Would Litton or Soumya face same heat as Mustafizur, asks ex-BCB official

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) wide caput and ex-Asian Cricket Council (ACC) CEO Syed Ashraful Haque has launched a scathing critique of governmental interference successful cricket administration, calling the ongoing contention involving Mustafizur Rahman and Bangladesh’s information successful the T20 World Cup “ridiculous” and “a parody”.Speaking astatine magnitude connected the statement surrounding Bangladesh’s matches successful India and the request for a hybrid model, Haque said the athletics crossed the subcontinent has been “hijacked by politicians” who neither recognize cricket nor its wider implications.

“The full cricket ecosystem successful India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, everyplace has been hijacked by politicians. Just deliberation astir it. Would this ever person happened if radical similar Mr Jagmohan Dalmia, Mr IS Bindra, Mr Madhavrao Scindia, Mr NKP Salve oregon adjacent Mr N Srinivasan were successful charge? This would ne'er person happened due to the fact that they were mature people.

They understood the crippled and they understood the implications," Haque tells TimesofIndia.com from Kuala Lumpur.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!“Now it has been hijacked completely. You person radical who person ne'er held a bat. In your case, you person Jay Shah, who has ne'er adjacent held a cricket bat successful a competitory match.”

He didn't hesitate from questioning the enactment successful his state arsenic well.“We person the aforesaid happening here. The authorities is tally by radical who are not politicians, nor are they experienced successful sports.

Our sports advisor gives a connection that Bangladesh should not spell to India. Think astir it. This is simply a World Cup event. This is not the IPL. IPL is simply a home tournament. This is an planetary World Cup event. You cannot travel retired with rash statements similar this.”"Instead of Mustafizur, had it been Litton Das oregon Soumya Sarkar, would they person done the aforesaid thing? They wouldn’t.”Calling the contention politically motivated, Haque said, “It is each inexpensive spiritual sentiment that politicians are playing.”Haque argued that solutions person existed successful the past.

“This is simply a satellite event. You privation each the countries successful the satellite to play. It has happened successful the past arsenic well. Earlier, points were forfeited. Here, the tricky happening is Bangladesh is playing each matches successful India. If they were playing fractional the matches successful Sri Lanka oregon determination else, that would person sufficed.”“We could springiness walkovers successful 2 matches and play the others, similar England did, similar West Indies did.

A batch of teams did that. But present the full hybrid happening has been done due to the fact that of information reasons.”Haque described the existent script arsenic farcical. “If India threatens that Mustafizur is successful the team, past helium volition beryllium there. But our squad is captained by Litton Das. Isn’t this a parody?”The seasoned head blamed election-driven authorities for the impasse.

“It’s what happens erstwhile immature politicians instrumentality over. You person elections successful West Bengal and Assam, truthful you play this governmental paper to get votes.

And you enactment an planetary lawsuit of World Cup stature into difficulty.”Haque said shifting matches to Sri Lanka would lick the issue.“If they tin determination it to Sri Lanka, it’s a win-win concern for everybody. If they can’t, I uncertainty whether Bangladesh volition travel to India to play this.”Asked astir the fiscal implications for Bangladesh, if the ICC doesn't perceive to BCB's request and Bangladesh authorities refuses to nonstop the squad to India.“Maybe it volition outgo america financially. But nationalist pridefulness is overmuch bigger than fiscal losses.”

Drawing a examination with past crises, Haque recalled the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, erstwhile helium was astatine helm of ACC.“You cannot comparison India-Pakistan relations with India-Bangladesh. It’s precise different. India and Bangladesh are similar brothers. It’s precise old. India came to play Test matches successful Bangladesh. BCCI played a large relation successful helping america getting the Test status.”He added, “The 2008 was overmuch much delicate than this, and we got retired of it. We got retired of it due to the fact that we had good, sane radical arsenic administrators of each 3 bodies.”“Now we don’t person that. We person a sports advisor who has ne'er held a cricket bat. He is simply a teacher and a revolutionary. What does helium attraction astir cricket? He is aft publicity and helium is determination lone for the adjacent 2 months.”