Faruque Ahmed, the newly-appointed president of Bangladesh Cricket Board, has said that his ‘first and foremost responsibility is to take cricket forward’.

Former national team captain Faruque Ahmed has been made president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

According to the BCB constitution, if the board president resigns, the existing directors of the cricket board will decide on their next course of action to choose the next president from the directors’ panel.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon has called a board of directors meeting at the Youth and Sports Ministry on Wednesday, where he is likely to announce his resignation from the post.

Meanwhile, with the BCB president missing, questions have been raised about who will attend the ICC’s virtual meeting on the board’s behalf.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has been in a limbo ever since the fall of the Awami League government with many board directors including president Nazmul Hassan Papon going into hiding.

Youth and Sports adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan made his first visit to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) headquarters on Monday noon, where he met with officials, staff, cricketers and had a discussion with former Bangladesh skipper Tamim Iqbal.

Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus has tendered his resignation as board director to the National Sports Council (NSC) today.

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Word around the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is that Nazmul Hassan Papon has informed one of the directors that he is in favour of resigning as board president. Many other directors, however, claimed to have no knowledge of the president's wish.

The BCB are understood to have requested the ICC to keep assessing the situation and have been granted additional time

Bangladesh spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed on Thursday said that the players have recovered from the effects of the chaotic situation in the country and are focusing on cricket.

The board of directors of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) might face a legitimacy crisis as they were elected under the 2017-amended BCB constitution, which entitled six top-flight Dhaka clubs to nominate two councillors each to vote, instead of the previous one-entity-one-vote system.

A group of organisers affiliated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called for the dissolving of incumbent executive committees of different sports federations in front of the National Sports Council today. 

The Youth and Sports Adviser has also asked BCB to explore the possibility of appointing an interim board president under ICC’s framework.

Bangladesh wicket-keeper batter Nurul Hasan Sohan has voiced his dissent about players entering politics during their playing careers. 

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was included in the Tigers’ 16-member squad for the upcoming Test tour of Pakistan despite Bangladesh Cricket Board sources claiming that the 37-year-old’s fitness for red-ball cricket would be taken into consideration before selection.

“Our job is to play cricket. The players, the coaching staff are all professionals. We are more focused on our matches than anything else,” Bangladesh ‘A’ coach Mizanur Rahman Babul told reporters in Mirpur on Thursday.

Security concern is a quickly growing issue in Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium's premises due to the presence of outsiders.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has fallen into uncertain times after the fall of the Awami League government, still quite a few board officials returned to work yesterday as the BCB like the rest of the country tried to return to some resemblance of normalcy.