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- Updated: September 28, 2016
The issue of conflict of interest is once again set to dog the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with BCB directors having connections to franchise owners and the board allowing national selectors to be part of the franchises’ team management.
The Dhaka Dynamites franchise is owned by Beximco, where BCB president Nazmul Hassan is managing director of their pharmaceuticals unit and board director Ismail Haider Mallick is an executive.
Another BCB director Abdul Awal Chowdhury has been part of the Barisal Bulls ownership since 2015. It is unclear whether he is now the sole owner after the BCB imposed a life-ban on the franchise’s co-owner Rizwan Bin Farouq for his involvement in an altercation inside the Shere Bangla Stadium at the end of the Asia Cup final this year.
Kazi Inam Ahmed, another BCB director, is a director at Gemcon Group, which recently bought the Khulna franchise. Inam is chairman of the BCB’s marketing and commercial committee but it is the BPL governing council that takes decisions regarding the league’s marketing and commercial activities.
Mallick said such conflicts were common in Bangladesh cricket, with top Dhaka Premier League clubs having their officials in the BCB.
“Abahani plays in the Dhaka Premier League, where I am the general secretary of their cricket [committee],” he told ESPNcricinfo. “[Afzalur Rahman] Sinha bhai, Jalal …
