shakib.