Bangladesh’s sports advisor speaks on Faruque’s ouster as president of the BCB and calls it ‘performance-based’.
Bangladesh’s sports advisor Asif Mahmud lifts the lid on Faruque’s ouster.
Asif Mahmud, Bangladesh’s sports adviser, stated that after being informed of the decision, the ICC applauded the BCB’s leadership transition. The sports ministry dismissed Faruque Ahmed as its envoy, and the BCB’s board of directors chose Aminul Islam as the new president on Friday.
“We have properly contacted the ICC. The new president also worked in the ICC for a long time,” Asif said in a press briefing in Dhaka on Saturday. “There’s no communication gap. ICC knows the situation here, so they have welcomed the decision.”
In addition to being connected to anomalies in the sports ministry’s fact-finding committee report, Asif said that Faruque did not perform well during the nine months he was in charge. According to Asif, the sports ministry also took into account the no-confidence resolution against Faruque that was sent by eight BCB directors.
“We have seen in the report from the BPL’s fact-finding committee that there were instances of irregularity and negligence of responsibility,” he said. “We found Faruque’s link with them. Eight out of the nine BCB directors sent the NSC (the National Sports Council) a no-confidence motion.”
“I spoke to Faruque bhai personally. It is not like we removed him because we found corruption charges against him,” he said. “It is totally performance-based. Just like a selection committee wouldn’t pick an out-of-form player, it is the same for us.
“NSC has the jurisdiction to give or take a [BCB director] nomination. We didn’t remove the president. We took his directorship, which is why his presidency was gone. We nominated another director. The board followed the ICC guideline and BCB constitution to elect the next president.”