‘We have no one’: Bangladesh players ‘helpless’ after Sports Adviser blames them, BCB for T20 World Cup ouster

“The decision was made by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the cricketers. They themselves made sacrifices for the safety of the country’s cricket, for the safety of the people of the country. The role they played in upholding Bangladesh’s dignity will always be held as exemplary,” he said.

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This contradicts his previous comments, made on January 22, which said, “I am making it clear to everyone: the decision not to play the World Cup in India, considering security concerns, is the government’s.”

“That was funny,” a player said, under conditions of anonymity, told The Daily Star. Another player said, “You heard what he said. What can we say? We have no one. We are helpless. We don’t know what to say since we had no hand in this [World Cup exclusion]. Many things don’t need to be verbalised to be understood. We didn’t get any help from any side.”

Nazrul’s statement created a stir at the BCB office as well, with some officials taking exception.

“He [Nazrul] had said something different before and is saying something else now. He himself had declared previously that the team will not go,” a BCB director was quoted as saying. “It was never the BCB’s or the players’ decision to make, so, there is no scope of shifting the responsibility.”

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