Mohammad Mithun the new CWAB president following a resounding victory against fellow opponent Salim Shahed.
Mohammad Mithun elected new CWAB president.
After winning the election held in Dhaka on Thursday, Mohammad Mithun was elected as the new president of the Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB). Salim Shahed, the acting CWAB convenor since May of this year, lost to Mithun, who received 154 votes, according to election commissioner Iftekhar Rahman. 34 votes went to Shahed.
Despite being founded in 2004, CWAB has not had elections in its twenty-one years of existence. Together with general secretary Debabrata Paul, former Bangladesh captain and Awami League MP Naimur Rahman served as CWAB president for 11 years. Before Shahed was appointed as the temporary leader of an ad hoc committee earlier this year, the two resigned from their positions.
“We will try to solve everything through negotiation,” Mithun said shortly after the election results were announced. “If that’s not possible, as I have come here to protect the rights of the cricketers, I have to speak for them. The BCB is our guardian. We can go to our guardian with whatever demands that we have. I hope the BCB sees those demands positively.”
Nurul Hasan is the vice president, and Shahriar Hossain, a former batter, is the senior vice president. The new members of the executive committee are Akbar Ali, Shamsur Rahman, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rumana Ahmed, Khaled Mashud Pilot, Imrul Kayes, Irfan Sukkur, and Najmul Hossain Shanto.
The World Cricketers’ Association, formerly known as FICA, is affiliated with CWAB. The CWAB’s reform at the time was one of the demands made by Bangladesh’s top cricket players during their indefinite strike in 2019, which brought it into the public eye. Elections were never held in the five years that followed, despite promises by CWAB leaders Naimur and Paul.